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Phil Sharp - photographs of New York

I find photographer Phil Sharp’s flickr set of New York photographs utterly refreshing. The details, the angles, the lighting, oh all of it.

Adrian Bach, untitled photograph

Adrian Bach, untitled
isn’t this beautiful? transforms a playground into an island, a place of refuge from the flood.  can’t seem to find any more on this artist but an intriguing image.

Marilyn Minter’s painting and photography

Marilyn Minter’s photography (and painting) is up close, in-your-face, visceral, dripping with tangible texture, abject, corporeal, sexual, and stunning.  She also made a video called Green Pink Caviar in the same evocative style. (via)

Chewing Pink
2008

Bazooka
2009

Crystal Swallow
2006
painting, enamel on metal
Joshua Shirky in SFMOMA’s brochure of her work, writes:
In place of these idealized objects, Minter [...]

Ant Battle: Thursday, 2pm

Posted in Central Park by artist d.billy. Fantastic!  I absolutely love this kind of playful site-specific public art. (via)

Philippe Ramette, Balcon II

Enjoying this interesting photograph on a grey Tuesday.  Philippe Ramette: “Balcon II,” 2001. (Found here, where you can see it in a larger size)

Photography of built space by Christoph Morlinghaus

Christoph Morlinghaus takes amazing architectural photographs, including startlingly modern and innovative churches. I stared in amazement and had a few double takes before I realized that these churches ACTUALLY EXIST.
I agree with Gary of Junk for Code, who observes:
It’s odd–this work explores the use of space as constructed locations, as means of spiritual experience. [...]

My sister, the artist - Ashley de Jong-Doucette

As we grew up my sister Ashley and I were both very creative - I would write poetry and stories while she would create artworks in pencil, paint, pretty much marking in whatever she could get her hands on.  We always joked that we would form a dynamic sister team of writing children’s books and [...]

Car Crash Studies by Nicolai Howalt

Car Crash Studies is “a thought provoking photographic study of life’s fragility” by Nicolai Howalt playing with that interesting intersection between the horrible and the beautiful, the abstract and the real.  Love it.

(via today and tomorrow)

Print shopping withdrawal

I really want to buy this print, but I’m hoping that blogging about it will be enough indulgence to satisfy this desire.  Still have lots of prints that remain unframed in my art box, because framing is expensive while prints are tantalizingly affordable … print collecting is an unfortunate addiction that way.

Untitled (Let’s Get Lost) [...]

Brian Cooper - Oil Paintings

Unconventional oil paintings are so fascinating, especially when they mix realism with the fantastic, and Brian Cooper’s work is no exception.  I think I could get lost in these paintings.

Stuck in the Finite, Longing for the Infinite
2009, oil on panel, 8″ by 10″

The Romance of Space and Time
2008, oil on canvas, 48″ by 36″