Upcoming Event: The Mad Potters Tea Party

01.27.11

On Friday, February 4th, the Strychnin Gallery in Berlin, in collaboration with innovative ceramics company The New English, brings you an amazing and unique show, The Mad Potters Tea Party, the likes of which you’ve never seen.

The show features the work of over a hundred luminary artists in the contemporary art world, including Ray Caesar, David Stoupakis, Caitlin Hackett, Camilla d’Errico, Annie Bertram, Saturno Butto, and many more. Artists will present their own individual designs on plates, teacups, pots, and other ceramic items, turning these high-quality craft objects into one-of-a-kind and smashable pieces of art.

Awesome artist designs on ceramic-ware? Porcelain plates and fragile teacups dripping with quirky and decadent art? Sounds like an amazing combo. Everything I’ve seen so far promises a thrilling, delightful, and unique visual experience. “Cupcakes, tea, and magic” are also promised! The show will run until March 8th.

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+ Coilhouse Plates
+ Fine China Autopsy Art

Tags: art shows, ceramics, pop surrealism, porcelain, sinister arts and crafts, teacups

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Cadaverous Beauty: Silent-View Photography

12.27.10

>>Silent-View Photography<<

Tags: avant-garde goth, colorful, corsets, emotive, fashion photography, geisha-inspired, headdresses, latex, neo-victorian, saturated color, teacups

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Toads and Diamonds: The Art of S.Jin

12.09.10

S.Jin‘s gorgeous drawings and watercolors contrast the daintiness of porcelain-doll Victorian girls with macabre sexuality, bruising trauma, and sinister anatomical metaphors. Her delicate, exquisite linework is sometimes accompanied by magical little poems and pieces of writing that exudes her fairy-tale aesthetic.

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Tags: anatomical-themed, animal skulls, animals, antlers, bones, branches, bruises, deer, flowers, innocence/menace, intricate line drawings, modern fairy tales, nature, rabbits, skeleton, teacups, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, victorian

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Reddened Mouths, White Masks, Hungry Fingers

10.29.10

These are ever-so-creepy installation artworks by Israeli sculptor Ronit Baranga
(via Acidolatte):

Tags: conceptual, installation art, masks, sculptures, surreal horror, teacups

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Dolls and Gals: The Art of Caryn Drexl

10.11.09

Caryn Drexl is a remarkable and original experimental photographer based in Palm Coast, Florida. Her photography is conceptual and expressive, and explores themes of innocence, femininity, motherhood, and sexuality. It also has a vintage aspect/aesthetic. Teacups, baby dolls, divested braids of hair (and hair in general), things in models’ mouths are all motifs. Many of her photographs feature her as the subject.

Tea Time

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Tags: 1920s, caryn drexl, dolls, femininity, hair, teacups, victorian, vintage

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