Daydreaming in her own mischievous but comical world, French artist Amandine Urruty’s busy graphite drawings are filled with strangely humorous characters just hanging out.
Featured Artist Friday: Nicola Yeoman
Predominately working within the installation art form, Nicole Yeoman’s classic blend of skewed perspective and dope photography make for some crazy cool art pieces.
Featured Artist Friday: Chris Labrooy’s Twisted “Tales of Auto Elasticity”
Based in the UK, graphic designer and artist Chris Labrooy shows a bit of the impossible by twisting and bending pickup trucks into positions that’s something straight out of a Yoga class. Titled “Tales of Auto Elasticity”, Labrooy takes the idea of the custom car to a totally different level in this latest digital illustration series.
Featured Artist Friday: Sebastien Millon’s “Turbid Stew of Crockery”
Thought to have work that lacks truth, vision, and any artistic integrity at all, Sebastien Millon sure does a good job toying with these bears, lemurs, and rabbits. With a comedic cluster of instances and one-liner situations, Millon and his critter friends are a fun reminder of how goofy we all look sometimes.
Star Wars Comes To Earth: Thomas Dagg
Imagine this. You’re driving in the car, cruising the open freeway, listening to a newfound jam, and then you see the Millennium Falcon execute a full aerial barrel roll right outside the window. How crazy would that be? Well it seems Canadian photographer Thomas Dagg has wanted this to happen since he was a kid. And eventually just took thing into his own hands by making it real.
Featured Artist Friday: David Zinn’s Chalk and Charcoal Characters
Since 2001, artist and illustrator David Zinn has cruised the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan, creating these funny yet temporary cartoon characters with nothing but chalk and charcoal. Improvising each piece to its spot and making use of found objects, street fixtures, and stair-steps to create trompe l’oeil illusions, these little monsters are eye-catching.
Featured Artist Friday: Augustine Tellez
For this weeks Featured Artist Friday, instead of finding a different artist or a new exhibit from around the world, I decided to look in my own backyard and find an up-and-coming artist to show everyone. So for today, Augustine Tellez is that artist.
Featured Artist Friday: Os Gemeos
Created on the Granville Island near Vancouver, these gigantic pieces are not only some incredible pieces of artwork, but officially their biggest to date. Covering the entire 70-foot tall structure, these things are massive.
Featured Artist Friday: Richard Silver – Time Slice
Time Slice is an ongoing series of photographs by Richard Silver that explores iconic buildings and monuments and how they change in appearance from day into night. With a combination of 36 photos shot throughout the day and night, Silver then takes all of the layers and puts them together to show the progression of each location.
Hitting The Streets: Art by JPS
Greatly influenced by pop culture icons and the urban environment, UK street artist JPS brings us some new and fun street art to enjoy.
Fiona Tang and her Animal Murals are Real “Beasts”
Vancouver-based artist Fiona Tang and her large-scale murals are some real “beasts” when it comes to making these animals literally jump off the wall.