Posted: February 13th, 2010 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists | Tags: animals, antennae, bad ass, badass, brutal, color, creatures, cut, death, flowers, insects, life, live vs death, milwaukee, milwaukee art venue, nature, paper cut outs, Roxanne Jackson, transformation, transitions, union art gallery, university of wisconsin milwaukee, UWM | No Comments »
The gallery I work at (UAG) has a pretty badass show going on currently called Flora/Fauna. If any of you are in the Milwaukee area or are passing through, definitely check it out. I did a post on Roxanne Jackson awhile back, some of the work in that post is worth looking at. Here is what we have in the show:
Roxanne Jackson:
Eat Your Heart Out
Becoming and Solid Gold
Untitled
Rorschach hide
Eat Your Heart Out
Stigma
White Diamond
Lyuba
Pachyderm
Forgotten
Golden
At the artist talk before the opening of the show Roxanne discussed the ideas surrounding her work. Transformation from man into creature or beast is a recurring theme as well as animal hybrids. I agree with Roxanne in that such a transformation is a fantasy, that we are already beasts, yet we often fear our animal nature in desperate attempt to feel superior. I don’t care so much for her works with wigs, but her ceramic heads and animals are fantastic. They draw on goth and horror aesthetics. Being a metal head I find much of her work exceedingly, specifically the black heads with jaws pushing out of the human mouth.
Kako Ueda:
Eros & Thanatos
Eros & Thanatos
Totem
Totem
Totem
Totem
Totem
Totem
Totem
Totem
Totem
Totem
Inside Out
Dreaming of Foetus
Antennae
Gaze
Kako’s usage of paper started in a happenstance sort of way. She’s always been using paper as a drawer, but many years ago she just sort of started cutting it one night. What ensued was a series of beautifully crafted and composed artworks. A large theme in her work is life and death. Life needs death and death life. To depict this she uses imagery of plants, insects, eggs, a skull, and faces. In her work “Totem” (the red paper cut outs above) are a string of narratives composing her own totem pole of sorts. Clown imagery is drawn from her mother’s interest and collection of clown dolls. The other narratives are privately inspired and we can only conclude them in our imagination.
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Posted: January 26th, 2010 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Daily Img | Tags: bash, battle, brutal, cut, drawing, guardians of gaia, helm, helmet, illustration, marks, metal, pen, puppy, scratches, slash, wear, wounds | No Comments »
A friend of mine drew this puppy in my sketchbook. Abhorred by all the empty space around it I decided to fill it in.
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Posted: January 25th, 2010 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists, Upcoming | Tags: badass, brutal, detailed, fauna, flora, flora/fauna, kako ueda, milwaukee, paper art, Roxanne Jackson, sculpture, uag, union art gallery, UWM, UWM Union Art Gallery, wonderful | No Comments »
The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Union Art Gallery is starting the semester right with an intense, brutal, and beautiful exhibit with artists Kako Ueda and Roxanne Jackson. Details Below:
Flora/Fauna
Work by Kako Ueda and Roxanne Jackson
January 29-February 26, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, January 29, 5-8pm
Gallery talk with artists: 4pm
Kako Ueda and Roxanne Jackson focus on physical nature and human nature in abstract and inventive ways. They share an interest in dualities, such as nature and culture, light and dark. In their work, the natural world is intricate, fascinating, grotesque, frightening – something to be drawn deeply into and sometimes shocked by.
New York artist Kako Ueda constructs her work from intricate hand-cut paper which references, in part, paper cutting from Japan where she was born. Minneapolis-based Roxanne Jackson works three-dimensionally with clay to form large compositions of human/animal hybrids.
UWM Union Art Gallery
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Campus level
www.unionartgallery.uwm.edu
414-229-6310
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Posted: January 9th, 2010 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists | Tags: beautiful, best smith ever, black, brutal, Cal, Cal Lane, carve, cold, delicate, dirt, dismantle, earth, harsh, hot, intricate, iron, kick ass, Lane, metal, metals, red, rough, rust, sculpture, smooth, steel, toilet paper, unfold, weld, wonderous | 5 Comments »
Cal Lane is an artist I recently Stumbledupon. Her work is awesomely crafted and her concepts are strong. The aesthetics of her work draw me in and captivate. I would love to see her work in person and be able to examine it from all angles.
From her artist statement:
“I like to work as a visual devil’s advocate, using contradiction as a vehicle for finding my way to an empathetic image, an image of opposition that creates a balance – as well as a clash – by comparing and contrasting ideas and materials.This manifested in a series of “Industrial Doilies”, pulling together industrial and domestic life as well as relationships of strong and delicate, masculine and feminine, practical and frivolity, ornament and function. There is also a secondary relationship being explored here, of lace used in religious ceremonies as in weddings, christenings and funerals.”
I found this piece to be pretty humorous and different compared to her other works:
Thanks to Acid Cow
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Posted: December 21st, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Daily Img | Tags: arrows, bash, batter, bleed, brutal, Daily Img, dead, die, drawing, epic clash, fallen, guardians of gaia, guns, hop, humans, humans vs. humans vs. robots, ink, landscape, leap, pen, river, robot wars, rocks, run, smash, swing, throw, throwers, toss, war | No Comments »
Desperate for food and supplies a great horde descends on the Guardians and their human followers.
Click for a better image:
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Posted: December 20th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artocalyptic News | Tags: arrows, bash, batter, bleed, brutal, Daily Img, dead, die, drawing, epic clash, fallen, guardians of gaia, guns, hop, humans, humans vs. humans vs. robots, ink, landscape, leap, pen, river, robot wars, rocks, run, smash, swing, throw, throwers, toss, war | No Comments »
Epic Clash is a larger work filled with figures and details. Each day I will post about 5 details of the larger work and in several days the entire composition will be shown.
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Posted: December 19th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artocalyptic News | Tags: arrows, bash, batter, bleed, brutal, Daily Img, dead, die, drawing, epic clash, fallen, guardians of gaia, guns, hope, humans, humans vs. humans vs. robots, ink, landscape, leap, pen, river, robot wars, rocks, run, smash, swing, throw, throwers, toss, war | No Comments »
Epic Clash is a larger work filled with figures and details. Each day I will post about 5 details of the larger work and in several days the entire composition will be shown.
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Posted: December 18th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Daily Img | Tags: arrows, bash, batter, bleed, brutal, Daily Img, dead, die, drawing, epic clash, fallen, guardians of gaia, guns, hope, humans, humans vs. humans vs. robots, ink, landscape, leap, pen, river, robot wars, rocks, run, smash, swing, throw, throwers, toss, war | No Comments »
Epic Clash is a larger work filled with figures and details. Each day I will post about 5 details of the larger work and in several days the entire composition will be shown.
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Posted: December 17th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Daily Img | Tags: arrows, bash, batter, battle, bleed, brutal, Daily Img, dead, die, drawing, epic clash, fallen, guardians of gaia, guns, hope, humans, humans vs. humans vs. robots, ink, landscape, leap, loss, pen, river, robot wars, rocks, run, smash, swing, throw, throwers, toss, victory, war | No Comments »
Epic Clash is a larger work filled with figures and details. Each day I will post about 5 details of the larger work and in several days the entire composition will be shown.
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Posted: November 21st, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists | Tags: action figures, awesome!, badass, battles, board games, brutal, collaboration, creative, drawing, Ernest Conception, gamer, geek, geekdom, illustration, imagination, line wars, mixed media, multifacited, opponents, painting, pen drawing, priest, strategy games, style, video games, violence, vs., war, weapons | No Comments »
Ernest Concepcion is a BBC artist, that is an artist whose work is Badass, Brutal, and Creative. His drawings are filled with so much content that one can get lost in them even from a computer screen. I would absolutely love to see his work live to truly appreciate his taste for detail.
Here is part of his artist statement pertaining to his Line Wars Series (images below):
From tables vs. chairs to cowboys vs. aliens and cookies vs. milk, The Line Wars began as a series of over 100, 9×12 inches, ink drawings that emerged from sketches and doodles–the most rudimentary expression of visual thinking. The images are based on the entertainments of childhood and adolescence: Video games, action figures, strategy board games–always two forces opposing one another. The Line Wars is a celebration of making impulsive, nonchalant drawings, as well as a personal journey into nostalgia and an homage to geekdom.
Here are some other artworks of Ernest’s:
Additionally, here is a link with some images of one of Ernest’s most recent collaborations.
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