Konstantin Bessmertny, Artist

Artist Website

https://www.konstantinbessmertny.com/recent-works

Ellen Gallagher, Artist

Artnet. source link

http://www.artnet.com/artists/ellen-gallagher/deluxe-portfolio-of-60-OUempBKExtaCvrz5996RJg2

"The artist "whites out" such features as lips, hair, or wigs with yellow plastacine. These then stand out from the surface as a kind of sculptural relief, lovingly formed elements that read as a voluptuous ornamentation. They accentuate precisely the racial attributes the products were intended to diminish. The malleable putty is striated and carved in ways that recall African tribal art, although that's not the exclusive cultural reference." From article.com. Link here.

"I scan pages from advertisements about control: acne, unruly hair, corns, bunions, and asthma. These all have particular class connotations, and I remember hearing, as a child, that you got asthma from cockroaches, from enclosed spaces. Constriction is interesting to me as the loss of control of something as elemental as your breath. Corns and bunions have something specific about them too, something so black, that is funny to me. But they have a specificity that is not about race but rather about skin and about being on your feet all the time. Just like the ads have their own material history, plasticine was used for stop-action animation to suggest motion and also to make models. These structures are built out of whimsy but are also very tectonic." From Ellen Gallagher Talks. Link here.

From db artmag. Link here.

Joe Rudko, Artist

Torn Photographs (can inspired other materials such as cardboard and newspaper). 

joerudko.com

Two Moon July - David Byrne Reports from LA

Robert Morris, Artist

Blind Time V
Source link here. 

Lynn Hoppe, Artist

Rose   ~ oil pastel, derwent drawing pencil, graphite on old paper.Source link here.  

La Huy, Artist

In the foreground, Vietnamese national newspapers rolled into wax turns become scrolls of a warped devotional nature. In this room, I enjoy the witty mixture of ordinary food and daily information presented alongside lengthy religious texts that are by no means fast to consume or disposable and quickly forgotten.

Source is Cristina Nual Art.
Link here.

Rosie Leventon, Artist

PERSIAN / HANDWRITING 2008

text drawing

Part of an ongoing series of drawings using text - in this case Middle Eastern text - in different ways. This one is a Persian newspaper overlaid with handwriting in English.

Materials: Ink, graphite on newspaper.

Dimensions: 58 x 75 cm

Source link here. 

The Newspaper Series I

Source is The Keystone Design Union.  Link here. 

Mark Powell, Artist

Source link here. 

Kim Rugg, Artist

KIM RUGG  
A SOLITARY RED BALLOON DRIFTING SKYWARDS
NEWSPRINT,  THE GUARDIAN
60 X 38 CM
2008

Source is the future can wait.  Link here. 

Christian Holstad, Artist

"Christian Holstad’s erased newsprint photographs, known collectively as the Erasurehead series, began as a way of killing time. Working as a waiter in a restaurant after graduation from art college, Holstad began to erase the images in newspapers while waiting for customers, finding that the action of rubbing out became a way of probing the complex depths of each image. Erasing is a kind of negative drawing: its marks are gestural, reminiscent of the physical action of the artist’s hand and arm, and yet their residue is a kind of blankness. Photographs in newspapers are used to widen the implications of the stories they accompany through the willful ambiguity of imagery: they say more than they mean."


Image and text source link here.

Alina Filipoiu, Artist

You can see more work by this artist on Behance.  Link here.

Lauren DiCioccio, Artist

I found this artist on RESPECT.  Link here.

Antonio Vega Macotela

"To say that Antonio Vega Macotela’s first solo exhibition in the U.S. speaks softly is to miss the point. The Mexican artist’s spare installation at Steve Turner Contemporary highlights acts of communication that occur just below the surface of everyday life, in particular a distorted writing system used by Mexican drug traffickers, and the secret dreams of soldiers. The results are intriguing, but in the end, perhaps a little too quiet.
Macotela placed ads in Mexican newspapers using an anamorphic writing system: the letters in the ads can only be read from an extreme angle. In the exhibition, the papers are pinned to the wall, so reading the ads involves kneeling (cushions are provided), and pressing your body uncomfortably against the vertical surface. Macotela succeeds in manipulating the viewer into a penitent posture, but the reward for our submission is slight. The messages, still rather difficult to read, are all versions of the same sentence in Spanish, translated: “Here, this way even, I murmur.” There is no secret to be learned, only the recognition that another level of communication exists beneath the public babble of the news.
The show’s sole video work is similarly frustrating: a series of closeups of lips mouthing inaudible words. We’re told the speakers are soldiers in the Mexican military recounting their dreams, but why can’t the dreams be spoken aloud? Are they too horrific? Too personal? Like the newspapers, the video draws us in, only to shut us out. On a certain level, this makes sense: exposing the underground means that it’s no longer underground. But is it enough simply to know it’s there?"

Source is LA Times. Link here.