Installation of KITA!!

These two Japanese artists create some pretty spectacular sculptures and installations using models and toys as inspiration.

I was famous last night, wood, 158 x 75 x 28 cm, detail

I don’t know much about Gehard Demetz, but his sculptures are phenomenal.  These wood sculptures are masterfully cut and Demetz allows voids in the wood to add to the pain reflected by his characters.

Alias NY_73 and Actual Invader

Invader is a street artist/sculptor, creating pieces that reflect the influence of technology on our society over the past 30 years or so.

paperwork #701G (in the beginning), graphite on paper, 228 x 418 x 6 inches; 580 x 1060 x 15 cm (installation DG-Galerie, München)

Andreas Kocks does some pretty amazing things with paper. His installations transform the paper into an exciting medium to explore.  Andreas is currently exhibiting his work with many other fine artists in Slash: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design in New York, NY.

Jim Denevan creates drawings that are nothing short of amazing.  These drawings are mostly created by dragging a stick on the ground.  Okay, I’ll shut up, enjoy.

These intense paintings are by artist Francoise Nielly.  Nielly paints mostly with oils on canvas using various palette knife techniques.

Michelle's Place - from Grand Theft Auto IV - Oil on cradled wood panel 30" x 30"

There is nothing new about artists taking inspiration from other created works, but there is something here worth discussing.  People tend to connect with landscape or cityscape paintings of places they have seen before and that is part of the beauty in them.  A painting of the Streets of Charleston is going to connect with me in a way that it cannot connect with someone who has never been there.

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Some really nice images from Cole Rise.  About Cole, from his site:

Sleepwalk - 2009 oil on canvas 24" x 30"

Finding Marion Pecks work on the web was a wonderful surprise!