Zachary Logan: Body Exploration

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Through drawing, and installation practices, Contemporary Canadian Artist Zachari Logan explores the intersections between masculinity, identity, memory and place. Previous work related to Logan’s current practice involved the investigation of his body as singular site of exploration. In recent work, his body remains a catalyst, but no longer the sole focus. Employing a strategy of visual quotation, mined from place and experience, Logan re-wilds his

Jerry Uelsmann: Imagery Of The Unfathomable

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Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. While attending public schools, at the age of fourteen, there sparked an interest in photography. He believed that through photography he could exist outside of himself, to live in a world captured through the lens. Despite poor grades, he managed to land a few jobs, primarily photographs of models. Eventually Uelsmann went on to earn a BA from the

Martijn Van Strien: Brutalist Outerwear

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If ever the worlds of fashion and science were located on two different sides of the universe, Martijn van Strien is well on this way to assemble them together into one perfect dark harmony. He creates a world where anything is possible and constantly changing. Urban becomes rural, ugly turns into beauty and rainbows come in black and white. Ever future-focused, his aim is to

Kimiko Yoshida: Zen Baroque

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Artist Kimiko Yoshida left Japan and based herself in Paris where she has been continually exploring gender and the body through her on going series of self-protraits. These large sqaure photographs depict the artist in a series of poses and costumes, each with a mostly monochromatic colour theme. yoshida ‘s monochrome approach is described as a ‘disappearance’. As she describes ‘art is a subtle process

Kour Pour: On The Silk Road

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Kour Pour (born 1987) is a young British artist of part Iranian descent based in Los Angeles. He specialises in painting carpets. An exhibition of his paintings at the Untitled Gallery, New York, generated intense interest. Pour’s canvases take months to prepare. Each is based on a particular rug or carpet that he has researched from exhibition and auction catalogues. The canvas is mounted on

Katherine Roberts-Wood: Curious Perceptions

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Repetition was the basis of Katherine Roberts-Wood’s graduate collection, which explores whether there is “some natural instinctive evolutionary reason to be attracted to recurring forms.” Roberts-Wood has produced visually complex structures, built up from recurring structures that occupy a space between the conceptual and the wearable. “I aim to balance complexity with a simple rule such as repetition,” she says. “To create an aesthetic that

Dr. Moog: Out of Time

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Science and art, physics and music, come together and come alive in one place. You know where. We’re here today not just because people like synths, or electronic music, or even music itself, but because the advancement of technology depends on kids learning about science and math. That was certainly the history of Bob Moog himself. What he got as a student opened up the

Michele Ardito: Biophilia

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“As a child I watched, mesmerized and attentive, the life that teemed in the bushes grew wild in the cracks of the concrete, an entire microcosm of life that vibrated between tiny and cramped spaces, places that with imagination became huge, thousands of times larger than my body, wrapping like a jungle impenetrable. When my imagination carried me in that dimension, I could feel the

Vincze Miklos: The Broken Toy

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Vincze Miklos collected a series of photographs featuring abandoned toy factories that may cause us to pause and wonder what really hides inside our toys. Some of the abandoned factories still have doll heads waiting for their bodies on assembly-line equipment. Broken dolls litter the floors of other factories. Broken toys, signs, and colorful surrounding sit among the decaying structures and dirt. The images are

Kevin Francis Gray: A Veil of Darkness

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Kevin Francis Gray (born 1972) is an Irish artist living and working in Pietrasanta, Italy. Gray was born in Armagh, Northern Ireland. He studied t the National College Of Art and Design, Dublin (1995), the School of Art Institute, Chicago (1996), and he completed his MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London (1999). Gray is a figurative sculptor, who works predominantly with bronze and marble.