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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Esteban Schimpf

Esteban Schimpf is an abstract multi-media artist from Bogotá Colombia. Now he lives and works in LA. Schimpf's "work explores the relationship between authority and form". Schimpf creates mixed-media pieces, paints, and takes photos. His mixed media works are made of acrylics, oils, packaging styrofoam, adhesive tape, enamel, and paper-mache. Schimpf takes photos of pretty cool people against patterned backgrounds and his paintings and mixed media pieces have great texture and colors!

http://estebanschimpf.com

Friday, May 15, 2009

AJ Fosik

AJ Fosik makes crazy cool wooden animal sculptures! His animals are often wielding dangerous weapons and have snarling mouths full of ferocious teeth. His sculptures have great depth, texture, colors, and shapes. Fosik's art is inspired by his background in street art and signage. To make his artwork, Fosik arranges "hundreds of pieces of individually cut, varnished, and painted wood".

Fosik doesn't have his own website but check his work out at http://tiny.cc/0B08f

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Patricia Piccinini

Patricia Piccinini is a world famous Australian artists. Her breakthrough moment was when she represented Australia at the Venice Biennale. Piccinini creates sculptures, videos, drawings, installations, and more. Her work is all very intellectual-exploring issues such as bioethics, bio-technologies, consumer culture, and the environment. I'm not going to lie- some of her sculptures that mix humans and animals are very grotesque- but they are incredibly creative and realistic. She creates her sculptures out of silicone, fiberglass, human hair, leather, plywood, clothing, nylon, plastic, wool, polyester, bronze, and much more.

Check her out at http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Focus on the Arts 2009

Every other year at my school we have an amazing 3 day, 3 night event called Focus on the Arts. During the nights we have Opening Night, Art Night, and Dance Night. During the 3 days students get to sign up for a total of 18 workshops, performances, demonstrations, or lectures by amazing professional artists. These artists consist of visual artists, actors, musicians, dancers, writers, architects, film makers, journalists, reporters, and much more! Some people who have come over the years are Oprah Winfrey, Anthony Rapp (Mark from Rent), Gary Sinise, the Chicago Jersey Boys, the Joffrey Ballet, and so many more locally, nationally, and internationally known artists. Here are some of the good pictures I got. A lot of them are from Art Night... I actually planned the whole night and got tons of the artists!

http://www.dist113.org/HPHS/focus.htm