October 21st, 2006
Ghada Amer was born in Cairo in 1963, she now lives and works in New York. I came across her wonderful work at the local art gallery last weekend. Viewing Amer’s hand-embroidered paintings, with their delicate traceries of stray threads, involves a visual shift, as what appears to be a mass of abstract lines gradually comes into focus as highly erotic figures, displayed in a repetitive pattern. The work refuses to bow to the puritanical elements of both Western and Islamic culture, and what could be called “institutionalised feminism” with its own persistent myth of feminine virtue. She doesn’t have her own site, but you can view some of her work here and here.
October 20th, 2006
In your face, political, art by Hans Bernhard, his everyday philosophy is best described in the Ubermorgen slogan: “it’s different because it is fundamentally different!”. His funny and controversial plastic man series (pictured above) can be viewed here. (via).
October 20th, 2006
LA based Lisa Boyle is a model perhaps best known for her appearances in Playboy magazine and its various Special Editions. She is nowadays a professional photographer, shooting content for her own website, as well as freelance work for various publications. (via).
October 20th, 2006
Beautiful beautiful detailed drawings by Russian artist Nikolay Fomin who depicts Russian fairy tales in an erotic light.
October 19th, 2006
Beautiful surreal oil paintings by New York based artist Jonathan Weiner. (via).
October 19th, 2006
Interesting sculpture designs by Mark Ricketts.
October 19th, 2006
Dale Lazarov and Steve McIsaac are the naughty men behind STICKY, a hardcover collection of erotic tales of man-on-man carnality and sweetness (written by Dale Lazarov and drawn by Steve MacIsaac).
October 18th, 2006
Beautiful work by Los Angeles based fine art photographer Freyda Miller. I especially love love love the Naked Trees series. (via).
October 18th, 2006
Sexy glamour photography by Milan based photographer Nicola Ranaldi.
October 17th, 2006
Robert Zeller is a fine artist who has used his latest series as a comment on Two Western concepts. That of the nude female as an icon for consumerism, and secondly a sense of American landscape, in this case, the American Shopping Mall. His works haunting with their use of cold open space, and the female form placed in these environments tells a story of vulnerability. His work technically combines “a version of 19th century figure modeling with 16th century perspective techniques.” He also has some nice portraits and sketches on his site.
October 17th, 2006
Some beautiful imagery by New York based photographer Manolo Campion. I love the simplicity of the site too, his photographs simply broken up by his models names. Via our friends at Lost At E Minor.
October 17th, 2006
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!).
October 16th, 2006
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.
October 16th, 2006
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.
October 15th, 2006
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.
