Archive for the 'Artists' Category

Gregory Crewdson

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

In his work, Gregory Crewdson explores the eerie side of Americana. Through his skillfully staged photographs, Crewdson shows the surreal side of suburban and rural America in its most sinister form.

Marcial Feliciano

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Marcial Felicano’s most recent work relies on observation and the appropriation of the accidental

Jorge Pineda

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

The happiest times of our lives are sometimes tarnished by society, making it harder for our youth to adjust. At times children make up invisible characters and construct masks so they can hide their fears. Personified in a cartoonish way, Jorge Pineda’s characters portray these violent and at sometimes destructive ways.[...]

Ivelisse Jiménez

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Ivelisse Jiménez uses painting as a point of departure to construct pieces that deal with the idea of simultaneity and contradiction. The manner in which objects, images and materials are articulated questions the hierarchies of what is most present.[...]

Aaron Salabarrías

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Aaron Salabarrías is a multidisciplinary artist that employs photography and painting as a recurring medium in his installations to present viewers with a dissimilar view of the tired ‘island paradise’ cliché. By decontextualizing objects, he transforms them into sublime readymades that create a dialogue between the object and the spectator.[...]

Slinkachu

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Slinkachu is a London-based artist who creates very small street based installations of miniature model train set characters, which are placed on the street and photographed.[...]

Vincent Lafrance

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Inspired by many ideas at once, Vincent Lafrance constructs multiple bodies of work simultaneously using primarily video and photography. This eclectic method, once considered conceptually uncomfortable, has resulted in a body of work that is both polymorphic and discontinuous.[...]

Anna Jane McIntyre

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Anna Jane McIntyre’s love of the nighttime spectacle, cheap glamour, the complexity of being human, lights and action has resulted in an obsession with the circus arts. Her work explores animism, social behaviour, movement, the imagined, notions of balance and the powerful allure of the asymmetrical.[...]

Yoan Capote

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Yoan Capote received his education in Painting at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. It was later that he introduced sculpture into his discourse, interested in the use of materials and the possiblities of interaction of public and object.[...]

Josh Keyes

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Over the past several years, Josh Keyes has developed an iconic and complex personal vocabulary of imagery, creating a unique juxtaposition between the natural world and man-made landscapes.[...]