Andy Ness

Andy Ness's work is like flowers. Weird, organic, intricate and sensuous.
He got both his BFA and his MFA in sculpture, at Pratt and RISD (in that order).




I like his works on paper a lot better.

Elliot Hundley

I have crazy dreams - that's a fact. And looking at these remind me of my dreams, not because of the content necessarily but more because of the landscapes. That's the most riveting element of my dreams - the architecture and the landscapes. They contain strange large buildings or massive waves that just blow my mind.

Anyways so this is Elliot Hundley. He received his MFA at UCLA and currently lives and works in LA. That's where I would live as a professional artist. Here is a statement about him from http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/elliot_hundley.htm.

"Mining the nostalgic and sentimental qualities of his eclectic materials, Elliott Hundley’s collages create condensed ‘dreamscapes’, entwining the personal and symbolic into friable mythologies. Hundley engages with the dramatic in the staged emotiveness of his structures and in the performative element of their intensive making process. From a distance, Hundley’s Hyacinth exudes a painterly expressiveness, which dissolves on close inspection into clusters of tiny figures, magazine clippings and bits of fabric precariously held in place by pins. Using formalism as a platform for narrative structure, Hundley’s exquisitely delicate consternation transforms the act of looking into an adventure of exploration and discovery."

 

 

"Balancing evolutionary chaos with blueprint precision, Elliott Hundley’s The Hanging Garden… presents a topsy-turvy architecture of convoluted lines, intimate mark-making, and swirling colourful forms, populated by masses of little people. Comprised of two images – one on both the front and underside of a transluscent sheet of paper -- Elliott Hundley’s The Hanging Garden… presents narrative drawing as a palimpsest, quite literally over lapping information, so that one surface contains the faint suggestion of the other. This idea of fragmentation and continuation is reinforced through the torn edges of the paper, diversity of materials and disjointed drawing structure. Unfolding with the charisma of epic fairytale, Hundley’s drawing melds the familiar and foreign, his consuming process and encyclopaedic references mirroring the free flow expanses of imagination."

Check this out. 

 

My question is, how does he make it so crazy and yet so composed?

NABIL

These videos make me feel...wistful. And nostalgic for something I never had.*
http://nabil.com/film

*I know this technically makes no sense, but it makes sense to me. 

Things of Importance

This video is interesting. At first it isn't all that interesting because you're like, cool, it's the Sun (I feel like "sun" should be capitalized) spinning around like a billions times. But then when you think about it more and more it becomes surreal. That's the Sun. THE SUN. Also watching the solar flares is fun and the word "heliophysics" is an awesome word. 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/24/178772609/stunning-video-3-years-of-the-sun-in-3-minutes

Here are some cool facts about the sun (via Wikipedia):

• it's almost perfectly spherical
• it "consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields." That is so great. 
• it formed about 4.6 BILLION years ago as a result of the gravitational collapse "within a large molecular cloud."
• it controls the Earth. That seems like a "no duh" but it's something that I've never thought about before. It controls our weather and like all life (photosynthesis)

Of course there's a ton of other info about the sun - just read the Wikipedia page if curious - I'm no expert.

Daniel Gordon

It looks like this guy paints things and then photographs them...(?) They're really cool - kind of like realistic cubism. 

 

http://wallspacegallery.com/artists.html?id=2,186&cv=1

Aaron Morse

There's something crazy, narrative and almost psychedelic about these that I really enjoy.

He got his MFA at the University of Cincinnati and now he lives and works in LA. 

Here's a spiel about him from an exhibition of his at the Hammer Museum: 

Aaron Morse is a Los Angeles-based artist whose paintings depict epic collages of imagery pulled from sources as divergent as 20th century American politics, 19th century Romantic literature, comics, art historical painting genres, and current events. Morse weaves these various themes together to fabricate symbolic, alternative worlds in which time and history seem at once recognizable and otherworldly. Animals and humans intermingle in colorful, surreal landscapes where space is disjointed and turbulent. 

http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/17

Alexander James

I like the strong references to art history and the baroque/northern baroque movement that are present in his work. 

The translucency and realism yet abstraction present in his work is also beautiful. 

Carlson Hatton

I just fell in love with Carlson Hatton.

He lives and works in LA and from his artist statement it seems like his work is based from "collective conscious."