Awesome furry costumes from Estelle Hanania. I also threw in a strange Japanese-looking puppet. Estelle has some nice, dark work (some is literally dark, but most darkly themed), and appears to be French.
November 8, 2009
November 7, 2009
David Hevel
While these sculptures look crazy and ridiculous in photos, I’m sure it’s nothing compared to how they look in real life. Can someone fund a tour for me to see David Hevel’s stuff? It’s probably mostly located in his studio mother’s basement.
November 4, 2009
Erica Lambertson Philippe
My friend Erica has been making these creepy and wonderful dolls. It’s amazing how they look like they’ve been made a long time ago, they have this very old-school feel.
November 3, 2009
Eric Testroete
Eric Testroete made a huge version of his own head for Halloween using a bunch of 3D programs. It’s paper, and glued from dozens of shapes. This is really cool, but I wonder if, while cutting and gluing, he considered going as Lady Gaga.
Website: see some of this other work, too. The Bill Murray head is pretty frightening, though. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
ps. Thanks, Dan Corona!
Cameron Crone
A dear friend of mine and genius. His K-12 series is incredible. Cameron recreated every one of his school portraits and they’re AWESOME. Check out his site for the whole project: www.cameroncrone.com
Sean M. Johnson
Household object sculptures from Sean M. Johnson. I’m all about furniture as portraits of familial discord, especially when the furniture is dangerously hanging in midair. It’s like the sculpture equivalent of half of Philip Seymour Hoffman movies (the dark suburban ones, obviously… not Patch Adams).
Emily Bennett Beck
Paintings by Emily Bennett Beck, which obviously make me think of Lisa and John, (both NSFW, and both recently very pornographic… what happened?), but with an obvious love for celebrity culture (albeit grotesque, but we all know that’s not far from adoration).
Website: My favorite might be the Cameron Diaz one… or the defeated Hillary one.
Jessixa Bagley
Fun stuff from Jessixa Bagley, based in Seattle. She makes comics and drawings about food (and I, of course, love food… so it’s a win-win). I wonder if there’s a special magical way to say her name, since there’s an X in there. Is it like, “Jessiksa”? Or “Yessiksa”? Or “Yessica”? Or maybe it sounds like “Jessica” but looks like a beautiful long-limbed robot (ala Daryl Hannah in Bladerunner)?
Mary Balda
Some nice and bright paintings/cutouts from Mary Balda. I didn’t mean for this to show up (am too lazy to cut them out in photoshop), but almost every piece on her website comes with a price. At least she’s straightforward.
