May 13, 2013 | painting
No matter how steady I held my camera, the lights inside Alexandra Pacula’s paintings just wouldn’t hold still. They’re now part of an exhibition at Gallery Henoch on New York City’s West Side, arranged alongside the abstracted figurative works of Gary Ruddell. The two create a balance between people and landscapes, rural and urban.
Alexandra gives us the urban landscapes – dynamic shots of New York City that set a dizzying scene in motion – the paint wet like the city and the lights of buildings and cars streaming like we’re racing across the sky. The multicolored lights are a manmade rainbow in the dark – a testament to advancements in technology and architecture.
(Click photos to enlarge!)
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Oil on Canvas, 59″ x 59″
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Oil on Canvas, 74″ x 84″
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Oil on Panel, 11″ x 84″ (overall)
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Oil on Canvas, 46″ x 34″
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Oil on Canvas, 46″ x 46″
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gallery photo
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Oil on Canvas, 68″ x 48″
For more from Alexandra Pacula, see her website.
These photographs were taken at her current Gallery Henoch showing, on view until May 25th in Chelsea, NYC.
Open Tuesday – Saturday 10:30am-6pm, 555 W. 25th Street
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May 10, 2013 | science/tech
Online art is an interesting concept, especially since that means it can be accessed anywhere by anyone with an internet connection. I’m not talking about pictures of sculptures and paintings posted online, but art with “website” as its medium – the art of coding that manifests in a webpage with a simple interactive function. Andrey Yazev has been making website art for a while now, using JavaScript and GUI like scroll bars, check boxes and tables to create interesting, beautiful visuals that visitors can interact with.
My favorite is the check box explosion page that turns one little check into a cluster. That cluster drops to the bottom of the screen before exploding into tiny bits and it’s so adorable and simple every time. There’s also a couple where you play with cubes and another that will just make you dizzy, but all are fun to figure out.
See more of Andrey’s work on his website.
Source: dresslab.
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May 1, 2013 | illustration
Each of Cyril Rolando’s graphic illustrations creates it own landscape of wonder, taking your eyes to colorful places buried deep in imagination. He uses a lot of ocean which tends to set each scene on the shore – a dramatic place where land meets water.
In some works the water transforms into something else, becoming dresses and music that add a conceptual component to these bright effortless works.
Cyril Rolando is a 28-year-old digital artist and clinical psychologist living in southern France. He began drawing on his computer in 2004 and is completely self-taught, using only Photoshop CS2 and a Wacom tablet to create these incredible ethereal scenes.
On his DeviantArt page he writes,
“My artistic approach is set between surreal and fantasy style… in one word : Otherworldly… I like the absurdity, the creativity and the enchanting universes, where colors bring more emotions than thousand smiles or a million tears. I am curious of life. I admire the work of the time, the evolution of societies, the change of thoughts, the human revolutions….how drops after drops are born oceans. I choose the pseudo Aquasixio to put together my favorite element with my favorite digit. My characters are often lost children or in quest for their truth (and not THE truth). Their stories are quite sad but the darkness of life is more inspiring than happy and safe people, in my opinion.”
He says he doesn’t consider himself an artist, just a Photoshop user trying to tell a story with a picture, and his fulltime job as a psychologist allows for more distance between him and his work.
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For more of Cyril’s work, see his Tumblr and DeviantArt page.
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