New York artist Aakash Nihalani creates frolicsome outdoor installations with dayglo tape arranged in anamorphic patterns.
He’ll exhibit new work at a solo show at the Wunderkammern in Rome this April.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
2D Or Not 2D
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With the addition of white paint and charcoal edging, artist Cynthia Greig creates apparently two-dimensional anamorphics of everyday objects. Sez she:
I start by collecting everyday objects from the recent past — things made obsolete by technological changes and time; I then whitewash them with ordinary house paint as a method of erasure, and then draw directly onto their surfaces with charcoal to create visual hybrids that appear to vacillate between drawing and photography, black-and-white and color, signifier and signified, copy and original. No digital manipulation is involved, but the camera’s monocular point of view is imperative.
Bioramas
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Dutch physicist and artist Arie Van’t Riet shoots monochrome x-rays of plants and animals, digitises them and adds colour in Photoshop to create these slightly morbid, strangely pleasing images.
No animals were harmed by radiation, as most were already dead to begin with.
Neko Font
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The Japanese website NekoFont provides lettering and word generation (code and image downloads) based entirely on cats in various poses.
The font was inspired by the sleeping position of two rescued street cats Raizo and Mondo.
Portuguese artist Victor Nunes sees things in things, mainly faces, but other things too.
These are some of those things.
More things here.
Not the Addams family lawyers but, rather, new movie quote prints (US-shipped only, dammit) from illustrator Chet Phillips: Ghostbusters, Young Frankenstein and Office Space.
Previously: Sheldon Everett, Dread Pirate Roberts And Malcolm
Hand Tulle
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Artist Benjamin Shine takes single giant sheets of tulle fabric, then carefully folds and irons the semitransparent mesh to create detailed monochromatic’fabric paintings’ which, sez he:
…take their compositional cues from the fabric itself to reveal the inherent qualities of motion, fragility and transience.
Air Mail
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This is..
A 1:60 model of a Boeing 777 complete with working cargo doors and landing gear, cutaway panels and detailed interior – created over five years from manilla envelopes by Luca Iaconi-Stewart.
More pix here.
Escheresque
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Photorealistic graphite pencil drawings by self-taught South African artist Jono Dry including (top) his tribute to Drawing Hands by MC Escher depicting his own hand and that of his mother.
Aslan
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Aslan (Turkish for ‘lion, natch) by Istanbul-based artist Selçuk Yılmaz.
Made from 4000 pieces of hand-cut, hammered metal scraps, the piece weighs 250kg and took a whole year to complete.
More of his work here.