Pop Art Thursday – The Ruins of Detroit, By Yves Marchand And Romain Meffre.
The Ruins of Detroit. Book coming soon.
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Pop Art Thursday – “The Johnsons” By Kirk Demeris.
Picking a favorite from Gallery1988's Crazy for Cult show would be impossible, but this is a good candidate. Check out all the pieces for sale, then spend the rest of the day sad, because most of it has sold out.
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Pop Art Thursday – Jonathan Bartlett’s Hipster Sportsmen.
I love the motion captured in Jonathan Bartlett's paintings. He's like a pissed-off Norman Rockwell. Details are vague about how to buy his work, but you can dig through his blog to find out.
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Pop Art Thursday – Poster For “The Lost World” By Dan McCarthy.
For an Alamo Drafthouse showing. Sold out (at $35 each), but still great great great. There's always eBay...
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Pop Art Thursday – “The White Cosmonaut” by Jeremy Geddes.
For a child of the 80's, the work of Jeremy Geddes automatically brings to mind the work of Robert Longo, only with spacemen. These misplaced travelers, somehow stuck in urban landscapes and ethereal worlds seem to symbolize a person hermetically separated from the world outside, a visitor misplaced. Signed and numbered prints start at $150. Originals are out of your range.
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Pop Art Thursday – Молоко (Milk) By Andrey Razumovsky.
Russian photographer/digital artist Andrey Razumovsky is a wonder. Embracing the hyper-stylized spirit of new Russian design (go get Night Watch or Day Watch from Netflix), Andrey's works combine sex and attitude with singular unique visions involving digital manipulation. The Milk series is staggeringly clever (Note: contains nudity). Digital alteration of these photos, turning the models' clothing into fluid, is both seamless and inspired. Call it porn or a clever parlor trick, I don't care. I think it's art. So there.
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Pop Art Thursday – Selections From “Under The Milky Way,” By Ross Berens.
Good design is art, and Ross Berens is very much an artist. Under the Milky Way is a series of nine prints, representing the nine planets of our solar system (Yes, Pluto too. Go Ross!). Both informative and beautiful, these works would be just as much at home in your hallway as they would in a classroom, and I think that makes them awfully special. Apparently, these will be available soon on the Print on Demand site InPRNT, so you can get copies for $25-$80, depending on size. I'm not the biggest fan of the Print on Demand concept, but it's better than nothing.
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Pop Art Thursday – “Nearer-Me,” And A Selection From “Run Into Flowers,” By Nirrimi Hakanson.
Nirrimi Hakanson is Seventeen. Seventeen. This Australian girl, armed with a camera and a computer, is trying to become a fashion photographer. I'm astonished that no one has signed her up. While some of her work would be at home in magazines like Seventeen (pun intended), the majority of it is just too good for selling clothes. I've long been a supporter of the idea that an artist needs to pay the bills, so I hope she does get her dream job, just so I can see what she'll then be free to create as an artist.
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Pop Art Thursday – “F80 – 76″ By Mike Orduña.
Mike Orduña is part of the new generation of artists as adept with a computer as they are with a pen or a brush, and thank goodness for that. Sites like Deviant Art are loaded to the gills with aspiring artists and illustrators (many mediocre, but who cares, as long as they're creating), so it takes a lot for me to be stopped dead by their creations. This one did it. The blend of portraiture and abstraction here should not work, but instead you're treated to a sense of motion and activity that makes the figure seem alive. The Japanese Shodo/Franz Kline-like brush strokes combined with digital detail leave me filled with wonder. Good work. You can buy a digital print, but Mike should really consider a signed print or lithograph.
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Pop Art Thursday – Polish Movie Posters.
Today, I'm including a genre, and not an individual. I'm no expert, and I don't know what caused Polish design to head in the way it did, but I'm happy as hell for it. I mean, any culture that can bring out the existential angst of Crocodile Dundee 2 deserves our respect. There's a great gallery of 50 different selections at Well Medicated. You can buy them online for as little as twenty bucks.
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