Category: art
Creativity, design, culture, inspiration
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Convergence: The Art of Kent Williams – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Williams’ “1962” serves as an ideal example of Karnowski’s diagnosis. The work measures just a bit over five feet in height, and almost as long in width. It is comprised of oil on linen and features two sitting figures. The figure in the background is of a woman, she appears to either be putting her read more
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Larger Than Life: The Sculptures of Kazu Hiro – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Suddenly, you notice how beautiful it is and every problem disappears because it’s a kind of switch that makes you focus on this one thing…” Kazu Hiro is selective about whom he chooses to portray in his work and seeks out subjects with whom he has an emotional connection. “I realized that everyone I wanted read more
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Roller Derby “Kisses”: The Beautifully Bruised Paintings of Riikka Hyvonen – Hi-Fructose Magazine
London Rollergirls player Cami Gabriel is the derby girl behind that now immortalized first Facebook comment. “In roller derby, social media is very important,” she says. “As we are a ‘for the skater, by the skater’ grass roots initiative, we require word of mouth to publicize our games and make sure we fill those sports read more
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The Art & Adventures of The London Police – Hi-Fructose Magazine
From 2004 until 2009, Barrisson worked on the London Police solo and ventured out to other cities. “At this point, I was doing it on my own and I was doing it more illegally in every other country because there wasn’t that niche of the electricity box and the paper, but I would still try read more
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Metamorphosis: An interview with Floria Sigismondi – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Hi-Fructose: Your work has a very distinctive look, combining dreamily outlandish imagery combined with striking lighting. I was curious about your start, what influenced your aesthetics? You grew up in a theatrical household, how much do you think that shaped the way your art developed? Floria Sigismondi: I think growing up in the industrial town read more
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Antiquity In the Faux: The Sculptures of Kris Kuksi – Hi-Fructose Magazine
In Kris Kuksi’s “Leda and the Swan,” the mythical woman sits nude and slightly less voluptuous than Rubens and Cézanne’s versions of her. In this mixed-media assemblage, the mother of Helen of Troy is surrounded by cities that literally rise above her and more that are flipped upside down. Train tracks crumble. Armies go to read more
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Another Time, Another Space: The Art and Life of Rammellzee – Hi-Fructose Magazine
WRITING, ALPHABETS, TYPOGRAPHIES ARE ALL UBIQUITOUS ELITE TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE LOWERED THEMSELVES INTO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS WHERE THEY ADAPT YOU TO THEIR HABIT, THEIR REFLEX, THEIR PERCEPTION. THE PRIZE? CONTROL OF THE MEANS OF PERCEPTION.” Both of these projects were made from found materials. The Letter Racers were smaller, built up off skateboard decks or objects read more
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Amandine Urruty: Wunderkammers & The Monocromatic Dream State – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Building a wunderkammer is a surrealist exercise, in a way,” Paris-based Amandine Urruty explains of the cabinet of curiosities motif that appears in her work. “I tend to gather objects I like, ‘90’s toys, luxury vases, miniature chairs and a bunch of skulls. The cabinet of curiosity is a decor, and each case of it read more
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Nothing To Hide: The Sculptures of JinYoung Yu – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“My creations represent those who have chosen a life apart from others, as if they are invisible or non-existent beings. Instead of adapting themselves to human society, they enter into their own personal space, avoiding other’s interruptions.” Jinyoung’s vision, message and technique hit full stride in 2008’s A Family in Disguise. Shown as a solo read more
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Incantation: The Art of Martin Wittfooth – Hi-Fructose Magazine
In “Loot Bag”, which appeared at Roq La Rue in Seattle last year, Martin Wittfooth depicts a pelican whose beak overflows with stuff. A doll, a toy elephant, and a pig pop out from the mess as though they are trying to escape. Soda cans, balloons, disposable cups and fast food make up much of read more
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Transmutations: The Art of Daniel Martin Diaz – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“I’m like an engineer more than an artist,” says Diaz. “I have to see what this is going to look like what, how it’s going to fit in on that proportion of paper or canvas, whatever it is, before I can do it.” Diaz says that it’s actually the sketch that’s the art for him. read more
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Of Place & Time: The Narrative Paintings of Andrew Hem – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The paintings of Andrew Hem linger just left of reality. With his instantly recognizable style, Hem blends figurative painting and atmospheric landscapes, echoes of graffiti art and a deep understanding of color harmony. Rendering scenes both urban and rural, modern yet outside of time, he creates works that are a mix of realism and surrealism, read more
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Employee of The Month: Felt Artist Lucy Sparrow Re-Creates Chip Shops, Bodegas, Porn Shops, With All The Inconvenient Details – Hi-Fructose Magazine
As soon as the show opened, it felt like I was on holiday because working the show is a piece of cake compared to the production stage.” Yet, Sparrow persisted. And although her work has continued to rise in reputation, the actual day-to-day process of creating the items that populate these stores is laborious as read more
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Classics of Rock: Adam Parker Smith’s Whimsical Approach Squeezes The Satire Out of Classical Sculpture – Hi-Fructose Magazine
At all times, there’s a “nagging voice in my head saying, ‘This might be a disaster.’” Smith grew up far away from all that, in the small Northern California town of Arcata, Population: 18,000. His parents owned a mom-and-pop bicycle shop and lived on an apple orchard. It was by all accounts an idyllic childhood, read more
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Lola Gil Distorts Memories With Her Glass Managerie – Hi-Fructose Magazine
I AM DEFINITELY PLAYING AROUND WITH NOSTALGIA… IT IS THE PLACE WHERE MY IMAGINATION BEGAN, AND I AM ATTACHED TO THAT EXPERIENCE FOR MY ESCAPE.” Especially in her early career, Gil was struck by the art world describing her as a type of surrealist. Pop or lowbrow did not matter. It rang untrue. It seemed read more
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With The Skill of A Surgeon Brian Dettmer Reveals The Sculptures Hidden Inside Forgotten Books – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Conceptually, I like the idea that I’m working with something that has already’ died’ andI ’m bringing it back to life.” In fact, he’s often repurposing items that may not have otherwise found a second life. When he lived in New York, Dettmer often sourced books from boxes that people would leave on the sidewalk read more
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Violently Happy: Hattie Stewart’s Saccharine-Fueled World Is In Your Face & Over The Top. – Hi-Fructose Magazine
A clean line is such a joy to me. If I’m stuck or having a bad day or I’m frustrated with a commission (or the world in general!), getting ideas down on paper always makes me feel better.” Despite all the tinkering and fine-tuning that happens there, her primary sketchbook work is surprisingly polished. The read more
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Scratching the Surface: The Cinematic Paintings of Anna Weyant – Hi-Fructose Magazine
IT’S A SUBTLE MERGER OF REAL LIFE AND FICTION IMBUED WITH A DOSE OF SATIRE AND ABSURDIST HUMOR. In the press surrounding Weyant’s work, there’s often mention of similarities to artists of the Dutch Golden Age or contemporary artists like John Currin, but that seems to be scratching the surface of possible influences or visual read more
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The Peripheral Path: Paintings By Jean-Pierre Roy – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“I grew up with film, video games, and comic books as the primary source of my visual memory. While some of them have stood the test of time and have been considered classics of the genre or the medium, a lot of it was really just capital L Low art. It wasn’t until I started read more
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Nature Made Flesh: Tamara Kostianovsky Turns Upcycled Fabrics Into Visceral Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Somebody asked me recently if I had washed my father’s clothes before using them in the sculptures,’” she says. “I didn’t. They still contain his cells.” These meat sculptures, part of an early series entitled Actus Reus, which is Latin for “guilty act,” were followed by Nature Made Flesh, a project started by Kostianovsky after read more
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