Electric Sheep Introduction Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver. – Wikipedia First created in 1999 by Scott Draves, the Electric Sheep is a form of artificial life, which is to say it is […]
In Between the Passing…
This post is by Scott Schultheis, a painter based in Philadelphia, PA. This is a short piece of writing about Choreographic Fellow Tommie-Waheed Evans’ new composition In Between the Passing…, a piece which is being performed at BalletX’s Spring Series 2017, at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. It might be unwise — a literary version of an […]
Chris Boyko Abstract Surrealism
Chris Boyko paints bizarre, strange, and unusual works. Each painting represents a hidden reality from the artist’s subconscious. These representations skirt the boundaries of surrealism and abstraction. Form and shape emerge from the paint. Nearly recognizable and figurative, yet remaining alien, beyond reach, ambiguous. Shapes or sculptures resemble figures or images found in wisps of smoke […]
17 Mind-Blowing Surreal Artists you Need to Follow on Instagram
Is your Instagram knee-deep in narcissistic selfies? Acquaintances you don’t dare unfollow? (It would be impolitic.) Motivational quotes by your in-laws? (Yeah, he just discovered multi-level marketing & thinks he’s an entrepreneur.) We need to talk: you need to follow some artists. And before you think, “Ugh, I do, and it’s unbearable.” No, those are Artistes. […]
Zeitguised’s abstract, surrealistic, strange, video art
Holy strange eye-candy Batman, what is that? NFW! WTF? It’s Zeitguised again, making magic. Pure, magical, computer generated abstract art. Delicious candy for your eyes. (We originally covered Zeitguised here in 2013.) And wow. It doesn’t get weirder than this. Watch Zeitguised’s mind-altering videos with sound on. It multiplies the effect. Geist.xyz Animated Gif Stills: AN […]
Mohammad Zaza
Mohammad Zaza, Syrian artist, was born in Riyadh in 1987. Growing up in an artistic family, he started drawing and painting at an early age. After completing high school in Saudi Arabia, he moved to Syria in 2006 to study at the faculty of Fine Arts in Aleppo University. He held his first solo exhibition […]
Mars 1
Mario Martinez (MARS-1) paints painstakingly detailed psychedelic/visionary artwork inspired by biology, mysticism, and architecture. The work is abstract and non-figurative, and tends to have a somewhat limited color palette. I’m not sure whether the artist would appreciate a comparison with Alex Grey. Although they are in the same solar system, the two artists are also as […]
Micah Ofstedahl’s Surreal, Biological Landscapes
Micah Ofstedahl paints what appear to be abstract surrealism. But the paintings are inspired by discoveries of science such as single-cell organisms, the structure of a bee’s eye, or anatomy at the cellular level. These are subjects that biology and microbiology continue to explore, from the neurons in our brains to the fabric of the universe. In this sense, Ofstedahl’s paintings […]
Jarek Kubicki Digital Paintings
Polish artist Jerek Kubicki creates painterly, mostly monochromatic digital paintings. The work feels almost like the demonic lovechild of Jackson Pollock and Zdzislaw Beksinski. I love it. It’s brilliant. It appears as though Kubicki is painting on his photography, or photographing his painting (or both) and melding digital and organic seamlessly together. Recurring themes include the […]
Zdzislaw Beksinski surreal landscapes and abstract surrealism
Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor, specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism. Beksiński did his paintings and drawings in what he called either a ‘Baroque’ or a ‘Gothic’ manner. His creations were made mainly in two periods. The first period of work is generally considered to contain expressionistic color, with a strong style […]