The image of a large sea creature stranded inland, far from the comforts of its native habitat, the ocean, has got to be one of the most heart-wrenching sights imaginable. Created by Argentinean sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas for the 2009 Biennial of the End of the World, the life-size blue whale lies stretched in the woods . . . → Read More: A dead whale in the forests of Argentina by Adrián Villar Rojas   Bold, 2011 Archival inkjet print 11 x 14 inches Edition of 2 With the eye of an experienced forager, San Francisco-based artist Cassandra C. Jones collects photos from anonymous individuals on the Internet, and assembles them into works of art. For her current exhibit, “Photos Taken #drawings, ” now showing at the Eli Ridgway Gallery in San . . . → Read More: “Photos Taken #drawings” by Cassandra Jones at the Eli Ridgway Gallery in San Francisco  Helsinki based artist Anu Tuominen created this colorful installation using only crocheted potholders. In much of her work, Tuominen develops a visual language out of everyday domestic objects. The Finnish artist says, “Everything is still as it was, and yet somehow more meaningful . . . → Read More: A wall full of crocheted potholders by Anu Tuominen  "FKTS17" (2012) Blood, copper preserved on plexiglass, UV resin. 24 x 18 x 3 inches Blood. A harbinger of disease. The lipstick shade left after the kiss of death. Appearing in all manner of art, literature, and culture, both as a substance and a symbol, blood sustains and fascinates us. New York-based artist Jordan Eagles capitalizes . . . → Read More: “Haemoscuro” works in blood by Jordan Eagles at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art in San Francisco 
Kansas City-based artist Anne Lindberg builds room-sized installations made from thousands of strands of threads suspended from the wall. Taking into consideration each unique space and its light sources, Lindberg painstakingly maps out the precise angles and extensions which will create the seamless gradients in the radiating works. In one of the pieces, Raume Yellow, over . . . → Read More: Room-sized installations composed of thread by Anne Lindberg 
In the photographs of Lee Eunyeol, the stars have fallen to the ground. The celestial lights find shelter in the crevices of the cracked earth, they nestle together forming hay stacks in the farmlands, they cling to wildflowers beside a steam. The Korean photographer/installation artist is currently showing this work at the Gana Art Space in . . . → Read More: “Starry night” light installations by Lee Eunyeol 
German artist Cornelia Konrads builds site-specific installations in public spaces around the world which challenge our perceptions of gravity and time. Using materials like rocks and branches, the artist is most well-known for creating stacked objects which appear to be in the midst of a skyward ascension or a downward fall. Konrads says, “I like to . . . → Read More: Land art that defies gravity by Cornelia Konrads  "Centralized Division" (2012) Gouache on paper. 50 x 130 inches. As I lean in to examine the work of artist Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian, I hear the pounding of footsteps of characters from an action movie chasing one another through dark alleys, atop buildings, around bustling traffic. The high-speed maneuvering, car crashes and rapid change in point-of-view perspectives . . . → Read More: “Maximalism: Utopia” drawings by Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian at the Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco 
I love these hyper-expressive portraits by French painter Françoise Nielly. Filled with fluorescent colors and bold strokes, some faces appear gripped by anxiety, some are hiding secrets, some want to strike-out at the next person they see. Nielly lives and works near Montmartre in Paris and just finished her latest exhibition at the Villa del Arte in Barcelona. . . . → Read More: Portraits by Françoise Nielly 
San Fulgencio, Spain-based artist Gabriel Rufete transforms buckets of Euro coins into stunning figurative sculptures. Sometimes stacking the coins one on top of another, other times welding them together edge-to-edge, Rufete creates expressive, often incomplete, interpretations of the human that tantalize the . . . → Read More: Figurative sculptures composed of Euro coins by Gabriel Rufete |
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