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artist: theo jansen

Artist/kinetic sculptor:

Theo Jansen has been creating wind-walking examples of artificial life since 1990. What was at first a rudimentary breed has slowly evolved into a generation of machines that are able to react to their environment: “over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.”

– From Wiki.

Strandbeest.com

Monday, July 11th, 2011 | No Comments »

Today I stopped by Pile of Craft, a Baltimore craft fair sponsored by the Charm City Craft Mafia. I’ve always liked this event in particular because, in addition to the usual crafters, there’s always a strong contingent of illustrators and artists. I was just going to browse a little and didn’t expect to buy anything but then I saw this:

Garden Secret

And was immediately drawn to the table. Turns out it was Jaime Zollars and I highly recommend you go check out her site and portfolio. For serious. It’s the sort of stuff I would do if I had any imagination or patience/talent for drawing and painting.

I don’t have a lot of extra money kicking around so I was restricting myself to one print and after much debate I actually ended up with this:

The Maze, She Breathes

Omggzz. I also really liked these two and it was a very painful decision. But I guess I can order prints from her site later.

Lift

Squid Island Cove

JaimeZollars.com.

Saturday, June 25th, 2011 | 1 Comment »

artist: tomoko shioyasu

These are all paper:

Blessing Wall

Blessing Wall Detail

Waterfall

As a student, Shioyasu was fascinated by the veins in the leaves of Rumex japonicus found all over campus. The veins were so delicate, yet had such dynamic forms, and she once tried cutting them out one by one with a utility knife. She describes this as the inspiration behind her current works, created on the theme of “nature,” and falling into three categories: cutting works, which she creates with fine, overlapping cuts in large, wide sheets of paper using utility knives, soldering-iron works, in which she creates images by melting holes in special synthetic paper, and drawings, using acrylics or charcoal. Common to each of these approaches is a significant amount of delicate and repetitive work performed by hand.

From SCAI the Bathhouse