Art & Graphic Design
Caribbean Art and Caribbean Artists produce work that is varied. Subjects include the everyday way of life, Caribbean architecture, and memories from childhood, to musical instruments such as the steelpan. Festivals and celebrations such as carnival, masqueraders, all of which are colorful, dynamic, energetic, grand and dramatic, are themes too. Abstract, impressionist, contemporary; they run the full gamut of themes and ideas. They capture that which resonates with them in the most appealing of ways. The islands of Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Cuba, Haiti, Dominica, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and The Netherland Antilles are all overflowing with artistic talent that goes beyond the boundaries of their shores.
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Artwork by Linn Olofsdotter
Linn Olofsdotter, from Sweden, has explored many mediums before solidifying her career in the illustration field. After getting her education in both advertising and graphic design in Europe and the US, she moved to Brazil to start up a motion graphics studio along with her husband and creative partner. More recently Linn worked as a senior art director at a Boston advertising agency. During the beginning of her career she used her skills as an illustrator to help brand TV networks such as Fine Living, MTV and Anime Network amongst others. Nowadays Linn works independently creating artwork for a number of clients in the Fashion, Advertising and Editorial fields such as Oilily, La Perla and Bon Magazine.
She was born in Sweden, worked in Brazil and is now settled in the Portland area. The prolific illustrator and mixed-media artist Linn Olofsdotter is a global citizen of the most interesting kind. Her own life in different locales gives her many sources of inspiration and most likely helps her flex her illustration muscle to meet the needs of a vast variety of clients.
Her work has appeared in Computer Arts and Bon Magazine; she’s created T-shirt graphics for Levi’s, wall murals for a hotel in Los Angeles, CD covers for artists and illustrations for Oilily and La Perla. Nearly all of her work has a collage-like feel, with many layers, nuances and media. The somewhat surreal and psychedelic look of some of her pieces attests to her ability and willingness to trot not just the globe but regions beyond.
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Creative London Street Art For a Great Cause
Creative duo Kirsten Rutherford and Lisa Jelliffe from London’s Brothers & Sisters agency has a current poster installation “Making the invisible visible” that hit the streets of London this past weekend.
It is a collaboration with the Berlin-based, three-person photographic street art collective Mentalgassi in support of Amnesty International.
The London poster campaign is specifically in support of Troy Davis, a man described as having “been on death row for 19 years in the USA, despite serious doubts about his conviction.”
The posters, depicting a close-up Davis’s face, are mounted on fence railings that disguise the posters so that the face behind the bars is revealed only when viewed from an angle. View the video.
The three posters are located at 4-7 Great Pulteney St, 21 Great Pulteney Street, and 5 Berners St (all W1). - Bill Tikos
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Artwork by Francoise Nielly
Françoise Nielly’s massive, colorful portraits are delicious to look at. Even more wonderful – and particularly infuriating is to watch her create them. In a beautiful video posted on her site (see below), she, in her confident, strong hand, wields her painting knife shaped like a miniature garden trowel, and makes painting look easy like cake frosting. She paints her vivid, passionate canvases — some as large as 78 x 25 inches (195 x 62 centimeters) -- from black-and-white photos, further proof of her unfailing ability to interpret light, shadow, hue and tone by applying brilliant colors and daring strokes.
Born in Marseille, brought up near Cannes and Saint-Tropez, and now living in Paris, Nielly is at home among bold contrast and dazzling light. To add to her likeability, here is the list of her loves: Life, wide open spaces, sushi, blue lagoons, the Internet, humor, books, Paris, New York and Vancouver. - Tuija Seipell
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Via: The Cool Hunter
Installation Art by Gabriel Dawe
Gabriel Dawe's colorful 'Plexus installation is currently showing at the Dallas Contemporary in Texas.
The construction is made out of gütermann thread, wood and nails attached at either end to blocks of wood, the effect is like a real-world version of computer generated imagery. Stunning.
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Gabriel Dawe
Dallas Contemporary
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Artwork by Theo Altenberg
Theo Altenberg has been active in so many artistic genres that it seems like a simplification to call him a painter.
There is an intriguing drama in his oils-on-cardboard that hints to his other talents. In these seemingly random splashes and smears of mixed oily color, the viewer finds him- or herself looking for scenery, people, recognizable forms.
Whether this was Altenberg’s intention or not is irrelevant. What matters is that it gives us pause. We look. We see. The 59-year-old Altenberg was born in Mönchengladbach, Germany, and lives in Berlin. He is an actor, singer, painter, photographer, writer, performer.
Links: Theo Altenberg
Via: Cool Hunter
