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Simon Schubert is a German artist and sculptor.
take a look at his Art With Folded Paper. (via)

Pakayla Biehn’s most recent body of work concerns her congenital vision disability, called Strabismus. Her eyesight consists of mutually exclusive images trying, unsuccessfully, to bond into a cohesive impression.

First Solo Show:
January 2010, Every Single Where, Gallery 6, San Francisco (Read More)

also take a look at Pakayla Biehn’s photorealistic paintings

Robin Schwartz: My photographs are drawn from real journeys undertaken with my daughter, Amelia. I am driven to depict relationships with animals but the photographs are not documents; they are evidence of the invented worlds that we explore and the fables we enact together. Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary. (via)

Taлya: I frequently combine the techniques of drawing, painting and digital imaging to illustrate and communicate a non-linear vision of thought and space.

Elinor Carucci, born in Israel 1971: “I can’t show intimacy in any general way, if there is such a thing as general intimacy. I can only say something universal about intimacy through actual intimacy. Mine. The actual real relationships I have with specific people. With these people that I love. The deepest I can reach is within what is most familiar and close.” (via)

The art of SSIN.
Take a look at the artists website and discover how detailed these layered works are.

Paintings and Photographs by 蛙式大人

Alison Watt was born in Greenock in 1965 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1983-88. From 2006 to 2008, Watt was the Associate Artist at The National Gallery in London, an intense period of work culminating in the spectacular solo exhibition Phantom (2008) which explored her enduring fascination with one particular painting in their collection, Zurbaran’s St. Francis in Meditation.

“These exquisitely painted canvases edge further towards the abstract yet had a strange, almost sexy quality which suggested a human presence, or at least absence.”

Michelle Jane Lee’s art is minimalist in form yet muscular in content. There is a complexity, density . . .to put it simply, there is a lot of heart in her often times sparse drawings and paintings. Like a kid in the sandbox with limitless imagination, she builds, telling us stories with images because language fails here, showing us a myriad of ways to be and belong in the world.

A selfportrait with all our friends

Passive aggressive love notes and other unmentionable things

Jin Young Yu: My works are about the invisible people. I wanted to talk about the stories of the people who said, I definitely don’t know them, but they knew me so well. To me, that person was a transparent existence that neither did or didn’t exist.
My works feign expressionless faces. They are holding their tears back and swallowing them, or they try to put on a cool face despite the traces of tears on their faces. Or simply, they seem to have something hiding behind the hurried pretense of their expressionless faces. Looks on their faces that don’t make people approach them with ease - a subtle look of suspicion and caution keeps others from easily approaching them. (read more)

Walter Martin was born in Norfolk, Virginia and Paloma Munoz was born in Madrid, Spain. They have been collaborating since 1993 to re-imagine the snow globe, taking sentimental keepsakes and making them sinister. As objects, the globes are kitschy as the real things; as narratives, they’re absurd and callous. It’s winter wonderland gone terribly wrong. (via)

Cakeland by Scott Hove is a sculptural installation resembling a collection of perfect delicious cakes– wall mounted, hanging and standing– a walk-through cake environment complete with its own lighting. It is a sweet refuge, an endless kaleidoscopic landscape of cake, a respite from the grinding realities of the outside world. (via sweet station)

Take a virtual tour inside the shrine at Hi-Fructose.

Camilla Engman grew up in a small Swedish town named Trollhättan. This is where she began looking at life from a perspective that most of us see only momentarily. Often through animals or people, Camilla’s pictures inspire their audience with a wide range of feelings. Her work has a knack of allowing you to grasp a notion without robbing you of your personal interpretation, regardless of whether it’s an acrylic painting, paper-on-paper or mixed media.

Benedetta Mori Ubaldini: The pieces i do in chicken-wire come from a childlike side of my imagination. What i love is to create installastions as three dimensional pictures. The simplicity of this material contains the magical power of transparency, that is capable of giving each piece the lightness of an apparition, a ghostlike quality, like a trace from a memory.

My balloon pieces are what i fondly call ‘ugly art’. They deal humorously with sexuality, body issues and everyday life.

A magic merry-go-round takes a little girl on the ocean voyage of a lifetime.

discover more beautifully animated shortfilms on Gobelins website or youtube

Jelly Sunday

Ana Botezatu: “I know it’s not such a big thing this dog…but still”

“ideas in my sketchbook for a new Alice in wonderland”

wowlab 2009 - An installation where reality and imagination blends.

Factory and Fantasy is an experimental installation produced by architects, visual image composers, musicians and scientists. The project outline was to construct a work combining the technology and imagination of each field. The work occupies the space between fantasy and reality and explores the borderline itself.

This was the Trailer to the exhibition, very beautiful

via Anonymous Works

Monotypie

Olivia Jeffries’ Website

Ritual in transfigured time, Maya Deren, 1946

Sibylle Peretti was born in 1964 in Mulheim-Ruhr, Germany.  She was trained as a glass designer at the School for Glass Making in Zweisel, Germany.  She studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne, where she received her M.F.A.  She is internally known and has had many solo exhibitions as well as museum shows worldwide.  In 1997, she received the Raphael Founders prize.  Together with Stephen Paul Day, she was awarded a Wharhol Grant for artist residency at Penland.  She has taught at many schools in Europe and the USA.  Her work can be seen at the Corning Museum, the American Glass Museum, and many museums in Europe. 

Durgin’s photographs reflect his fascination with the figure as a sculptural entity. His complex arrangements of the body require extreme contortion to achieve an austere effect, as if the figures have been abstracted. The gestures examine his own corporal boundaries as well as those of the performers he works with and are impressive in their ability to seemingly defy physical limitations. Transforming the body into an amorphic object, Durgin uses a large format camera and film to capture the figures so that they appear to be without appendages. Recognizable as bodies, they remain detached from common perceptions of the human form. (Merge Gallery)