Irish-born, London-based illustrator Laura Callaghan creates characters. Using eye-popping colour and minute detail, she depicts women who command attention. Her female subjects never smile, holding serious, steady expressions as they sit, stand, or sprawl in rooms bursting with pop culture and literary references. Full of energy and details, her illustrations give the impression of a retro comic stripor vintage fashion…
A topless woman with cat-like shades and a half-smoked fag sits posed and proud. A man with an impressive beard, arms crossed and covered in tattoos gazes candidly back at the viewer. A blond girl dressed in fur appears as though she's ready to cause some trouble. The images you see may appear as photography but take a closer look.…
Emmy-award winning artist, Wayne White, may not be a household name, but his remarkable talent has been seen by millions around the world. One of his most notable contributions to the world of art was designing the set for Pee Wees Playhouse, a hit television sitcom of the late 1980s. Some of his most recent works of art involve humor,…
Slip into a world of optical illusion, folded fluorescence and unexpected juxtaposition with the otherworldly mixed media collages of Boston-based artist Mike Parisella. At times a psycho-nautical excursion to outer space and at others an intimate look at female beauty, @slimesunday is an artistic experiment with the world of cinema 4d, pixel sorting and data bending. Mikes work is an…
Daggers, lasers, or maybe just a steely glare. All things that can be shot from one's eyes. Figuratively, of course... unless you're a superhero. Artist Carolina Amorim traces the gaze of her models with coloured thread. Some travel in straight lines, others in geometric shapes. A daydream, perhaps? Lost in thought? There are no vacant stares here. In any case,…
Legend has it that Medusa had a terrifying face and snakes for hair. If that wasn't enough, anyone who looked at her would turn to stone, which probably makes for a lonely existence, one where the joys of eye contact, say nothing of sharing a sidelong glance with a co-conspirator, would never be known. Perhaps artist Javier Piñón sympathized with her…
Flowerslush, beautiful and ethereal. Huge, full blooms never get old. Japanese artist Yutaka Kitamura created time-lapse videos that capture the twist, shake and bounce of each flower as it blossomssomething impossible to observe at normal speed. Part of a collaborative art project entitled "Touched by Strangers," the hypnotizing images depict the movement of individual petals unfurling, as they open up to reveal the stamen and pistil. It's nature's striptease.
The things we do in our everyday routine might seem like little tasks but have you ever wondered if they could be associated with greater life views and common feelings? Brazilian artist Rachel Denti, puts a new spin on satirical art by communicating raw emotions, feelings and thoughts through her graphic designs of daily occurrences such as looking at shampoo…
Kellesimone Waits is an artist just like her parents; singer-actor Tom Waits and painter-filmmaker Kathleen Brennan. With such creative genes running in the family, no wonder Kellesimone Waits turned out to be a prolific artist herself. Her work is highly centered around the representation of women; beautiful, mysterious, playful and sometimes even slightly deranged... "I was interested in making a…