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Tender Interactions Emerge from Wood in Fumiya Watanabe’s Delicate Sculptures — Colossal
My work is like a diary, like a poem,” says Fumiya Watanabe, who translates daily experiences and emotions into poignant wooden sculptures. Based in Gifu, Japan, the artist studied wood carving during university, then later with a master Inami artisan. Honing a technical understanding of the medium prompted Watanabe to immortalize things he saw and experienced into delicate artworks.The artist spends time doodling in his free time, cataloguing things he has seen. “My feelings appear in various forms,” he tells Colossal. “Events in my daily life, things from the past, people around me, and the dogs and cats I live with also come to me…. I am not trying to convey some big message in my works. I just give form to what I feel. I want the viewer to freely interpret and enjoy them.”Watanabe’s work will be on view in a solo exhibition in Tokyo at msb gallery from June 13 to 23. Find more on the artist’s website, and follow updates on Instagram.
Source: Tender Interactions Emerge from Wood in Fumiya Watanabe’s Delicate Sculptures — Colossal
Richard Ayodeji Ikhide at Candice Madey, New York | Contemporary Art Library
Documentation of Richard Ayodeji Ikhide at Candice Madey, New York is available at Contemporary Art Library.
Source: Richard Ayodeji Ikhide at Candice Madey, New York | Contemporary Art Library
Monday Musings — 27MAY24
There’s more great stuff (not political) here: https://www.saatchiart.com/neozero
His statement:
I am from Portland, Oregon and I am an artist here in the Pacific Northwest. Most of my work is figurative in nature but extends into abstract expressionism with a focus on portraiture, faces and geometric shapes.
Here’s Geir Opdal: http://geiropdal.com/inks-2/
This is my online museum and store. You can wander from room to room and listen to conversation between paintings. You may also buy a signed print or an original work.
Wolff Land is the geographical state of my imagination. In my mind it is an actual place where islands are limned in gold as the sea tongues up fantastic shores.
Sphinxes wade through clear golden water among huge fields of grass (Sphinxland), hybrid dream creatures have multi canvas adventures (Catspider) and sometimes faces of friends show up (Portraits). The stories are driven by movement and color: stars unfol)d in vertical clouds over a mountainside
of blue thistles (The Mermaid’s Feet), a man wanders through a falling down house as birds fly through his heart (Waltz). But always I try to paint the
impossible: Light—light of the sun on objects, on water, the light of stars, the light around an amazing event; the light of love.
And, finally, here’s something from me:
Kirsty Elson Transforms Driftwood and Detritus into Whimsical Animal Sculptures — Colossal
For artist Kirsty Elson, a sliver of of driftwood or a scrap of metal is more than just a piece of trash.
Source: Kirsty Elson Transforms Driftwood and Detritus into Whimsical Animal Sculptures — Colossal
Juxtapoz Magazine – A Wavy Place: Gabrielle Garland Gives a New Perspective
Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection – The Marginalian
His paintings, loose and bright, become analogues of how abstract yet vivid the most interior experiences are — amorphous shapes saturated with feeling, blurry arrangements of contrasting parts of the self.
A Vibrant Rascality of Shenanigans: The Fantasticalicizm Of Anna Mond – Unquiet Things
The creations borne of Anna Mond’s marvelously strange brain noodles are gleefully grotesque, wickedly cheeky, ghoulishly precious brouhahas with a through line of the weirdest humor s…
Source: A Vibrant Rascality of Shenanigans: The Fantasticalicizm Of Anna Mond – Unquiet Things
Raven Speaks Acrylic on Canvas – Etsy
This Acrylic Painting item is sold by khperkins. Ships from Bangor, ME.
BEN VENOM
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Ben Venom graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 with a Master of Fine Arts degree. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally including the Levi Strauss Museum (Germany), National Folk Museum of Korea, HPGRP Gallery (Tokyo), Fort Wayne Museum, Charlotte Fogh Gallery (Denmark), Taubman Museum of Art, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. He has been interviewed by NPR: All Things Considered, Playboy, Juxtapoz Magazine, KQED, Maxim, and CBS Sunday Morning. Venom has lectured at the California College of Arts, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Midlands Art Centre, Humboldt State University, Oregon College of Art and Craft, and Adidas. Recently, he was the artist in residence at MASS MoCA and the de Young Museum. Ben Venom is currently Visiting Faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Also:
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/ben-venom-king-of-heavy-metal-quilting