Tag: HiFructose
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Good Pain: The Broken Skate Deck Sculptures of Haroshi – Hi-Fructose Magazine
It’s quite exciting for me to see how unskilled skaters could make tricks, somehow much more [exciting] than to see skilled skaters make tricks easily. Haroshi attributes much of his success to the lessons learned through the DIY ethos of skateboarding. He recalls attempting to master his first ollie. At first, the idea of jumping read more
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Okuda: Full Color Chaos – Hi-Fructose Magazine
In 2014, Okuda was introduced to the Santa Barbara church in Asturias. Originally built in 1912 as a place of worship for the workers of an explosives factory in the northern Spanish town of Llanera, the building was abandoned after the Spanish Civil War. Nearly a century later, a local skateboarding collective in Spain known read more
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Predictive Dreams: The Sculptures of Katsuyo Ayoki – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The decorativeness quoted from other ornamental art in my works are not for challenging; it is for my own expression as a fine artist.” But compared to Hirst and Koons, Katsuyo’s work seems a little anachronistic, a little awkward in a generation accustomed to justifying every fl ourish, embellishment and technical sympathy to the enforcers read more
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A Wild Night Out: The Art of Anna Park – Hi-Fructose Magazine
charcoal allows me to see my ideas come to life as soon as I conceive them… “I feel as though the reason why I keep gravitating towards those mediums is because the immediacy of charcoal allows me to see my ideas come to life as soon as I conceive them,” Park says. “I sometimes make read more
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The Evolution of the Hand-Painted Movie Posters of Ghana – Hi-Fructose Magazine
(Above: Aliens movie poster with a winged Giger Xenomorph. Photo courtesy of Ernie Wolfe. From the book Extreme Canvas, Death Wish 4 becomes a monster movie in this hand-painted poster. Photo courtesy Brian Chankin and Deadly Prey Gallery, Jurassic Park poster depicting a “bonus scene” not shown in the movie. Photo courtesy Brian Chankin and read more
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Free Form: The Art and Adventures of Erik Parker – Hi-Fructose Magazine
I like to back off and let a painting breathe, rather than make a move for the sake of making a move.” CS: Is that a typical way for you to work? EP: I think so. I’m an additive kind of artist. I keep adding, I don’t really subtract. If I’m going to put something read more
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Macro Verse: The Paintings of Cinta Vidal Allow us To Become Gravity-Defying Voyeurs – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Vidal, as such, hopes that her paintings have the opportunity to hang in every possible alignment so that viewers have the chance to see the perspective of every figure. This total devotion to breeding empathy is the foundation of her art. Her prime directive is not creating versatile art, though that is a by-product. The 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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