February, 2012
Olivier Chomienne’s “1842″ Series
via the Behance Network
Tags: avant-garde goth, black lace, corsetry, corsets, fashion editorial, fashion photography, flour-white face, gloomy color schemes, hauntingly beautiful, haute couture, headdresses, neo-victorian, portraits, red, red and white, sea
A Portrait of Nana Rapeblossom by Akif Hakan Celebi
Breathe, Wounded Child 11 by Akif Hakan Celebi
Model: Nana RapeblossomThere’s something I just like about this.
Tags: akif hakan celebi, expressive, lolita-esque, portraits, strange beauty
“In the Trees”: A Twin Peaks Art Exhibition
In the Trees was an art exhibition featuring art inspired by David Lynch’s television show Twin Peaks, for its 20th anniversary. It opened on February 12. These are my favorite works from the show (you can view all of them here):
Audrey by Stella Im Hultberg
The New Girl at One-Eyed Jack’s by Chris Mars
Mrs. Lanterman’s Daughter by Chris MarsTags: art shows, chris mars, colorful, david lynch, hauntingly beautiful, macabre, realism, stella im hultberg, unnaturally colored flesh
Jessica Harrison’s “Breaking” Series
In this series of ceramic sculptures, artist Jessica Harrison undermines and perverts the kitschy sentimentality of porcelain figurines by “breaking” them, casting a macabre twist on the familiar decorative art form. 19th-century ladies with vacantly blithe expressions hold their own severed, gory-edged head in their lap, gaily dangle their bloody eyeballs above them, and with fleshless, skeletal face recline daintily on a chaise longue. I would love to have these doll-sculptures in my home, they are such clever miniature subversions of prim and happy porcelain figurines, having a dimension of interest that the traditional harmlessly sweet figurines never possess.
Tags: blood, ceramics, conceptual, dolls, evisceration, exposed anatomy, figurines, gory, installation art, macabre, porcelain, sculptures, sinister arts and crafts, skeleton, victorian, weird sculptures
Fairy Tale Art by Courtney Brims
Detailed, delicate, and meticulously crafted, the beautiful, gently surreal drawings of Courtney Brims portray twists on fairy tales, featuring maidens entwined and fused with nature. She cites her influences as “Victoriana, ghost stories, old photographs, daydreams and nightmares.”
Tags: alice in wonderland, animals, flowers in hair, illustrations, little red riding hood, modern fairy tales, nature, realism, snow white, soft color, surreal, victorian, woodland creatures, woods
Bandages and Trauma: The Art of Kwon Kyung Yup
Tags: bandages, emotive, expressive, flowers, hauntingly beautiful, pastel, photorealism, teardrops, trauma, white
Xooang Choi’s “Islets of Aspergers Type VII”
This is amazing.
From artist Xooang Choi’s 2008 Islets of Aspergers Type VII exhibition.
Tags: bizarre, conceptual, distorted bodies, flour-white flesh, installation art, life-sized, photorealism, sculptures, surreal, virtuoso, weird sculptures, xooang choi
Momocreatura
From Momocreatura’s Website: “Her jewellery explores the boundaries between reality and fantasy through the depiction of fairy-tale inspired images. Influenced by European antique jewellery of the 16th-19th century and post-war Japanese subculture, her references combine to create figurative macabreobjects.
They are more like 3D illustration or wearable miniature sculptures rather than fashionable jewellery. The silver and gold pieces are finely handcrafted assemblages of child-like imagination, suggestive of ambiguous, twisted humour.”
Tags: animals, conceptual, jewelry, macabre, nature, sinister arts and crafts, spooky animal-themed jewelry, wearable art, woodland creatures
Ray Caesar – “A Gentle Kind of Cruelty”
Ray Caesar (see my previous post on him here) is currently exhibiting a solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, entitled A Gentle Kind of Cruelty.
Images from the show below via Blood Milk, Hi-Fructose, and Arrested Motion. I love the beautiful detail shots taken by JL Schnabel of Blood Milk, which show the true marvelousness and beauty of Caesar’s work as it would appear close-up in person.
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, art shows, colorful, cute/creepy little girls, doll-like, dollflesh, femininity, hauntingly beautiful, historically inspired, innocence/menace, interiors, lolita-esque, monsteresque, neo-victorian, pop surrealism, ray caesar, retro, sexuality, victorian
Joanna Chrobak
Joanna Chrobak is an amazing contemporary Polish artist. Heavily influenced by medieval and Renaissance art, her paintings are beautiful, surreal, strange, with an old-world sense of stateliness, and filled with mystic symbolism.
Tags: (twists on) traditional art, art nudes, classicism, distorted bodies, joanna chrobak, macabre, medieval inspiration, mystical, realism, renaissance, surreal, symbolism, triptychs, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, virtuoso
