Another Tales Of Princess is the site of Japanese photographer Ken-ichi Murata. His images of Japanese women dressed as school girls, bondage and barren scenes are so disturbing that I found myself digging around for more! (go figure!).
Zhang Huan, Buddhist performance artist and sculpture. His work at times odd and somewhat disturbing is always fascinating. Check out some of the interesting things he gets himself up to at his superb website which showcases his work from as far back as 1993.
Riichi Yamaguchi is a photographer from Tokyo. His work has a sense of detachment to it, and almost loneliness. Perhaps the settings remind me of a flat that I didn’t like living in when I was younger. Much of his content involves numerous naked humans lying on mass in one area within a living space. What you see doesn’t make sense in terms of a living arrangement, but the images really hit home to me about detachments we can have from each other and the spaces we interact with. Unfortunately Riichi doesn’t have his own website, but you can check out some his work at Projekt30, or Artists Space.
I unknowingly first discovered Inka Essenhigh through my housemate, she has a print of her “Green Wave” – 2002 hanging in our kitchen and before now I had never gotten around to asking her about it. Her work is quite trippy, with a beautiful sense of motion and it’s really interesting to see how her work is inspired, I can see a bit of Ancient Grecian Art woven into some of his paintings. I found her series “People that do weird things to their bodies” highly amusing. I hope you do too.
Jennifer Zackin is predominantly an installation artist originally from Connecticut in the US. Her site is aesthetically gorgeous. Personally I fell in love with her “Wonder Woman Cosmos” installation which I’ve posted an image about above. Her work is pretty ecclectic, and retro at the same time. It made me have a few flashbacks of playing “Barrel of Monkeys” with the boys next door as a little girl.
White Women, a minimalist series by James McKenna.
OK, I’m not really sure what is going on at this site, but it kept me amused for AGES. Ovarium is an interactive art site, which allows you to pop up multiple movies on the screen, some a bit sexy, some a bit weird, some a bit wrong. The coolest thing about it is setting up the different images running side by side. Very interesting indeed.
Czech Photographer, (born 1935) Jan Saudek is a living legend. Famous for his signature hand-coloring style, his pictures are sometimes funny, sometimes a little rude but always bold and beautiful.
Maxwell Spencer Dupain (4th April 1911 – 27th July 1992) was a well known Australian photographer. He is best known for his work in photographing Australians.
Check out Suzannah Sinclair’s sexy retro inspired paintings with female figures lifted from old Playboy magazines and combined with rainbow patterns. She doesn’t seem to have an official site, but you can see some of her work here and here.
Polanoid are attempting to build the biggest Polaroid picture collection on the planet.
Master Photographer Herb Ritts (August 13, 1952 – December 26, 2002).
UK Artist Sue Williams has a lot of dark and intense things to say about sex, which she wraps up in her paintings and drawings of dark figures discovering their sexuality.
Engaging and provoking, its sure to stimulate.
Super slick work by French Fashion Photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Will Kramer is the digital artist mastermind behind Earthcurves, his artistic website showcasing his haunting and emotive imagery. His site also includes a couple of tutorials which explains how he manages the beautiful effects within his artwork. Well worth a browse.
UPLOADit is a simple random gallery experiment which allows you to upload an image to the site (created by the boys at Stolen). PhoneBin is similar but the images being presented are submitted directly from mobile phones. Both project sites are totally uncencored which makes for some pretty nasty imagery being uploaded. Nice ideas though.
I am a colour whore, and thus Chiho Aoshima, Tokyo artist and sculpture, truly appeals to my sense of aesthetic. Her imagery compromises of computer generated imagery, which features nymph like girls, in colourful violent environments, involving insects and reptiles. Dark in content, but spectacularly bright in constuct. Very beautiful.
The one thing that is sometimes quite frustrating about running this site, is finding an artist that you fully fall in love with through a few snippets about them that you find on the net, and then sadly discover that they don’t have their own dedicated site to showcase their work.
Lisa Yuskavage is one such artist. Her paintings of busty blonde women in surreal lighted settings are nothing short of breathtaking, but she doesn’t have all her work compiled on one site.
My fav piece of info so far regarding Yuskavage has been the following from Contemporary Art Project… and I quote…
She is working in the minefield of male sexual fantasies seen from a woman’s perspective. “Kathy” is a friend of the artist who has been the model for the artist’s blonde bombshell, a character she calls “Motherfucker”. One of the five “bad habits” (Socialclimber, Asspicker, Headshrinker, Foodeater) she personifies in her paintings. “My work has always been about things in myself that I feel incredibly uncomfortable with and embarrassed by. I exploit what’s dangerous and scares me about myself.”
I love this girl. Check out the following sites to see bits (no pun intended) of Lisa’s beautiful work and information about the artist, here and here.
Very strange work by Dutch Artist Pieter Zandvliet. A clash of thick and thin lines, crazy colours and bizzare subject matter make for really interesting results.
