Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature the work of Antony Gormley, Flora Borsi, Herakut, Kyle Stewart, Max Serradifalco, Murray Mcculloch, Scott Marr, Tony Cragg and […]
Herakut: After the Laughter @ LeBasse Projects Chinatown
German art duo Herakut have a new exhibition with LeBasse Projects in Los Angeles. The show, entitled “After the Laughter”, features a new series of sculptures, photography and wall installations by the artists. In conjunction with the opening, Herakut will also be releasing their second book also titled After the Laughter. After a period of […]
Mikhail Gubin: Sculpture
Born in Kharkov, Ukraine in 1953, Mikhail Gubin studied at the Art and Tech College of Zagorsk in Moscow before moving to New York permanently in 1989. Throughout his residence in New York he has had 30 solo exhibitions and participated in more then 200 group shows. “For creation of my wooden sculptures I have […]
Margo Selski: Painting
Washington based artist Margo Selski is known for her “lush Surrealist paintings that quote Flemish painting and 19th century portraiture.” Selski has a B.A. in Studio Art and Art Education Berea College, inKentucky, an Master of Arts for Children S.U.N.Y. Brockport, New York, and a Master in Fine Art in drawing and painting from the […]
Marianna Stelmach: Digital Painting
Born in Warsaw, Poland, 26 year old Marianna Stelmach (aka Vuzel) is a self taught artist who uses a Pentagram tablet and Photoshop to create her digital paintings. Stelmach graduated from an Arts and Crafts High School where she specialized in Jewelery and is currently studying Physical Therapy. To see more, visit Stelmach’s profile on […]
Yong Ho Ji: Recycled Tire Sculpture
Born in 1978, Korean sculptor Yong Ho Ji has a BFA in sculpture from Hongik University in Seoul, and and MFA in fine art form New York University. “Meticulously layering cut strips of tire as the flesh for his “mutants,” Yong Ho Ji models his creatures after endangered animals, mythological beings, and humanoids akin to […]
Tetsuya Ishida: Painting
Born on June 16, 1973 in Yaizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Tetsuya Ishida was a Japanese artist working in Tokyo. Ishida graduated from Musashino Art University in 1996. In his short art career, Ishida’s work was featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions including Christie’s “Asia Avante Garde” Exhibition and The 7th Liquitex Biennale in 1998. […]
Théophile Steinlen: Le Chat Noir
I was thinking about Paris today and it brought to mind Théophile Steinle’s, Le Chat Noir – a poster that I’m particularly fond of. French for “The Black Cat”, Le Chat Noir was a 19th-century cabaret in the Montmartre district of Paris. It was opened on 18 November 1881 by the artist Rodolphe Salis, and […]
Robert Lang: Modern Origami
A very interesting TED Talk about modern origami and how it is being used to create not only beautiful sculptures but to solve technological problems ranging from consumer products to the space program. Robert Lang merges mathematics with aesthetics to fold elegant modern origami. His scientific approach helps him make folds once thought impossible — […]
Art-E-Facts: 5 Random Art Facts XI
1. Group f/64 was a group of seven 20th century San Francisco photographers including Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston who shared a common photographic style characterized by sharp-focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western (U.S.) viewpoint. The group formed in opposition to the Pictorialist photographic style that had dominated much of the […]
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 69
Your Monday Mixx – Enjoy!
Egon Schiele: 1890-1918
Born on June 12, 1890, in Tulln, Austria Egon Schiele was a major figure of the Austrian Expressionist movement. Schiele began drawing as a child and in 1906, at the age of sixteen, attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. During these years, he was strongly influenced by Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession artists […]
Andrew Wyeth: 1917-2009
Andrew Wyeth: July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009 Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth was created in 1948. This painting is one of the most familiar American works of the 20th century and is currently on display at the MOMA in New York. “Set in the stark landscape of coastal Maine, Christina’s World depicts a […]
Lyle Carbajal: Painting
American artist Lyle Carbajal uses his paintings to explore the unintentional. “Through the use of color, bold line and image placement he hopes to capture the naiveté of daily life.” Influences include the Brut and Cobra groups of past and present, the naïve artists of Latin America, graphic designers and illustrators, religious painters, and children. […]
J. C. Leyendecker: 1874-1951
Born on March 23, 1874, in Montabour, Germany, Joseph Christian Leyendecker was America’s most popular and successful commercial artist in the early decades of the 20th century. In 1882, the Leyendecker family immigrated to Chicago, Illinois where his mother’s uncle had founded the McAvoy Brewing Company. After studying drawing and anatomy under John H. Vanderpoel […]
Alphonse Mucha: 1860-1939
Alphonse Maria Mucha was born on July 24, 1860 in Ivančice, Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic) and is known for his prominent role in shaping French Art Nouveau. Mucha loved art as a child but studied on a choral scholarship at the Church of St Peter in Brno, the capital of Moravia. In […]
Under The Weather
I’m a little under the weather today. In the meantime, please enjoy the wonderful work of Moonywolf on deviantART.
Nicholas di Genova: Illustration/Painting
Born on April 1, 1981 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, Nicholas di Genova graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in 2005 and currently lives and works in Toronto. Influenced by anime, comic books, Otaku culture, and animal compendiums, Di Genova’s work features an encyclopedic range of constructed creatures ranging from soft and […]
Stefanie Gutheil: Painting
Born in 1980 in Ravensburg, Germany, Stefanie Gutheil currently lives and works in Berlin. Gutheil has a BA and an MFA from the Universität der Künste in Berlin. This young artist’s work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions around the world. To see more of Gutheil’s work, visit the Mike Weiss Gallery, […]
Leszek Andrzej Kostuj: Painting
Polish artist Leszek Kostuj. Kostuj graduated from the Pedagogy and Art Department at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Although he prefers oil and acrylic painting, Kostuj’s mediums also include drawing, and traditional and digital graphics. Starting from small realistic drawings, Kostuj’s paintings are inspired by surrealism and figurative abstraction. “My art is in constant change, […]