Sergio Gervacio creates photographs that range from the ominous and unexpected to the whimsical. Strange masked men stand in the darkness, yet wearing a unicorn mask. A selfie taker’s arm clutching the phone is emerging from his open mouth. A figure sits in a tub of milky liquid blowing bubbles, wearing a mask. A strange mermaid doll also happens to be in that tub. What does it all mean? […]
Stills About Scales Scales is a project born from a dialogue between photographer Nicola Spadafranca and a sound designer Enrico Nicola Cascavilla. Cascavilla interpreted Spadafranca’ photographic project “Squame” making a short moving experimental video art using just the photographs. Cascavilla found a story through the photos that he told just with sound and a cinematic editing […]
Rob Kirbyson conceives visceral, often surreal ideas and renders them carefully and precisely with acrylic and oil paints, inks and pencils. The process goes through pencil sketches, color pencil renderings, sometimes to software mock up and then finally to paint. There are no happy accidents.Inspiration is usually borne existentially from within although Rob also likes […]
Haunting and surreal oil paintings by Chicago-based artist Nicholas Nadja. Nadja paints a world slightly off. A still life consisting of veiny-foot vase with sunflowers. A nude, headless female torso hanging from fish hooks and growing roots. (Titled Looking Through The Window Of An Abolished Trinity.) A cubist portrait where the subjects seems to be grimacing […]
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 […]
