Shinny Dumplings- “Hikaru Dorodango”

  Artist Bruce Gardner one day read about a Japanese art from called ‘Hikaru Dorodango’ and ever since he immediately decided to pursue to perfect this art form. Dorodango is sphere made out of  simple water and mud ball that the artist tries to  mold into a perfect  circular object.

DIMITRI TSYKALOV

This Russian artist based in Paris uses materials to create sculptures of body parts or objects that are in injunction position  to  the real materials of the subjects. Fruit for body parts, wood for skin, meat for masks or guns. More of his art @ http://dimitritsykalov.com/#intro   JAWS | 2005 | lambda print, 50x50cm  © Dimitri Tsykalov…

Jeff Koons ‘ Puppy

  The American sculptor Jeff Koons is mostly renowned for his pop art and cartoon style sculptures and installations, such as his  iconic Balloon Rabbit piece. But in his work Puppy he combined high tech computer technology with traditional gardening techniques, to create this giant West Highland terrier in colourful plants and flowers. It is a visually…

Yayoi Kusama’s Art

Polka Dot Love Room Every body must at some point come across her art on the internet. She’s been working with many different artistic media such as  visual art, performance, film, literature, and design for more than 6 decades. We have seen her work posted on this blog, but her work is so iconic that I had…

Beasts and Bones

In 2004 the William D. Cannon Art Gallery in San Diego, California featured Beasts and Bones: The Cartonería of the Linares Family.   The exhibit was over 70 papier-mâché  (or cartonería) figures either inspired by Mexican Day of the Dead Figurines (calavera) and companioned with (alebrije), mythical dragon-like, griffin, and gargoyle like creatures that look like…

Swans by Mike Fields

The paper folding project has had me thinking about the time in fourth grade when we read that book about a girl with leukemia who folded a thousand swans in order to make a wish. When we did the initial paper folding, before we got into the thick of Processing, I also tried making a…

Korean Graffiti x BGM

In the fall of 2016, Korean graffiti artist Chris Chanyang Shin started receiving international internet attention for his murals of African American women in traditional Korean hanbok. he has traveled the world creating these murals, one of the latest spots as of October 2016 being in San Francisco. He has also painted other murals of African American…

Hana Coufalová Fashion Art Designer

Yes, I don’t know if this is a real category. If it isn’t it should be. Even if I’m in the mist of changing carriers , I can’t help myself being drawn to fashion in some sort of form. It might be out of habit, after over 10 years in that field, or I truly have…

The Getty Museum

I had read about the Getty Museum for the first time on a SAT Reading Comprehension test and honestly never thought I would get to see it. Over break, I had the pleasure of walking up (and down) the large hill to the Getty Museum. Granted I spent most of my time in the garden,…

Academy Award-Winning Animated Short: Piper

  Trailer I recently had the opportunity to visit Disney HQ in Burbank, CA where I learned that not only had Pixar been acquired by Disney, but also that they had also won an Oscar in this past awards cycle. The idea behind the award-winning Piper stirred from the writer and director, Alan Barillaro, quite…

Polly Morgan Artist? Taxidermist? Both? Both.

Born in 1980 living in east London, Polly Morgan has spoken out to try to end public stigma about out in-vitro fertilization,  often through her art exhibitions such as  Still Birth (example on the bottom). I am a Tim Burton, Edgar Allan Poe fan type and has always been the weird kid that liked the unusual…

Roman Dirge, One of many America’s obscure Artists

 I discovered this artist through a comic book he created called ‘Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl.’  It’s a fun story about a girl that most likely doesn’t even realize that she is dead.  Roman Dirge’s art is a creation of gory cuteness and naive sarcasm translated to canvas and print. I know this might sound bizarre,…