Apex Predator (for girls) – the latest in a line of toothed shoe sculptures (denture implants, not real teeth) created by UK designers Dominic Young and Mariana Fantich.
Don’t forget your matching plushie.
Previously: Walking With Predators
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Fordite
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Fordite, also known as Motor Agate, is a multilayered, heat-tempered nugget of hardened enamel paint dating back to a time when newly manufactured cars were painted using hand sprayers.
Excess paint collected on assembly line apparatus would harden into solid enamel after repeated exposure to the drying ovens. Once considered a waste product, the vintage chunks are now highly sought after by jewellers in the US.
When the Webbys recently awarded their Person Of The Year gong to Banksy for this ‘Better Out Than In’ New York residency, the artist accepted by way of a wry video retrospective.
Space-time continuum-bothering DC Comics/Tenth and Eleventh Doctor art print mashups by Dean Trippe.
A mobile exhibition of interactive ‘3D’ paintings by Russian art and design studio Brain Mash.
Framed
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Damaged and combined picture frames augmented with tiny photocopies of French artist Steven Geurmeur from two 2012 series entitled ‘Action Against The Frame’ and ‘Association Between Structures’.
Miami-based Colombian multimedia artist Federico Uribe – drawn to the “neglected beauty of simple objects in daily use”- repurposes fragments of pencils, held together with glue and zip-ties to create landscapes, 3D figures and textured ‘paintings’.
A new animation from Jake Fried, who uses ink, gouache, white-out and coffee to build up the ‘frames’ of his animations as layers, invariably resulting in a completed canvas several inches thick.
Previously: Down Into Nothing
Looking Up
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Atlas – excerpts from an eyeball-pleasing series of paintings by Marco Petrus depicting idealised aspects of urban architecture – currently exhibiting at the Triennale di Milano