Jackson Ernest Wise
With this kid, there’s no need to bother paraphrasing. From the caves themselves…
The value of ‘the image’ is at an all time low. and its going to be even lower tomorrow, much like the value of money. The role of texture in the history of representation has become my main concern and reasoning for this visual crisis. It seems our materialistic nature increases in harmony with the rate at which the quality of every day images is improving, and so by exploring texture I believe we can visually explore and understand the current concept of value.
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VENTRAL IS GOLDEN
Ventral is truly a giant worth reckoning with.
A healthy abundance of titillating creations on the website, Ventral Is Golden maintains mountains in a multi-coloured birds-nest of collage, inks, geometry and the magic eye.
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The zine is indeed a medium worthwhile in itself. Celebrate with Ventral. Suck it in. Hold your breathe. Taste the death. Release. Sweet tang.
NADIA CHALABI
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to find Nadia’s Experiments with Pattern and Colour on her blog.
Subsequent to having delved through her archived content, it’s safe to say her work will leave an everlasting impression, what with the fruit-pastille tones for clarity and variety of mediums on offer, Nadia’s talents instigate a compelling discomfort towards the familiar, tugging our shirt sleeves and sticking into our imaginations to filter through her creative process and into our dreams.
GUPPOLOGY
Sounds like some sort of ideological statement in reference to a state of mind related to astrology….right?
The dood underSTANDS textures like no other. Mr.Guppy appears is a well versed multi-faceted artist of sorts. From speech cut ups to screen-prints, typographical - related studies within the home or group pursuits collectively working together in analyzing form to help further an understanding of textures in a multi-mediumistic process.
Just digg.
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luke jinks
It was in the basement of the Here Gallery (Bristol) when my eyes were apprehended by Jinks’ bold, distinctive use of colour and immediately developed a persistent desire to see more and more and more.
Adhering to the self-initiated brief of “not using more than three colours”, his pictures depict time-periods of native iconography with a healthy does of mythological tendencies, irregardless of nationality.
What with the use of stocked body frames and a flat 2d form supplanting the 3d reality of us all, being lucky enough to wander though his life is enough of a treat for anyone..
Images above taken from the exhibition recently taken down by Here Gallery.
August 16th sees the release of Tezcatlipoca and we are honoured and lucky enough for Luke to have created such beautiful artwork for the ugly.
Poster to come dead soon…..as in NOW.
SUZI KEMP
Suzi Kemp is an illustrator currently residing amongst those empty shells you find between the pebbles of Brighton Beach. Next time you’re wandering THAT shore, pick up and put one in your pocket to adorn a fellow filaments window-shelf on the walk to your nest with four walls and a goblet of sunlight hanging from ceiling.
Having worked on found materials and an array of mediums, Suzi maintains a unique eye for observation and is keen to document (and play with) her own perceptions of subcultural identities through a vehicle of cognitions and circumstance, whilst ensuring the viewer cannot fail to do the same. With this in mind, Suzi’s imagery imbeds her juxtaposed choice of colour palettes into our nature of playing, rewriting our present interpretation of cultural texts with a naive sleight of hand billowing through the sands of childhood.
Martin Ernstsen
Subsequent to venturing beyond the high-level security of Konstfack in Stockholm, Martin was hard at work gluing the pages of his bold, 3-coloured concertina epic depiction of a story he had written. A mail delivery frog is forced to adventure into dangerous territories and leave his native and safe-haven of Bottomland Swamp..
Kodok is the name of our hero, in case you were wondering..
Martin’s painstaking efforts towards completing the above project are truly outstanding, I believe he’ll be making the book available to the public soon so keep an eye for an update from his website.
Having been published by Jippi Comics (Jim Woodring, Jason) in Oslo, Ernstsen is self publishing through the imprint Salmiak Comics, whose etymology I am told from the illustrative storyteller, is completely unrelated to these sweet treats. The images below were lifted from his website and include many of the Jippi and self-published material, visit his shop and support a true contemporary, comic book artist.
Charles Hamilton was raised in Harlem, New York and lives by ‘The Super Sonic Philosophy’. Explain? Ok…
– “‘Sonic’ represents sound and ‘hedgehog’ represents living underground, so he is Sonic because he “Buries himself in the Sound”
Consider his musical outbursts of creativity compounded with the above philosophy and we can’t help but throw him some tidy diggs for DO-ing…
Love Love Love.
(60 plays)COVERED.
http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/ is the bang-bang.
So you know how the true essence behind every ‘new’ creation is a re-appropriation of the past, a way of empowering our present selves in an act of stabilizing a foundation of sense on our own grounds, outside of our parents culture? Right…Covered embellish on this idea ten-fold, asking comic book artists and illustrators to reinterpret classic comic book sleeves…AH! Such a great idea, and as a by-product of this process, the blog is quickly growing as a solid archive of hard-to-find comics, perfect for people new to comics to dip their toes into…Time to digg the greats, such as John Romita Sr, Bob Oksner, Alex Wagner, Jack Kirby, Joe Kubert and many more contemporary artists as well!
PLEASE venture through and click the link already!
ESTHER STOCKER
Fumbling through flip-books is always a joyous past-time but the internet allows magical aesthetics to land in your lap without a predetermined path to the finish line, thank you for the internet CERN. Playing with the structure of lines, ESTHER STOCKER assembles immaterial visions of a textual context in correlative juxtaposition of her final output. Stocker’s astonishingly unique eye and mind truly adheres to the nature of fiction within our confined imaginations of the Real.
Images above were exhibited at the South London Gallery in London, CCNOA in Brussels, Galerie Im Taxipalais in Innsbruck and the AR/GE Kunst Galerie Museum of Bozen.
Please click her name to peruse the minimal constructs of her website and let the pleasure be yours.
