Stella is a painter and drawer living in New York City.
Despite her background in industrial design and toy design, she has recently turned to a more personal and expressive kind of creating, showing her works at galleries from late 2005.
When she’s not drawing or painting, she likes to eat while thinking of more food to eat; search for the perfect cupcake; eat ice cream at the park; and just walk around her most favorite city in the world. [Via her site]
Yasushi Ebihara’s McCauley Caulkin paintings area creepy.
Up now at GR2 is a group art show called, ‘GEISAI Artists at Giant Robot’. The show was put together by legendary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and Giant Robot founder and owner, Eric Nakamura. Murakami is famously known for his collaboration with Louis Vuitton, creating the multicolor monogram and cherry blossom designs, and most recently creating the album artwork for Kanye West’s new album, Graduation.
Together they’ve picked a hand-full of award winning artists from the GEISAI art show to display their work at GR2. The artists involved are Yasushi Ebihara, Hisashi Kondo, Sashie Masakatsu, Rie Kawashima, Rieko Sakuri, Miki Taira, and Erika Yamashiro. [Via LAist]
Amy Sol spent her childhood years in Korea—then moved to Las Vegas where she currently lives and works.
Kanai 顕 (kana it goes clearly and opens)/profile
The Fukuoka prefecture origin
You aim toward the image writer with art department of the Japanese Kogakuin professional school, but abandonment.
You take charge of the cutting illustration for leaflet announcement at 1981 design company,
In 1988 free lance. The book cover, the poster and package illustration etc. are managed.
Serializing “the counterattack of the romance picture mansion” in 2002 October – 2004 September S&M スナイパー magazine.
At 2004 January ヴァニラ picture gallery, “counterattack spreading/displaying opening of private exhibition romance picture mansion”.
Start of 2005 cartoon production.
2007 photographer, Tanaka 欣 one and two human spreading/displaying openings. [Via Vanilla Gallery, translation via Babelfish]
It materialized converted original idea cartoonist 駕 basket Sintarou’s delusion inside the brain the “non- hygienic exposition”, position of the paying/inserting cool summer! At severe heat the ? beam encephalon the non- hygiene which furthermore forms pus and makes rot summer celebration opening! Previous publication book and independent production book, many sale such as DVD and special toy!
駕 basket Sintarou/profile
1969 Tokyo origin. 1988, at “the COMIC BOX” magazine you debut.
Later, you read the エロ cartoon magazine mainly on the center and publishing the drill. In 1999 from Ota publication summary serialization on “flamingo” magazine
It is the book ’ shining! It reached the point which touched the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere ’ the eye of the maniac of world to seem, can publish the book constantly.
It participates in also group exhibition positively, at Shinjuku loft plan one laughing スカトロイベント “? is densely festival” opening. In addition it awakes even in solid production, the original ? it is densely selling the toy and the disjointed corpse toy as ガ?ャ?ン.
If when recently the member magazine ’ world which makes 100 cartoonists and the artist concentrate is 100 ? is densely, ’ it does also our expense publication. The ? it is the further evolution type ’ ? of the event it is movie festival ’ it holds densely densely on 2006 April 7th.
Book ’ shining! Slaughter ’ ’ everything good ’ ’ six recognition revolution thought アタラクシア ’ ’ paranoia street ’ ’ アイコ 16 year old ’ ’ super transmission brain パラタクシス ’ before the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere ’ ’ comedy stations ’ it dances! The Kremlin palace ’ ’ shooting shooting grass paper ’ ’ refuse and ? system ’ and so on and so on.
The Charmer, The Tickler, The Flower Muncher, The Nibbler, The Two-Timer, and The Examiner. Each are available for $200 directly from Amy Crehore.
Sexy design work by Cum* in the Streets: Sexmachines 12 inch ‘Okay’, on Eskimo Recordings
Born in 1978, Hiroki Tsukuda spent his early years watching Sci-Fi movies. This seems to have shaped his artistic career with a futuristic atmosphere – as you can see in his cool masks and graphic collages. PingMag visited Tsukuda’s two solo exhibitions currently in Tokyo, at Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama and Nanzuka Underground in Shibuya, and talked to him about his futuristic vision – and why he likes Max Ernst. [Via PingMag]
Paul Chan free DIY mp3 audio essays from the likes of Lao Zi to Maurice Blanchot.
Some of my favorites:
Paul Chan is an artist-activist with a well-trained digital eye. Though his work ranges from video projections of telephone-pole shadows to philosophically altered typefaces to HTML tales of prewar Baghdad, the Hong Kong-born American artist has made his most visible mark with digitized, hyper-colorful, animated films.
In his panoramic animations Chan culls from a rich array of sources, from outsider artist Henry Darger and surrealist poet and painter Henri Michaux to rapper Jadakiss and playwright Samuel Beckett. In Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization, Chan computerizes Darger’s hermaphroditic Vivian girls and morphs the late artist’s soldiers into cell phone-carrying suits. The girls party in a dance hall of excess, but soon a woeful battle of wills perpetrated by the suits wreaks havoc on the Vivian idylls.
My Birds . . . trash . . . the future, featured at the Lyon Biennale, is a bright, flatly colored apocalyptic vision set against the backdrop of a lone gnarled tree and — depending on which side of the double-screen you watch — either a gradated rainbow or smoking sky. Corpses hang from nooses and lovers coo, as flapping birds and couples who communicate via mathematical equations visit the scene. Biggie Smalls even makes a deft appearance.
With elegant sleight of hand, Chan creates foreboding worlds of pleasure fraught with melancholy and destruction while maintaining a silver lining of hope. (ML) [Via Artkrush]
Also from Bomb Magazine:
NM: Let’s get back to your work for a second. Your double-sided video projection My Birds . . . Trash . . . The Future brings together Biggie Smalls and Pasolini in a world inflected with Goya, Beckett, the Bible and the contemporary presence of suicide bombers. There are many strands woven together in that piece. Where did it come from?
PC: I’m enraged that we have to think about faith in the twenty-first century. I’m fascinated and confused by it. I just keep saying, We’re in the twenty-first century. Marx thought in the nineteenth century that factories would be the new churches, and that industrialization would secularize the world. Now we realize that it’s a secular world, but only for a few people. A lot of people got left behind. And they’ve returned. Return of the repressed, in a way. It scares me, and it moves me. I had to find a way of articulating all those things: the idea of being a citizen of the twenty-first century, which sounds completely pompous; the confusion and anxiety that comes with trying to feel a kind of faith in the twenty-first century. Actually, it all started with my trip to Baghdad, where people wouldn’t talk to me sincerely unless I told them I was religious. The idea was if I didn’t have a religion, my words were not connected to a higher order that would punish me if I didn’t speak the truth.
What is it about the essence of the female that David Bray captures like no other? Grace, poise, poetry, knowing, power and centrea dark sexual subtext.. melting natural sensuality and feral energy. I look at David’s iconic girls and I see a metaphor for life. I want to wrap my naked thighs around the neck of a lion. I want to be that girl.. her crimson heart drumming the beat of life.. the scent of Joan Of Arc in her untamed hair we are told every day that the female species is in ruins reduced to believing that handbags are the Holy Grail.. vacuous, neurotic and chemically dependent on anthrax that we inject into our faces.. IVF.. cocaine.. a species defined by our catatonic eating disorders and unnecessary operations. David Bray knows this is a lie.. his pen is my sword.. Mary Anne Hobb.
Interview on Daze Digital