JEROME ABRANOVITCH

JEROME ABRANOVITCH is a Montreal based photographer.

"For the past 14 years, he has evolved from an underground artist shooting personal & documentary work to a commercial photographer taking on the worlds of entertainment, sports, fashion and advertising.

Jerome’s inherent nature to seek, explore and be that which is different has gained him the kind of recognition and marketable appeal that can only be attained by such an unconventional and driven individual. The stark honesty of his photographs is testament to who he is as an artist, the eccentric characters that surround him and the intimate bonds they share.

His work and his own image are well recognized in Europe, Japan, not to mention the Americas... at least in the right circles. Jerome moves seamlessly between object, subject, voyeur, and documenter.

Jerome’s extreme creativity has been immortalized twice in the Guinness World Book of Records; he has been featured in media worldwide such as Ripley's Believe it or Not, the Learning Channel, the Ricki Lake Show, Pro-Sieben in Germany, Medical Incredible in Australia, on top of countless magazines and internet sites. He is also notoriously known as the cover model for the Modcon Books (North American & Japanese editions) documenting the Modern Primitive 2.0 movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Exhibitions include the Quebec City Museum of Civilization and a solo exhibit at Montreal’s legendary underground Foufounes Électriques.

Jerome is currently working on new pieces for his Mannequin Series, as well as traveling the world to shoot his eccentric collection of friends." (JEROME ABRANOVITCH)

Jerome is currently seeking representation.


☁ JEROME ABRANOVITCH
☁ JEROME ABRANOVITCH @ ICON_OLOGY

DOMINIC WILCOX

Field from Dominic Wilcox on Vimeo.

"DOMINIC WILCOX is an artist who works within the territory of the 'everyday'. Everyday objects, environments, buildings, human interaction, no area of normality is out of reach. His work, which is usually layered with an ultra dry wit, places a spotlight on the banal, always adding a new, alternative perspective on things we take for granted. His work has been published and exhibited extensively around the world and he continues to develop his work in all fields of creativity.

After studying a degree in Visual Communication at Edinburgh College of Art, followed by a period of time living in Japan, Wilcox later undertook an MA at the Royal College of Art on the renowned Design Product course led by Ron Arad. After leaving the RCA in 2002, he started a partnership called Mosley meets Wilcox. One major MMW project was a collaboration with Rock photographer Mick Rock which ended in a collection of objects exhibited in Sept 2004.

Since going solo in 2005 Wilcox has worked on his own projects as well as major art commisions for organisaions such as Nike, Vipp and Esquire. In 2009 he started an ideas site called Variations on normal, where he puts his sketchbook ideas and observations. He is currently developing new work, experiments and ideas." (wilcox)

DOMINIC WILCOX
BORN Sunderland, UK
EDUCATION RCA (MA), Edinburgh College of Art (BA)
LIVES AND WORKS London, UK

THE SHOES + LACES PICTURES ARE PART OF A PROJECT CALLED FILEDS : As part of the London Design Festival, Dominic Wilcox has created a field from 400 eco-friendly shoes. Sponsored by Terra Plana, the ethical shoe company, Wilcox has applied a touch of magic to the shoe laces as they rise up in unison and grow towards the window's light.


☁ DOMINIC WILCOX
☁ DOMINIC WILCOX @ ACIDOLATTE

CHRISTOPHE KUTNER

I love CHRISTOPHE KUTNER's photography. And his style is so eclectic that I couldn't decide which series of pictures to present you here. I am presenting the series HOLIDAY, because I liked the softness, love, joyness and hapiness coming through the pictures, but a visit on his site to see his other works is very worth it!

☁ CHRISTOPHE KUTNER
☁ CHRISTOPHE KUTNER @ ECLECTIC COW

BLU///MUTO

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

DANIEL MILTON

"DANIEL MILTON's recent work defies any traditional attempt at categorisation. Photograph, collage, or painting, visual diary or surrealistic venture – the work is a fusion of technique and theme.

Combining his own favourite photographs from many thousands taken each year Milton builds up a digital collage which is then printed on canvas and to which he makes selective painted interventions in acrylic. In the resulting work it can be difficult to distinguish photography from painting and this deliberate confusion extends to the meaning of the work; what is “real” and what is “fiction”? A surreal confusion pervades all; the photographic record often appearing more extraordinary than the painted intervention.

Milton says, “A big inspiration for me is the traces of humans in urban environments. The colours and patterns on a wall after hundreds of posters and stickers have been torn away. Or graffiti tags on an old door.” This inspiration is interpreted in Milton 's work into a contemporary world where rapid change and alienation are puzzles, even predicaments. In his use of contrast and collage, headlong perspective and slight visual distortion of the painted image, Milton confronts the viewer with a world which is in overdrive and where nothing is quite as it seems; history is confounded and order is displaced.

However, any attempt to entirely delimit the thematic in this way meets with a resistance; also making a spectacular, as a contrast to the concrete and steel of urban decay, are paradisiacal flashes from the natural world, represented in jewel-like colour; iridescent fish or flocks of black crows fly through the skies, turquoise waves splash against the edges of the canvas and golden harvested fields retreat into infinity. Thus, each layered image contains within itself the fullness and the completeness of life-experience and this sub-imagery, placed in opposition to the representation of urban despair, introduces the idea of hope implicit in the natural world.

Operating in our artificial borderlands between the industrial and the natural Daniel Milton has created a visual world where nothing is quite as it seems, and yet, much is expressed about what it is to be living in the here and now of our contemporary world." (Jo Rose, Gallery Uusitalo)

DANIEL MILTON
BORN 1974
EDUCATION
2003 - 2005 Art school of Öland , Sweden
2002 - 2003 Blekinge art school, Sweden
2000 - 2002 Various courses in graphic design, Sweden


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CHRISTINA WEST

Great post @ ACIDOLATTE about artist CHRISTINA WEST. Love her work... Check it out!

☁ CHRISTINA WEST @ ACIDOLATTE

SAMUEL FRANÇOIS

SAMUEL FRANÇOIS
Born in 1977 in Pompey (France)
Lives and works in Metz.

"Samuel François can’t settle for a monochromatic approach. His world is neither green nor blue nor black; it is an explosion of colors that would put the most beautiful rainbow to shame. A jokester, his work is like a supercharged cocktail; the artist’s shaker combines his adolescent memories and adult worries.

“When I graduated from art school in 2002, I didn’t really have many artistic referents. They
were mostly graffiti artists whose paths had led them from the street to the galleries. I’m thinking especially about Barry McGee.”

Several worlds come together in his work, from graffiti to the garish and geometric style of the 1980s. The series of felt-pen drawings on paper, We are not from the ghetto features gangster poses, bandanas over mouths, caps worn sideways, hoods and paint, splattered jackets. It evokes the artist’s adolescent fantasies and memories from his natal Lorraine, with a healthy dose of inspiration from American magazines and the first hip-hop videos shown on TV.


☁ SAMUEL FRANÇOIS
☁ SAMUEL FRANÇOIS @ JEAN ROCHARD

ELLA MANOR

Pictures by photographer, ELLA MANOR.

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☁ ELLA MANOR @ ICON_OLOGY

JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER

JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER///INSOMNIOUS
WHERE: 101 Exhibit, NE 40th Street, Miami, Florida
WHEN : October 10 - November 14


JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER (B. 1975) Painter and draftsman from Tennessee, currently resides and works in Los Angeles, California. Though modern in its subject matter, Alexander’s work pulls, still, from the vulnerability, fear, and underlying strength that come from his rural upbringing. Much like good Delta Blues, his work maintains a sense of pain and passion which steers Alexander away from the standard “isms” that, in his words, “tend to muddy up what’s really important”. The result is something heartbreakingly genuine.
"It’s probably not a coincidence that Jason Shawn Alexander, in his bio, mentions the Blues, and that when I first saw his paintings I immediately got a Muddy Waters song in my head. Alexander’s work just looks like it hums along a sweaty slide guitar chord, singing its pain and prosperity through a haze of smoke. You can tell that something bad is happening to or around his subjects, but also that they’re just people so it can’t be bad forever. His gritty, drippy, and dark style lends an ominous air, like a fresh grave, and the subject’s poses humanize the whole thing. This is the whole package." (Brad Martin, contributing writer for Juxtapoz magazine and author of secretstill.com)

☁ JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER
☁ JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER @ 101 EXHIBIT