Tiffany Bozic: Drawn by Instinct
A monograph on the beautiful, lush, brightly colored, rich, scientifically precise yet surreal paintings of Tiffany Bozic, inspired by nature and reminiscent of vintage natural history illustrations, is available for purchase from Gingko Press.
Tags: animals, birds, cephalopods, colorful, fauna, flora, flowers, illustrations, natural history, nature, realism, realistic drawings
Alex CF’s Mythical and Nightmare Specimens
Alex CF painstakingly creates these cryptozoological specimens encased in bell jars and elaborate, gorgeous display cabinets replete with the paraphernalia, notes, and mementos of the scientific ventures that captured these exquisite specimens. He almost creates complete miniature scenes around the specimens: there are reliquaries, study cases, vampire slaying kits, portable bio-aetheric animation laboratories, coffers, and sarcophagi. The specimens are drawn from literary works, including Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dante’s Inferno, H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and Chthulhu Mythos, as well as folklore and legend. The array of allusions to classical eerie fiction is delightful.
He reimagines and renders these cryptic, bizarre, mythical creatures and beings, sirens, faeries, mutants, succubi, devilspawn, atrocities against nature, resulting in specimens that are disturbingly lifelike and real enough to touch. They are repulsive and yet alluringly detailed. The displays also come with beautifully drawn illustrations, which are as fascinating as the specimens themselves.
Tags: alice in wonderland, anatomical illustrations, anatomical-themed, artifacts of the past, autopsy, babies, bizarre, chthulhu, corpses, creature, creepy, cryptid, cryptozoology, eerie, exposed anatomy, fairies, fairy tales, fleshy, gory, grotesque, hunter/hunted, illustrations, macabre, monsteresque, mythos, natural history, religious imagery, sculptures, sideshows, sinister arts and crafts, taxidermy, vampires, vials, victorian, vintage, visceral, vivisected, weird science projects
Cicadian Symmetries: The Art of Aubrey Learner
Aubrey Learner‘s incredibly realistic, detailed drawings are intriguing studies in precision and subtly disturbing grotesqueness. Reminiscent of naturalist illustrations, her imagery combines inorganic elements such as scissors, ribbons, corset lacing, and female undergarments, with insects, leeches, butterflies, snails, and worms. These cryptic, symbolic compositions have the abstruse mystery of installations, and evoke a jarring sense of repulsion and juxtaposition.
Tags: bugs, butterflies, insects, natural history, realism, realistic drawings, scissors
Coe & Waito’s “Jellyfish”
Coe & Waito (Alissa Coe and Carly Waito), who specialize in ceramic art projects, created a beautiful and detailed installation, Jellyfish, first exhibited in the Come Up to My Room show in 2007.
Tags: animals, ceramics, creature, installation art, interior decoration, jellyfish, natural history, nature, realism, sculptures, weird sculptures
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