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19 November 2007
12 November 2007
Deth P. Sun
Deth P. Sun's work has a magical quality like Halloween for a child. Check it out at his official site and buy a piece here.
05 November 2007
02 November 2007
Adrian Tomine: Optic Nerve
Adrian Tomine is an amazing cartoonist with a long histroy behind him. If you're not familiar with him, you should definately check out his work. If you're only familiar with his covers of the New Yorker, check out more about him here.
Jay Chou: Crazy by the Letters
Jay Chou's book "Crazy by the Letters" is a delightful romp through various mental illnesses applied to children using the alphabet! The book reminds me of Edward Gorey's alphabetic murder & death tales.
Certainly Chou is influenced by the work of Gorey and also Charles Addams.
Worth the 15 dollars for anyone who appreciates this genre of cartoonist.
31 October 2007
Hung Liu : Painter
Hung Liu has to be one of my favorite painters right now.
Born in China in the 1940s, Liu came of age during Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. As a young woman, Liu was sent to labor in a remote village and learn a distorted account of Chinese history as part of her "reeducation." Four years later, she trained as an artist in Beijing, where she was taught to paint in the Social Realist style so that she would be able to serve the state by making colossal mural paintings of Mao and other prominent members of the Communist Party.
In 1984, after years of working as an artist and teacher in China, Liu immigrated to the United States and began making paintings informed by a wider perspective on her nation's history. Her work was enhanced when, during a 1990 visit to China, Liu discovered several hundred photographs from the time of the Cultural Revolution. These photographs have formed a basis for much of her work since. Personal photos from this era are rare because families often destroyed images that might be used as evidence that they were not proletarians.
Here are some interesting links.
28 October 2007
Ray Caesar: Digital Illustrations
Ray Caesar is an artist from Toronto, with gallery representation in Philadelphia. He creates his images in the program Maya. Here's a little note about his method
My work is entirely digital, from its creation to its method of printing. I create models in a three dimensional modeling software and cover these models with painted and manipulated photographic textures that wrap around them like a map on a globe. Each model is then set up with a invisible skeleton that allows me to pose and position the figure in its three dimensional environment. Digital lights and cameras are added with shadows and reflections simulating that of a real world.
Here's what Caesar has to say about the inspiration behind his method.
For 17 years I worked in the Art and Photography Department of The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto. I worked in a department that documented such things as child abuse, surgical reconstruction, psychology and animal research. They were years that I will never forget, years of witnessing great sadness but also great miracles.
I often awake in the middle of the night and realize I have been wondering the hallways and corridors of that giant hospital. As I lay there in the dark, I struggle to remember the fading words of those that still haunt my memories of so many years ago. It is so clear to me that this is the birthplace of all my imagery.
It is appropriate that I now live my dreams for those that didn't get a chance to live theirs.... to do otherwise would be a sin.
Ray Caesar
30 September 2007
Edward Gorey
Check out the Doubtful Guest exhibit if you happen to be on Cape Cod!
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