Roadshow

hubert blanz

Roadshow, 02, c-print, diasec on aluminium, 80 x 120 cm, Hubert Blanz, 2007

via bibliodyssey and polarinertia

Solaris

Christiane Baumgartner, Solaris II, Original woodcut printed on kozo paper, based on a video-still, 140 x 240 cm

Collages of Wilfried "Sätty" Podriech

Collages of Wilfried "Sätty" Podriech

via ephemera assemblyman and blood milk jewelry

A Family In Disguise

Yu Jinyoung A Family In Disguise A family in disguise (Child 1), 2008pvc, mixed media100 x 20 x 23 cm via notcot

Birdies

heidi anderson, Birdies Acrylic on panel36” x 30”2008

Over the Rhine - "Desperate for Love"

Tracing the Origin

Chinese Artist Cui Fei working in New York, who uses natural elements to evoke calligraphy.

Cui Fei Tracing the Origin V_III Photo-lithograph on papyrus, Varied Editions of 25 2008 35.5" x 25" via buro-gds inspirations

Look at the World

from FORTUNE magazine archive - MAPS, beautiful collection of maps dated from the 2ed world war period till the 60's

SYNTHETICA an invented land, October 1940 the relationship between the synthetic substances

THE LAND AS WE USE IT , June 1943 Richard Lindner

a great section for illustrations such as this via strangemaps and portent

skull

Ken Kelly

"Skull" 2003 acrylic, enamel and oil on panel 90" x 144"

IRAN

Riccardo Zipoli from his Iran series

solitery trees via bldgblog

eclipse

eclipse3, originally uploaded by justine ashbee.

by Justine Ashbee

Earthly Delights

Mark Flood lace paintings. The paintings are created by tearing, shredding, or otherwise torturing the lace, soaking it in paint, and carefully arranging it across the canvas.

MARK FLOOD Paradisal Fragment, 2006 Acrylic on canvas 53.3 x 40.6 cm

marginalize spaces

RICHARD WRIGHT Untitled (3.3.2009), 2009 Gold leaf on paper 83 x 116.5 cm .

Wright's primary manner of working consists of installations or interventions, often placed in unconventional or marginalized spaces of a site—ceilings, cornices, windowpanes, or the edges of a wall. Using simply a brush and paint, the artist creates his wall drawings on site in a time-consuming and laborious process. The results are improvisational yet precise paintings with designs ranging from organic, tattoo-like forms to geometric line drawings to cosmological sunbursts or constellations.

Presidential Doily

Presidential Doily, 2001 prints by Ray Beldner

Gabo's Butterflies

Scott Hunt Pursuit (Gabo's Butterflies), 2007 Charcoal on paper, 116 x 93 cms

Abigail Reynolds

Studiolo of Francesco I (2008) 42 x 32 cmCut and tiled book plates

via territoiredessens

Blue Head

william kentridge, Blue Head, dry point with hand coloring 47x36 inch

Hiding in the city

by LIU Bolin

Hiding in the city 28 160x131 photo 2006

thanks digitalcuttlefish

Superfine

Linn Meyers - drawings

Untitled, 2008 32"x48", ink and colored pencil on mylar http://linnmeyers.com/gallery.html#

detail via we are sick

Chet Baker "Almost Blue"

Caio Fonseca Pietrasanta C08.20, 2008 mixed media on canvas 76.2 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm

Rose of Bread

Amon Yariv, Rose of bread, color print, 90x72 cm, 2006

Rose of Bread, explains Amon Yariv is made of Bread on a wire.

The flower is in a plastic bottle, the water are yellowish because of the wire's rust. Yariv is telling about what prisoners, coming from old Russia where doing while in prison. They were using plain bread and kneading it, leaving it in water for few days, afterward they were coloring it and flattening it into small red and green leaves. Then they were assembling the "flower" head on a wire and when their Girl Friends came to visit they hand it as a gift.

LOVE/ PASSION/ DESIRE

Marc Petrovic

POTION BOTTLES - LOVE/ PASSION/ DESIRE

Marc Petrovic, 2007 , glass Love (16" x 4.5" dia.), Passion (18" x 4" dia.), Desire 16" x 3.5" dia.

Murmure

Une jeune journaliste de CNN avait entendu parler d'un très, très vieux juif

qui se rendait deux fois par jour prier au mur des lamentations, depuis toujours.

Pensant tenir un sujet, elle se rend sur place et voit un très vieil homme marchant lentement vers le mur.

Après trois quarts d'heure de prière et alors qu'il s'éloigne lentement,

appuyé sur sa canne, elle s'approche pour l'interviewer.

"Excusez-moi, monsieur, je suis Rebecca Smith de CNN.

Quel est votre nom ?"

"Moshe Rosenberg" répond-t-il.

"Depuis combien de temps venez-vous prier ici ?"

"Plus de 60 ans" répond-t-il.

"60 ans ! C'est incroyable ! Et pour quoi priez-vous ?"

"Je prie pour la paix entre les Chrétiens, les Juifs et les Musulmans.

Je prie pour la fin de toutes les guerres et de la haine. Je prie pour que nos enfants grandissent en sécurité et deviennent des adultes responsables,

qui aiment leur prochain."

"Et que ressentez-vous après 60 ans de prières ?"

"... J'ai l'impression de parler à un mur."

Spunk

Jack Strange Spunk 2008 white card mounted on black card 35.2 x 26.4 cm

Decapitate

Amie DICKE, Decapitate, 2007 Mixed media sculpture - Plaster, plastic, black ink marker on shelf20 x 2 0x 30 cm

Tarmac

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Tarmac 10, aéroport de Phuket Town, Thaïlande, janvier 2007 Photographie sur papier Fuji 120 x 180 cm - Tirage à 6 exemplaires + 2 E.A.

A Brief and easy History of Urban form

(partly from notes on the Urban Development as Counterinsurgency lecture by John Duda of the Baltimore Free School)

Grids as a simple way to control the landscape – Stars as a spiky outer shell – Cracks as the fabric within the shell is compressed and densified – Networks as this dense fabric is reopened and ventilated – Flows for the density to drain further – Softness of the regulatory and fiscal pressures that continue to drive the flow – Holes open up as the fabric is vacated …

and now, the dominant formal strategy seems to be all about the infilling or refilling of those holes, along with the repurposing of the scrap left behind.

this text was taken from sevensixfive .

images by Matthew Daren Shlian

pen, 19 x 25 inches (each) 2008

images via interesting site but does it float

Accidental Image

Eileen Quinlan at the Miguel Abreu gallery

Accidental Image, 2007 UV laminated chromogenic print mounted on Sintra 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

I wish these things would happen; they'd be beautiful

Yes this is the work's title. in many cases titles makes me tick, move, think, like, laugh, want.... this is the case with many Cat Clifford's works

Cat Clifford, I wish these things would happen; they'd be beautiful 2007.

6 ink on carved paper drawings, 1 lcd and dvd with sound2min 27 second loop dvd edition of 3dimensions variable

Schein

David Schnell at the eigen-art gallery

Schein 2008 Oil and acrylic on canvas 290 x 230 cm

Total Reflective Abstraction

"Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism" by Josiah McElheny is a hand blown mirrored glass, low iron, and transparent mirror, instalation at the Donald young Gallery

"If you sit down and reflect on a philosophical idea, you enter a certain kind of state in your mind. If you look at a reflective object and become involved with looking at it, your mind enters a very similar kind of state. So looking at a reflective object and reflecting on an idea might be very similar experiences. My idea was that this could become a metaphor for how art worked, because basically it’s looking at an object and reflecting an idea."(entire interview at the pbs site)

detail via and dailyserving

Lightning Fields

Hiroshi Sugimoto in this series approaches photography like a scientist, experimenting and testing out hypotheses. In his latest series, Lightning Fields, Each image is a unique document of an electrical current. Sugimoto uses a 400,000-volt Van De Graaff generator to apply an electrical charge directly onto his film.

Lightning Fields 128, 2009 Gelatin silver print

via outrepart

Adam Fuss UNTITLED, 1988 Unique gelatin silver print photogram 119.4 x 108 centimeters

Interiors

Ronald Versloot

Arrangement, acrylic, linoprint on canvas 100 x 120 cm 2004

The Imagery of C.G. Jung

The exhibition, “The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology,” opening Oct. 7, at the Rubin Museum of Art will be built around the first public display of Carl Jung’s legendary Red Book.

The Red Book, a large, leather bound, illuminated volume that Jung created between 1914 and 1930, and which contained the nucleus of his later works. While Jung considered the Red Book, or Liber Novus (New Book) to be the central work in his oeuvre, it has remained unpublished till this day, and unavailable for study and unseen by the public.

The volume, exactly the same size as the original, consists of a full facsimile of Jung’s work, printed on the highest quality paper and with exquisite attention paid to reproducing Jung’s calligraphy and paintings as faithfully as possible. via phantasmaphile

The Cave

Charlie Roberts The Cave, 2009 86.5 x 114.5 Inches , gouache and ink on paper

Patterned Portraits

Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva

via booooooom

Swans

by Inna Polonsky,

swans, ceramic, aprox 60 cm high, private collection.

Frau

YVONNE ROEB at the Galery Wilma Tolksdorf

Arché Frau, 2007 Zeichnung, Folie, Diasec 30 x 40 cm