Posts tagged with "art"

“No Signal” By Gaks

Check out new “24K” animated designs by Gaks on Behance.

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Art: Space Sneakers By Ghica Popa

Check out these dope Space Sneaker illustrations by artist Ghica Popa.  You can find a lot more designs over on ghicapopa.com.

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Art Exhibit: Kazuki Takamatsu’s “Japanese Ideology of Puberty”

Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu will be presenting his first solo exhibit at the Corey Helford Gallery in California.  Check out some of the press release below:

On Saturday, April 13, 2013, Corey Helford Gallery presents the “Japanese Ideology of Puberty,” featuring the light and shadow paintings of Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu, his first solo show with the gallery.

Takamatsu’s paintings of contemporary awakenings are a catharsis of tonalities. “I use computer graphics-digital-and painting-analog-to make a work and it indicates the emotion of boys and girls metaphorically,” says Takamatsu of his painting method. Through the computer graphic technique of depth mapping, three-dimensional space is digitally visualized in a series of multiple depth plains. Takamatsu hand paints the emotions of his teenage subjects modeled on deep computer visual space. “Each graduation from surface to depth means the distance and there is no light and shadow. The color of black and white are metaphor for truth and evil, race and religion.” With acrylic black and white paints and gouaches, Takamatsu renders his girls with a method mediated on social fields of sexual identity, depth-fields mapping emotions engaging with a “systematic society.”

“Japanese Ideology of Puberty” will exhibit twelve oil paintings painted in acrylic and gouache, focusing on the emotive depth of coming of age. Of his painting, “The Flu” depicting a virus complicating life and transmitted by people, he visualizes metamorphosis. “The information, society and people always keep changing,” says Takamatsu of his ephemeral figures’ world, a vibrant, noir mapping of the rites of youth, where growing-up is a surreal awakening, a beauty transcending technocracy.

The opening reception will take place on Saturday, April 13 at Corey Helford Gallery. The reception is open to the public, and the exhibition will be on view through May 11, 2013.

Video: “Rap Quotes” Street Art Project by Jay Shells

Pretty dope idea.  Jay Shells tracks the streets mentioned in rhymes, goes to the spot and adds a little street art in the form of a sign.  Hopefully this project becomes bigger in the future.

Read the article on Animal NY.

A$AP Rocky By Terby Wonder

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Video: Fabolous x Brooklyn Nets Sneaker Art Competition

Fabolous hosted a Sneaker Art competition at Brooklyn’s L.I.U. campus last week.  Several Nets players made an appearance at the charitable event, which was pretty cool on Loso’s part.  He’s been riding with the Nets since day 1 of their Brooklyn rebirth, so this is probably just one of many collabos we’ll see in the future.

Short Film: Miami Nights (Rime x The Seventh Letter x Art Basel)

This is a pretty cool short flick featuring Rime and The Seventh Letter crew.  They linked up with Klughaus Gallery and Live From The Streets to record footage of their fun in Miami for Art Basel 2012.

[Via The305]

Art Exhibit: Allison Renshaw “Better than Candy”

Mirus Gallery in San Francisco will present its first solo show by Allison Renshaw.  Read part of the press release below:

Mirus Gallery is pleased to announce its fourth exhibition and first solo show, Better than Candy by Southern California-based artist, Allison Renshaw. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Northern California and will highlight her body of work from 2009 to the present with approximately 20 mixed media works and drawings. The opening reception for Better than Candy will be held on March 9 from 6pm – 10pm. The exhibition will be on view through April 6, 2013.

In Better than Candy, Allison Renshaw presents a selected body of work marked by themes of convergence, both in material and style. Renshaw’s artworks are a dizzying confluence of mediums and imagery so various they provoke the viewer into a prolonged exchange as the eye roams the canvas piece-by-piece, element-by-element. While the multiplicity of shape, color and pattern is undeniable, there is also an internal rhythm to these works that evoke the controlled chaos of jazz and experimental music. Not surprisingly, critics have compared Renshaw’s work to Wassily Kandinsky’s “abstract music paintings” while also noting the influence of Pop art and Surrealism.

Mirus Gallery can be found at:

540 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA
94105

For more info on the exhibition, stay tuned to MirusGallery.com.  For more work by Allison, visit AllisonRenshaw.com.

Art: Kendrick Lamar by Richie Pope

Follow Richie’s Tumblr blog for more of his illustrations, including more recent sketches of Kendrick.

(Source: richiepope)

Artists On Tumblr: Max Capacity

If you’re a fan of retro pixelated art and throwback fuzzy pictures that bring back memories of you trying to stare at blocked XXX channels in the 90s, then you should check out Max Capacity’s photo manipulations and creations.  His Tumblr and Flickr are pure eyecandy for retro lovers.

Also check out his online store for tees and more.