Angela Ferreira

Angela Ferreira is a Portuguese artist established in Cardiff, Wales. From an early age, she has loved to travel. Many of the countries she has experienced have had a strong influence on her works. But she says it is the green valleys and the magical atmosphere of Wales in particular that inspire her...

The object-driven touch: Robert Wechsler

What can we control?What is the part of reality that is actually controllable?Say, when we take things in our hands.Applied Geometry (2004)There is a point where reality simply will not be tampered with. It says only so much.And the beautiful thing is when someone manages...

Using walls (p.2): the Splasher controversy

There are several excellent Polish sites about art. They focus mainly on Polish art and the Polish contemporary art milieu, and have a certain tendency toward a specialized and a high-brow discourse, but they have lots of good discoveries and insights and are a great reference...

Using walls (p.1)

Can emotions shape our morality? Not only they can, but according to the great Portuguese neuro-scientist António Damasio, they do. Damasio has recently published an article in Nature which further develops the idea that our moral choices are very closely related to our...

Figuratively speaking

Finding the human form is easy. If you know where you're coming from. In some of Meinbert Gozewijn van Soest's recent work the head becomes just an apparently chaotic mash-up of lines and stains. One is tempted to think this is a head. One is tempted to empathize. But if...

Artsing human-scale design

The Tea Bag garden is a landscape made of stacked bags of garden soil. The bags, padded like a bench, are essentially soft plant containers. There were holes in it for planting herbs. Bey had planted mint at Z33 and left a boiler and tea set so that visitors can sit and...

Jason Young's Curling Stones

The thing that fascinates me about the Geostationary Banana Project, beyond the craziness and the scale, is the fact that it is a constant work-in-progress and is already functioning in the art world as a model of a work-to-be. This way of working is very inspiring.There...

Texas Space Banana

At this stage, the blue-prints for the construction of the bamboo structure were finalized. The whole structure was developed with 3D software. As a result of this development, we know the amount of bamboo poles needed, we can zoom in to conflicting joints and see the details,...

Light the pong

Marlene Dumas: taking sex seriously

Marlene Dumas, whose watercolor painting was featured here a few days ago, is worth going back to.Not because she is the most expensive living female artist. And not because she "embraces the totality of the human experience" (wow, people still actually write this sort...

Featured painting by June Parrish Cookson

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June Parrish Cookson

From an early age, while traveling and living in various places, I spent a majority of my time beach combing and exploring the countryside. These formative years of observation instilled a passion to capture the natural world through my art.While attending college in Southern California, my first artistic...

Two self-portraits

created through the apparently famous automatic net art generator...

Two African portraits

found on Artthribe: Mustafa Maluka, I've decided my fate (2007, oil and acrylic on canvas)Marlene Dumas, Portrait of Kendell Geers (2004, watercolour)Is it just me, or is the skin a haunting issue? This transparency, this impossibility of getting there, of touching, of...

Flexible sofa

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Tracy Helgeson

I grew up in Rochester Minnesota, and when it came time to apply for college, I knew that art school was the place for me. I attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design for two years and then studied illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) although I always...

Art for all - and vice versa

If you bring it in, we'll hang it, said the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, which is about to move to another space. The reaction to the initiative, called aptly Free For All, was overwhelming: dozens of people cueing up in the cold weather with their works....

Challenging the world, one billboard at a time

He's been around for a while. In 2002, for instance, he made the world a better place by putting flags on high-tension electricity lines.Or another delicious installation, called The Real Thing, where he distilled Coca-Cola to get drinkable water:Helmut Smits is a fighter....

Disposable dressing gown

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