Modern Art
French-born japan-based designer architect Emmanuelle Moureaux has developed ‘toge’ (which means ‘thorn’ in japanese), A modular product that can be interlocked to each other, allowing one to freely create a variety of textural spaces. Its use as an architectural module can be applied in the formation of walls or partitions, or for creating free-standing sculptural pieces. To demonstrate its structural potential and adaptability, Moureaux created a wedding dress composed of 500 of the colorful thorn-like bulbs at designtide tokyo 2011.
‘Toge’ comes in 14 color varieties as well as white. the main materials it is composed of is piano wire and epoxy resin.
Each individual module weighs 2 grams and measures 147 mm in diameter.(via)
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 22 November, 2011
Morgans Hotel Group and Paula Cooper Gallery are pleased to announce a permanent outdoor installation of photographs by Sol LeWitt at Mondrian SoHo, entitled: SOL LEWITT: On the Walls of the Lower East Side.
The installation on the wall of Mondrian SoHo (150 Lafayette Street) consists of 120 photographs of New York’s Lower East Side taken by LeWitt in 1979. The grid of photographs is grouped in threes that have been printed on vinyl and installed on a wall measuring 20-feet high by 60-feet wide. This marks the first time that this body of work has been exhibited in New York.
In continuing Morgans’ history of collaborating with both distinguished and emerging artists, the Sol LeWitt installation by the Lafayette entrance to the hotel will mark the launch of a new initiative to further enhance the guest experience through their relationship with art, and to embrace the neighborhood’s downtown surroundings.
Images by ©Estate of Sol LeWitt / ARS. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 21 November, 2011
Caroline Wright is a modern artist who graduated from Brown in the year 2004. She has a double major in Visual Art and Art History. After she finished college, she went to Paris to further her studies in fashion design. She wound up living in an abandoned state building in Belleville where artists from all over the world come together.
She overhauled a studio out of several secretarial offices that were locked down since the year 1980s using a crowbar. The residents of the abandoned building defended their project on a constant basis to the mayor of Paris. As the youngest and the only American contemporary artist, she also defended herself as she confronts a lot of cultural differences.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 4 November, 2011
Modern art has taken a whole new meaning if you take Mike Perry into the scene. He is a modern artist based in Brooklyn and he was also a designer. He surely does many different things but his form of contemporary art makes him hard to miss.
As a contemporary artist, his work is more on the innovative side and unusual but even then his modern painting has enough commercial appeal that usually results in big companies hiring him. He specializes on geometric shapes and utilization of bright, bold colors achieved as mixed media art.
Mike Perry as a modern painter has always been compelled by ways on how the hand-drawn informs the world and how it deepens the modern visual culture. He usually works for a number of editorial and commercial clients including big names like – Apple, The New York Times, Target, Dwell, eMusic, Nike and Urban Outfitters.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 31 October, 2011
Starting her drawing skills in early childhood, Iveta Abolina showed off how she can trace over pictures from magazines and books. Typical of a modern artist, her skills were developed throughout the years through painting classes in her high school years. She completed a degree in Design and Technology in the Parsons School of Design. These experiences have helped her hone her skills in design as well as improved her interest in the modern art world.
Her contemporary art style illustrates the search for beauty and balance yet in chaos. If there is something to describe her art work, it would be imaginative and colorful. Her almost obsessive attention to details and use of vivid colors has become her trademark as a modern artist. She made use of abstract floral shapes which made her designs – a work from a contemporary artist.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 25 October, 2011
“The mind is a busy place.” This is according to modern artist and painter Tom Hlas. He creates modern art by working out his thoughts. If contemporary art is an outward physical expression, for him the process of creating one is usually turning inward, self-questioning and internalizing with a goal for clarity and meaning to the things the mind creates.
Tom Hlas is a contemporary artist specializing in abstract painting using acrylics as medium. Any onlooker will view his abstract works and be able to draw inspiration from it afterwards. He created his masterpieces through breaking beyond the physical boundaries and enjoyment instead of just relying on ones thoughts and feelings as he creates modern painting.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 17 October, 2011
Painter Christopher Swift has all the tricks of an architect’s trade in his artist’s repertoire. Approaching two-dimensional space the way a building’s designer sees a plot of land, his original acrylic paintings use flat geometric shapes to create abstract landscapes—in dynamic and vivid blocks of solid color.
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 14 October, 2011
Born in Nottinghamshire in 1973, graphic designer Samantha Neal launched her own collection following 15 years experience in the design industry.
Neal came up with the idea for her innovative 3D wall art while designing a pocket for appointment cards. ‘I was working for a client whose logo is four curves, almost like a four leaf clover,’ she recalls. ‘I cut the logo into a piece of card and then accidentally brushed past it. The cut part was slightly raised and I thought, “Oh, that reminds me of a butterfly.” So I started experimenting with cutting other shapes, which eventually led to me making a large-scale piece of wall art my own house.’
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 12 October, 2011
“Pixtel Shapes is a modular concept for the room that lets users themselves create: walls, furniture, sound dampers, figures or decorations. In an office space, in a work room, or at home, Pixtel Shapes is an encouragement to play that generates creativity and movement.
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 11 October, 2011
Traci Bautista is a modern artist specializing in collage, fabric and mixed media art. She is the creative director and owner of treiC Designs. Apart from immersing herself on modern painting, she also loves travel across the country and offer workshops and classes internationally on various subjects like handmade books, art journals, surface design and mixed-media collage.
She completed a degree in Bachelor of Science from Woodbury University majoring in Graphic Design and Marketing. Before she became a full time contemporary artist, she worked on various jobs such as graphic design artist, event planning officer, marketing director, professional cheerleader, elementary art history teacher, tradeshow manager, Web designer and fashion designer just to name a few.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 3 October, 2011
