Polly Morgan
Posted by Fabio 29 January 2010
Polly Morgan is British and lives and works in London. She was born in 1980 and began working as an artist in October 2005. A love of animals and desire to preserve them led her to learn taxidermy, under the tutelage of taxidermist George Jamieson. Since then she has gravitated towards making still lives with the animal as subject.
Nathan Skiles
Posted by Fabio 29 January 2010
In Black Forest / White Lightning, Nathan Skiles presents a collection of densely adorned cuckoo clocks, ranging from the intricately elegant to the over-the-top outrageous, as a means to invigorate his method of associative image making and feed his interest in the incongruous. read more
PAUL WACKERS
Posted by Fabio 26 January 2010
An object in its natural environment. Beautiful acrylic, spray paint on panel by San Francisco artist Paul Wackers.
Chris Ofili
Posted by Fabio 26 January 2010
Chris Ofili’s intensely coloured and intricately ornamented paintings are on show at Tate Britain in a major survey of the artist’s career that brings together over 45 paintings, as well as pencil drawings and watercolours from the mid 1990s to today. One of the most acclaimed British painters of his generation, Ofili won the Turner Prize in 1998 and represented Great Britain at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003.
Exhibition runs from 27 January – 16 May 2010. Tate Britain
Natalie Rognsøy
Posted by Fabio 25 January 2010
Currently Norwegian artist Natalie Rognsøy is undertaking a BA in fine art at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t time to work on personal projects. Shown here is an image from her upcoming book Catmilagro which Rognsøy is producing together with artist Andreas Banderas.
Sons of Studios
Posted by Fabio 22 January 2010
Sons of Studios is a multi disciplinary creative studio in Copenhagen. A collaborative environment consisting of people with various backgrounds, spanning from graphic design, art, fashion, architecture, photography and film.
Adad Hannah
Posted by Fabio 22 January 2010
Adad Hannah is a video artist based in Montreal. Hannah recreates famous pictures as live performances by having people copying the exact poses from the original painting. These videos are normally presented as projections and at first glance appears as photographic stills, but one will soon experience a slight quivering of the models.
RONI HORN – AT Whitney
Posted by Fabio 21 January 2010
Exhibition runs until 24 January 2010
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021
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