Blood Red and Bittersweet

likeafieldmouse:

Erick Swenson - Untitled (2004)

“Inspired by museum exhibits, set design, film special effects, and model making, Swenson crafts every minute detail of his tableaux, creating simulated, highly romantic scenes that often exceed the ideals of nature.

Spanning more than 7 meters, Swenson’s Untitled is a sub-zero oasis of mythical blizzard. Styrofoam snow and polyurethane ice engulf expertly moulded cobblestones, fabricating a spectacle of wintery Bavariana fairytale.

Within the gathering drifts, a fallen deer strains against death in a sublime allegorical moment.”

A selection of works by: Matt Huynh (above images from his tumblr) - 

From the top

1. A display panel from the ‘Graphic: The exquisite Comic’ exhibition in Sydney. (Photos by Gabe Clarke)

2. A window decal based on another of his works called Chasing Blind, at the papermill gallery. 

3. A silk screen print created for Phish’s Charlotte NC show in collaboration with NYC’s Axelle Fine Arts.

4. Wailing Organs - A Choir in Disharmony. 

Riikka Sormunen Illustrations, pattern intense and reminiscent of the work of Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Riikka hails from Helsinki and lives in Berlin. Her work sort of blows my mind. The colours are soft, warm and harmonious, and her figures always seem to tell a story. (via iloveillustration)

Warsaw born, NY based Artist Justine Kurland’s Of Woman Born series.

Justine Kurland: Of Woman Born February 24 – April 7, 2007 December 8, 2006: Mitchell-Innes & Nash presented the first New York exhibition in three years for photographer Justine Kurland.

On view in the Chelsea gallery from February 24 through April 7, 2007, the exhibition unveils Kurland’s new series of color photographs of mothers and their young children. To photograph this series, Kurland drove across the country while living in a van with her one-year old son. She began in New York City and made her way across the southern U.S. toward the Pacific Northwest. She stopped at some 45 locations, including national parks, beaches and campgrounds, to take photographs of other mothers and children that she met along the way. The exhibition’s title is taken from an essay by Adrienne Rich about the realities of motherhood. Kurland uses the natural landscape as a stage for these photographs, constructing an optimistic fantasy about living in harmony with nature and finding faith in humankind, even as the world becomes increasingly unsettling. The images use as points of reference the Gnostic narrative of the fall of man from heaven to earth, and the search for the metaphorical Garden of Eden. The resulting pictures of nudes posed on beaches, foggy coastlines and under waterfalls give this timeless subject matter an otherworldly quality. Works reference Pictorialist photography, early 19th century landscape photographs intended to lure settlers to the American West, and even Arthur Rackham’s turn-of-the-century fairy tale illustrations. Justine Kurland was born in 1969 and lives in New York City. Her photographs have been exhibited at museums and galleries in the U.S. and internationally, including the Institute of Contemporary Photography, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney Museum, all in New York, and the Shirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. She received her B.F.A from School of Visual Arts, NY in 1996, and her M.F.A. from Yale University in 1998. She is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. - via Mitchell-Innes & Nash in Chelsea.

Flourescent Mixed Media Animals by Louise McNaught, an artist based in London. 

McNaught creates these wonderfully colourful paintings using a variety of media including paint,ink, pencil and different backdrops. She uses a neon colour palette to help translate the luminescent and spiritual/ethereal godlike nature of the animals she includes.  creates mixed-media paintings of animals and insects using a wide variety of paint, pencil, ink, and backdrops that vary from traditional canvas to celestial star charts. She has a facebook, and a website, and her works are available through degree art. (via thisiscolossal)

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Valentina De’ Mathà.  

Silence.
308 white bodies that merge with the ground in a random order, as if nothing had a logical meaning.
All bodies were born from a single array as we all were born from Mother Earth.
I chose a neutral color, white, symbolizing a collective identity rather than individual.
I chose paper because it is organic, like the human body it goes back to the earth that saw its birth.
The silence after the earthquake of L’Aquila

 

http://www.valentinadematha.com/

London based Illustrator Spiros Halaris’s range of fashion illustration, with bold blocks of colour and feminine delicate linework is simply lovely! (via vectroave)

Los Angeles Photographer Amanda Charchian’s creative artistic photography. (via vectroave)

I dont know who these belong to and was unable to find out - but they are beautiful! 

(via freecocaine)

Artistic Photography by Minneapolis Photographer Lauren Treece. 

These Photographs are seriously gorgeous. There are several others in her series all of which seem (to me) to focus on wonder, death and birth, and a somewhat strange connection to the universe. These photographs speak to us on a primal level and on a futuristic one, while emotionally stirring our sensibilities and understanding of our place in nature. (via vectroave)