Brno Del Zou

Brno Del Zou has a beautiful series of photography based portraits. In these works, he explores many different perspectives while displaying them all on one plane of vision. He sees his work as an exploration of cubism.  The result is a complex “collage” displaying the many facets of an individual.   Link to work: http://brnodelzou.ouvaton.org/v2/27-2/portraits-en-photosculpture/

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

In this series of collages, featuring fashion magazine cut-outs, Yazan Setabouha explores the immense attention outer beauty receives in our society. By crumbling the cutouts in an unsymmetrical manner, she aims to show that “judgment is easy” and that “beauty should be shaped within us”. Handle of artist’s Instagram, where her photos are found: @yazan.setabouha…

Fused Faces

An artist I’ve recently come across, whose work I enjoy greatly, is Loribelle Spirovski. She is an Australian artist whose work fuses portraiture with abstract oil paint. The result is a fascinating set of portraits with incomplete facial features. Spirovski explains that as the child of immigrants, she uses her art to explore the question…

Pulse: Yet another example of data visualization

Over Thanksgiving break, I went home to Washington DC and visited the Hirshhorn, where I saw an interesting exhibit called “Pulse” by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Pulse was highly interactive and fused together biology, data science, and art. At the center of the exhibit was the theme of identity, with the idea of the heartbeat being…

The Plant that Heals May also Poison

This weekend, I went to the ICA and saw Ree Morton’s exhibit. Her works were centered on themes of motherhood, personal growth and pain. They all carried a feminist undertone. What I liked about the exhibit was the blend between different artistic  modes of expression, such as poetry, theatre and visual arts. Many pieces were…

“A New Rembrandt”

Following our conversation on artificial intelligence and art, I thought it would be appropriate to include this article in the website. Recently, a computer analyzed 346 Rembrandt paintings and produced a “unique” and “new” painting using the typical Rembrandt characteristics (the subject was a older man, wearing black clothes, etc.). This poses the question: is…

Airing My Dirty Laundry In Public

Artist Polly Nor has recently launched a new exhibit in London, titled “Airing My Dirty Laundry in Public”. Like many of her previous works, this exhibit focuses on expressing difficult topics such as anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues– topics we usually keep to ourselves– through a very honest and exposed way. It also focuses on personal…

Spectacular Simplicity

I’ve always been drawn to gesture drawings and one line drawings. One artist I’ve always followed is Frederic Forest.  Frederic Forest is not particularly “famous”, but he has gained a lot of attention in the “insta” world. His work is composed of singular lines- he specializes in complex figures like people and breaks them down….

Up, Down, and Around?

Recently, I’ve come across German artist Georg Baselitz’s work and frankly, I love it. He paints what many around him do– people. But there’s a catch to it: his subjects are drawn upside down. Is there any objective reason why subjects must be drawn right side up? Does it make it any less of a…

Art is the word

This summer, I was in Santa Cruz, Bolivia and came across a nice outdoor gallery. The featured artist was Claudio Gil. He is from Rio the Janeiro and specializes in calligraphy. I thought his work is interesting because, in my opinion, it shows how arbitrary our alphabet and communication system is. (Photograph was taken by…