:: 395 Flatbush ::

It seemed not too long ago that I was slugging it out in Brooklyn, dusting away at dust bunnies that never seemed to go away and meeting the colorful hodge-podge of denizens that would make up New York City.

Well, we survived and this is proof of it! Despite the trauma, it was a great experience and yes, I do kinda miss those persistent dust bunnies :P

:: floating babies ::

IF and when I make my millions, I want one of these baby photograms that remind me of Nirvana's album cover!




New York based artist Adam Fuss has been creating unique images with a simple process that completely eliminates the camera – a photogram. Dependent upon the physical qualities of the actual object placed on light-sensitive paper and the length of its exposure to light Fuss has created stunning abstractions and poignant compositions from such materials as babies in water, the trail of snakes across a surface, sunflowers , rabbits and their entrails and light moving in space.

:: not for the faint of heart ::

Saw this artist's work at the Scope Art Fair in NYC last year - Jordan Eagles is a NYC based artist who suspends, encases and permanently preserves animal blood in plexiglass and UV resin. Like a scene out of a gory b-grade horror flick, Eagle's works can make you nauseous and mesmerized all at once. It's like driving by a car wreck, you don't wanna look, but you can't help it... morbid but interesting.

In his own words:
"This technique is designed to retain the blood’s natural colors and textures and to expose its finite details. When lit, the works become more translucent, cast shadows, and project a glow onto the wall behind them. This effect reveals multiple layers of organic material floating in clear resin and makes the works appear as if they are illuminated from the inside. For the blood-lit environments, I use overhead projectors to shine and enlarge patterns from translucent blood panels into spaces. The color photographs document models covered in blood light. The blood light abstracts their bodies and appears as new layers of skin, epidermal diseases, tattoos, and natural birthmarks. The materials and luminosity in this new body of work relate to themes of corporeality, mortality, spirituality, and science—regenerating the blood as sublime."

Vampire Bill and Vampire Eric would be big time collectors of his work... and might even prove useful in case of emergencies or a 'blood famine'..haha!

Jordan's work is currently on show in "Re-Creation", Ogilvy's debut exhibition at its new office, The Chocolate Factory

:: Technicolor dreams... ::

Brooklyn based artist Jeremy Earhart creates trippy fluorescent/black light sculptures that border on rave party/kitsch/creative genius! Doesn't hurt that they're really pretty as well.

In his own words:

"My work feeds on symbols culled from the annals of Young America, allegorical religious imagery. By taking these symbols out of their original context and layering them together my work creates an arena for debate, personal contemplation and escape from our current socio-political condition. It also questions what these images mean while exploring how they are interpreted and/or rethought within our contemporary context."

Jeremy is represented by Goff + Rosenthal Gallery in NYC.

:: geek chic ::

First blog entry and we're going geek!

Here are some interactive digital artworks/projects that I find rather intriguing. I like how the use of technology brings another dimension to your experience of art - it's kinda like how Jeff Koon's blow up dog came to life in "Night at the Museum II". I'm sure that at some point in our lives, we all had that moment where we wished that an art work would come to life and interact with us. (or maybe that's just me - I always wondered what it'd be like to have a conversation with Mona Lisa!)


Cinimod Studios is a cross-discipline practice based in London specializing in the fusion of architecture and lighting design. It was started by the architect Dominic Harris, whose passion for interactive art and lighting design has produced built projects now found across the international art and architecture scene.

'Flutter’ is a new interactive artwork that explores the viewer’s encounter with a rabble of virtual butterflies. Flutter consists of a linear array of 88 vertical double-sided video fins projecting from a mirrored surface. Butterflies flash through these screens on virtual flight paths, visible for fleeting moments as the light irridesces off their wings. (seen at the recent Kinetica Art Fair in London)

To celebrate the launch of the UK’s first Restaurant and Bar Awards, Cinimod Studio was commissioned to create an outdoor interactive lighting installation. Conceived as an exploded blank canvas, the huge “exploded globe of light” was suspended from the trees over London’s famed Hoxton Square and was interactively controlled by the guests.

Over the past 10 years, artist Roseline De Thelin has been working with light as a medium and subject. Her ethereal installations explore all aspects of the medium - reflection, refraction, fragmentation and transparency (we're one step away from a full-blown PoMo reading here) Recently seen at the Kinetica Art Fair, Roseline's Homos Luminosos brings to mind Star Trek/Close encounters of the 3rd kind and the like. Fascinating stuff!

Speaking of Mona Lisa, Korean artist Lee Lee Nam uses digital technology to bring to life some of our most loved classics. Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring sheds a tear as she looks out at you, seemingly communicating her melancholy (which if you watched the movie of the same name, it totally makes sense). And yes, the Mona Lisa features in his body of work as well. In his parodic take of the enigmatic beauty, Nam puts the Mona Lisa in the midst of war as helicopters and parachutes rain down upon her.