Thoughts

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  • AFTERGLOW

    February 9, 2015

         Set designer and artist Barry Underwood transforms everyday landscapes into surreal experiences. Light installations intrude into ordinary landscapes, examining the effects of light pollution. Each ethereal photograph in the series Scenes explores mankind’s power over nature, and nature’s power over mankind, while sparking a conscience about what our impact on nature has been, and will continue to be. […]

  • UNREALITY

    February 5, 2015

              Corey Bartle Sanderson muses over the mundanities of everyday life. His work, entitled Supermarket Simulacrum II, challenges his viewers to question the reality of objects upon observation, and perhaps even more pressingly so, questions the nature of the food and products that we so willingly consume on a day-to-day basis. View more of his […]

  • A DIFFERENT TYPE

    January 26, 2015

          Israeli typographer Oded Ezer creates typefaces out of singular features of famous artworks, and the effect is strange, humorous, and at times disturbing. Nonetheless, this play with type serves as an update to sometimes overexposed pieces of work, and helps us to see them in a new light. For more of Ezer’s work, visit here.

  • ONE MAN’S TRASH

    January 22, 2015

         Artist Kim Alsbrooks questions the idea of class distinction and status quo by painting historical figures on discarded, flattened drink cans. These portraits, originally painted on ivory from the 17th-18th Century, are recreated on aluminium cans. And Alsbrooks is picky about the cans she uses: “One cannot flatten the trash. It just doesn’t work. It […]

  • PIECED TOGETHER

    December 30, 2014

    Japanese artist and cartographer Sohei Nishino creates maps — but not just any maps; visiting some of the most iconic cities across the world, Nishino takes thousands of photos of locations across the city, and then painstakingly cuts up and pieces together these photos to create intricately detailed collages that capture not only the landmarks of […]

  • Blending the virtual and the real into alien-looking worlds, Korean born artist Jung-Yeon Min creates modern-day surrealism, inspired by the constant exchange between the tangible and the technological. Tiny figures often appear in the paintings, and Min says that she often puts herself in her dream worlds. “My paintings tell about my life.” See more […]