Kyle Webster is a mastermind with brushstrokes. His ability to illustrate and story tell within Adobe’s perimeters is unparalleled and one of the reasons his regular clients include The New Yorker and The New York Times. In addition to creating, he’s dipped his toe into the world of instruction and has started selling his infamous strokes. They’re extremely reasonable and life-like in presentation. Click here to explore, purchase and watch a tutorial.
Today’s feature is what collaborative dreams are made of. If you haven’t yet watched the video, please go do that now:
Two incredible artists, Janine Rewell and Minna Parikka recently joined forces to create a campaign including body paint, shoes, graphic patterns and naked models. The result are show-stopping.
The artists in this week’s gallery picks take a tactile approach with the incorporation of textiles, weaving and embroidery in their work.
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1. Charting the high points of June Wayne’s pioneering oeuvre, this exhibition features works from each of her major periods, from her early Social Realist paintings through her lithographs responding to the literary works of Franz Kafka and John Donne, to The Dorothy Series, through her tapestries and innovative light-reflective paintings, to her late digital prints at Pasadena Museum of California Art
2. This exhibition marks an evolution in Margo Wolowiec’s practice. Referencing patterns of traditional Navajo rugs and Bauhaus weavers, the large-scale works in this exhibition move fluidly in and out of various geometric structures, breaking a strictly gridded logic and allowing for a more painterly approach at Anat Ebgi
3. Constantly searching, Sigmar Polke studiously avoided any one signature style or medium; his method exemplified the definition of alibi, “in or at another place,” which also suggests a deflection of blame at Museum of Modern Art
4. Ghada Amer ‘s is brightly-colored, embroidered “paintings” in which depictions of women and feminist texts are carefully stitched and sewn on the canvas at Cheim & Reid
5. Through donated business attire from banks and corporate employees, Christina Massey re-purposed this fabric and hand stitched it together with sections of her own failed works on canvas at Dacia Gallery
6. Florencia Walfisch’s The Importance of Minimal Gestures at Gallery Krom
While thumbing through instagram last night, I came across this wonderful campaign and collection. Has anyone else heard of Born Free? Im sure many of you have…as it’s overtaken the homepage of Shopbop and is a fashion collaboration of epic proportions.
Wangechi Mutu, a celebrated Kenyan-born, NYC based artist, has shared several of her prints with fashion industry greats, including Celine, Prada, Lem Lem, DKNY, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Carolina Herrera, Isabel Marant and more, to create a mother/child collection and awareness campaign.
This mission is a private-sector led initiative with one goal: to end transmission of HIV from mothers to children by the end of 2015. Born Free invests in people, time and business acumen to significantly accelerate the pace toward elimination in African countries most affected by this issue. To learn more, click here and snap up the pieces you love, before they’re gone!
This week’s artists reference a starting point from which their work leaps into something wholly their own.
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1. Tauba Auerbach’s newly created sculptures and photographs take as their starting point the scientific principles of symmetry and reflection as a means to hint at an alternate, mirror universe at Institute of Contemporary Arts
2. The works in this exhibition address the tension between the advancing economical, industrial, social and environmental issues that affect communities across the world, uniting us all and enabling Liu Bolin to communicate powerfully and effectively to a global audience at Scream London
3. Bradley Castellanos’ pictures “are not the depiction of an actual place; the initial photograph is a departure point to an imagined world achieved through manipulation, cutting, and painting.” at Ryan Lee
4. Reenacting the Old Masters, with a little twist at Stux Gallery
5. Articulated Structure investigates the roots of architectural, neurological, musical, and visual form. at Dedee Shattuck Gallery
6. Often inspired by contemporary and historical events, Swoon engages with climate change in her installation as a response to the catastrophic Hurricane Sandy that struck the Atlantic Coast in 2012, and Doggerland, a landmass that once connected Great Britain and Europe and that was destroyed by a tsunami 8,000 years ago at Brooklyn Museum
Designers have a love/hate relationship with the pixel. We dislike being called pixel pushers, yet glorify the square throughout our work- whether it’s a conscious celebration (like in today’s feature), or a small part of the greater landscape.
We’ve been tracking the life cycle of this motif for a long time, as it’s a geometric staple that’s never going away. What’s interesting though, are the vectorize alterations and evolving color palettes. We started picking up on the trend from Matt W Moore’s murals a few years back, then watched the corporate giant, Chase bank jump in on the action. Percolate then released iOS wallpapers in deep jewel-toned palettes, and now we have pastel grids from Society6, Piol and Squared Array.
The top two designs double as web banners, which is fairly unique in the digital ad buying world. Both caught my eye before starting in on the content…though someone like me may be a bit skewed. The punch of color and linear movement stands out in the sea of model and type heavy advertisements. Big fan over here.