Italian Surrealist Franco Donaggio follows in a long line of artists who’ve investigated the world of dreams. The two projects featured here, Morpheus’ Spaces and Urbis, take two distinct approaches to surrealism in relation to the urban environment….
Leigh Merrill constructs imaginary spaces using thousands of photographs and video segments to create oddly hypnotic and meditative scenes of banal commercial environments. This featured piece, Lone Star, functions as a sort of moving photograph…
With her impressionist views of popular cultural landmarks, Corinne Vionnet presents a collective vision of the Tourist. These images from her series, Photo Opportunities, are composed of hundreds of snapshots found on the web, and are carefully combined to represent communal ideas of well-known tourist destinations.
The reconstructed images of Leigh…
The work of Matthew Swarts can be described as pictures brought back from the dead. As an artist of appropriation, he re-conditions found images through both digital and printing processes. Writing this interview let me to spend a long time thinking about the meaning of images whose intentions have long since been forgotten, and in a sense I’m intrigued by Swarts’ interest in recycling these types of pictures. In the act of re-purposing, he breaths into these images new life and new meaning.
Quebec born artist Aislinn Leggett creates composite narratives of the Canadian landscape. With a mixture of family photography and found images, Leggett crafts imagery that reverberates with the history of the Canadian landscape
British Artist Helen Sear’s dual series, Inside the View and Beyond the View, expresses variations on themes of female strength, passivity and defiance. Through the use of super-impositions and digital drawing, she presents to us anonymous portraits of women layered under foils of flower motifs, intimate landscapes…
Brett Seamans and Lucy “Pony” Lott are a fashion duo based out of the Lower East Side in New York City. Their work ranges from gritty experimental film work to CGI, animation and graphic illustration. These two, just barely out of school, have already begun to make a name for themselves as artists working on the cutting edge fashion-based imaging.
In Josh Poehlein ’s series, Modern History, we see both re-enactments and fabrications of historical events made by compositing together imagery from YouTube videos. His scenes raise many ideas about history, mythologism, and the vast amount of digital data we…
Asger Carlsen ’s documentary-like images create an uncanny vision of the grotesque. What I find interesting about them is the sculptural quality lent to his subjects, as well as the sparse and un-kept environments they’re photographed in. The tension between his realist style of his photographs and their un-real subject matter creates a seamless platform from which we can ruminate over our own physical mortality.
Armed with an iphone and an imagination, Karen Divine creates surrealistic scenes crafted through photographs and illustration. She brings to life a world of color, symbolism, and imagination that are often reflections of her own personal experiences.
What strikes me most about Jackson Patterson’s images is his method of creating narrative by presenting two disparate pictures as a single image. Each of his images display a duality of visual and cerebral dimensions…