Month: April 2017

Meghan Howland

Five Paintings by Meghan Howland

Meghan Howland, born in 1985 in Massachusetts lives and works as an artist in Portland, Maine. She graduated from New Hampshire Institute of Art with a BFA and is a Candidate for her Masters in Fine Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Her paintings takes the viewers into a seemingly dark fable world where she leaves them purposely to their own thoughts without telling an explicit story. Her work mostly shows people or objects she is constantly sourrounded by. The recurring bird image served her as a kind of a personal mascot in the beginning. In combination with the rather quiet portraits, the birds act more as a ‘perplexing embrace’ than an unsettling element of distraction.

Hugh Germain

Gifs by Hugo Germain, (Hand Movements), Computer Graphics, Film Gifs

Science student Hugo Germain (aka. Graphonaute) is just 18 years old, but crates animations and visual effects that seem well beyond his years. Though animation is not his primary focus, Germain spends his spare time mixing live action footage with various 3D tools to create quirky visual effects and experiments.

Mikko Lagerstedt

Photography by Mikko Lagerstedt

Spending an entire evening under the stars in near pitch darkness, photographer Mikko Lagerstedt captures spectacular landscapes of frozen tundra and misty mornings of Iceland and his native Finland. With a camera mounted on a tripod he takes a multitude of exposures as the light gradually changes. Certain elements are then stitched together digitally and enhanced with Photoshop and Lightroom. The resulting images are a result of hours of photography, editing, and a keen sense of color and composition to create heavily modified images that are almost hyper-realistic.

Joel Rea

Joel Rea, “Forces”

Joel Rea was born in 1983 and graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2003. He has exhibited his work in Australia and the United States and has been acclaimed for his oil paintings in many prestigious art awards through out Australia. In 2013 he was selected for the Archibald Salon Des Refuses exhibition in Sydney, the Black Swan Award for Portraiture in Perth, the Fleurieu Landscape Prize in Adelaide and is the winner of the 2013 ANL Maritime Art Award in Melbourne.

Storm at Sea

Artist Unknown, Title Unknown, (Storm at Sea), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

“Let me only say that it fared well with him as with the storm-tossed ship the miserably drives along the leeward land. The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that’s kind to our mortalities. But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of lan, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through. With all her might she crowds all sanil off shore; in so doing, fight gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks all the lashed sea’s landlessnesss again; for refuge’s sake forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!”

–Herman Melville, Moby Dick, or The Whale

Fong Qi Wei

Fong Qi Wei, “Buffalo Road Evening”, 2017

“I am fascinated with the intersections. Intersections are places where boundaries break down, and these are areas where really interesting things happen. Boundaries are comfortable and static. Intersections are troublesome, but nevertheless worth exploring. In particular, I am interested in the intersections of the sciences, art and technology.

A result of this fascination is that I use a very technological medium (digital photography) to make art. In turn, the art I make do not fit comfortably into the traditional classifications of art. Photographic galleries call my work paintings, while traditional galleries specialising in paintings call my work photographs.

For me, what does it matter as long as I can show that scientific ideas like space-time can be beautiful (as in my Time Paintings), or that anatomy can teach us to look closely at beauty (as in my series Exploded Flowers).

Buffalo Road is a bustling road filled with stores selling groceries, mobile devices, jewellery and more. Situated next to the Little India MRT station (the entrance of which can be seen on the left); the human traffic on the street is never ending, especially on weekends. The human element in this piece was challenging do create in a time painting, and I am rather satisfied with the result.” – Fong Qi Wei, Singapore Photographer

Tohy Cragg

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Sculptures by Tony Cragg

Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949. He worked as a laboratory technician at the Natural Rubber Producers Research Association before attending Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, Cheltenham College, and the Royal College of Art, London.

Tony Cragg lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany. An artist of great international acclaim and immense energy, Cragg has developed more possibilities in the making of sculpture than any other sculptor since Henry Moore discovered the ‘hole’ as positive space. He has employed more materials than most, and tested them to their limits through a wide variety of means, so that he seems to be one hundred sculptors at any one time.

Cragg’s contribution to the debate on contemporary sculpture practice is considerable. Early works of the 1970s were mostly made with found objects through which Cragg questioned and tested possibilities. Later pieces demonstrated a shift of interest to surface quality and how that could be manipulated, and a play with unlikely juxtapositions of materials. Results vary from the exquisite to the grotesque, from the refined to the crude, in bronze, steel, plastic, rubber, glass, wood, plaster and more.

Matt Smith

Matt Smith, “Half Over, Half Under”

“Physalia Physalis” – Bushrangers Bay, NSW, Australia

Originally from Britain, Smith immigrated to Australia after falling in love with the country’s Pacific coastline. It is here that he perfected his unique over/under shots. Mr Smith’s striking photographs have attracted international attention and earned him the title of Nature Photographer of the Year, BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year.