Tabaimo was born in Hyogo, Japan in 1975. Then in 1999, she graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design. She now lives and works in Nagano, Japan. Her work consists of ukiyo-e woodcuts, manga, and anime. However, her drawings and animations take a surreal and nightmarish twist. Often involving turtles coming out of toilets, dismembered hands, and bodily mutations. A lot of her work is sight-specific, were it is attuned to the architecture and the viewers within it. Tabaimo starts her work process by drawing out linework on paper and then she scans the images onto her computer. She then colors them and proceeds to make the animation.

Guignorama

Her animation Guignorama is a visualization about the sensations she gets from atopic dermatitis in her hands. Atopic dermatitis causes a person’s skin to itch, when this happens to Tabaimo she feels like insects are crawling around under her skin. In this animation, she wanted to convey the sensation of something living under her skin. This kind of thing can be seen in some of her other works as well. A lot of them show hands scratching each other and/or insects climbing on or out of them.

Yudangami

“I don’t just put the work in front of them and make it a comfortable experience for them – they need to be proactive in their viewing if they are to understand what I’m saying. I think the viewers’ stories themselves are the work, so by making the work together in a sense, by setting up spaces which cause the viewer discomfort — spaces which have elements in them that need to be overcome — the works become a participatory experience.”

“Teleco-soup”Hanabi-ra

Public conVENience Dolefullhouse

Leandro Erlich

Leandro Erlich was born in Buenos Aires, Argintine, in 1997. His primarily known for his opitcal illusions and other uncanny creations. Through his artwork he upets what is natural and normal. Erlich got the attention of the art world at a young age. In 1998 he took part in the Core Program and in just a few years he represented his country at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. He then went on to attend the Biennales for the next few years in Istanbul, Shanghai, Sao Paul, and again in Venice in 2005. He is possibly most well known for his piece titled Swimming Pool.

 

This Piece was first presented at the MoMA PS1 in New York in 2008.

MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, www.momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/207.

“Leandro Erlich.” SKNY, www.skny.com/artists/leandro-erlich.

 

Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1959. Stockholder studied painting at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Where she also received an MFA from Yale University. Jessica lives and works in Chicago, she is a sculptor and installation artist. Stockholder’s complex installations incorporate the architecture in which they have been conceived, blanketing the floor, scaling walls and ceiling, and even spilling out of windows, through doors, and into the surrounding landscape. she picks her objects based on the color and material. A lot of her work is very abstract.

image 1-Skin tone Garden Mapping

image 2-Kissing the Wall Series

image 3-Snug Parting on artnet

 

 

 

 

Yinka Shonibare MBE was born in London, England in 1962. He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. Yinka studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, London in 1984 through 1989 and earned an MA from Goldsmiths College, London University in 1991. He is known for using batik in costumed dioramas that explore race and colonialism, he also employs painting, sculpture, photography, and film in work that disrupts and challenges our notions of cultural identity. He lives in the United Kingdom right now he has a physical disability that paralyses one side of his body, he uses assistants to help him with his work under his direction. The disability has increased with aged and he is now in an electric wheelchair.

The American artist, Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. The artist is best known for his use of scientific presentations in his artwork. Mark Dion had earned his BFA in 1986 from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. Right Now Dion lives and works in New York and Pennsylvania with his wife, who is also an artist. Her name is Dana Sherwood.

His work is based on history, knowledge and the natural world. Dion has won numerous awards, Including the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award for his fine pieces.

 

Born in 1981 in Brewster, Massachsetts, Josephine Halvorson is an artist who combines acute attention to detail with an insistence on painting from life, but with a rather unique catch; she gives herself only one day to finish a piece. She often works onsite, mainly interested in sites that give off a sense of postindustrial grit, such as a missing patch of paint on a door or wall, acknowledging that ,”anything in the world could be a painting.” However, she rejects being called a painter, as she prefers to think of painting as recording time spent with an object in its environment.

As I Went Walking

Carcass

Ellen Gallagher an artist of a different sort of art. In all of the videos she is in she is very open and truthful about her back ground. She as tell why she does the art she does. Before we get into her art lets talk about her. Ellen Gallagher born 1965 in Providence, Rhode Island. She went to attended both Oberlin College and School of the museum of fine arts located in Boston.  According to Ellen Gallagher she grow up with more Theatre and literature arts which inspired her to make the art she made and is making. At oberlin college she was studying biology but then changed to art.

Which brings us to her works of art. The art is like a collage of things that are painted on or printed on. Then some are cut in a figure of something. They have a cool look to them and are different from traditional art. She also use video and projection and made stories for them she started this as a child in Rhode Island. She even said that she would invite boys in her neighbor hood over so she could show them the slides and tell them the story. Ellen Gallagher like to use different things for inspiration in the  art. For example birds she uses them for painting and paper cuts glue on to a canvas. She enjoys bird watching and wanted to recreate what she saw. 

this is just one of her bird art works. which is painted and paper cut outs glued on to a canvas. Ellen has others like this. She often thinks outside the box and gets in to the work of art it self. where as you and me may lets make this she just makes and thinks about it later. Another one of her exhibits is the water ecstatic an as you may think it is about underwater creatures which was thought of when she was doing a project for biology in college. They are unique and beautiful in real life.

    She clearly exhibits a passion for her art and art in general.In all of her interviews when she is discussing her art and the work of other artist her whole face lights up and becomes very animated which in turn gives you a good feeling about her as an artist. She is very outgoing and encourages people to read  and do art. She comes from an area where you are taught the value of being a hardworker and earning what you have.This value system make her art hands on.  Every cut of paper,every paint stroke and swirl of glue she does by hand . In the end she is a very talented artist and is determined to make art that is different and sets her aside.Ellen Gallagher is one of the most modern artist today and her use of simple materials is astounding.She finds unique ways of putting them to use .Hopefully, Her creativity will become a source of inspiration to future artist.

Lynda Benglis is a Greek-American sculptor and visual artist born in October 1941. She is known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. She attended Tulane University where she studied ceramics and painting. After graduation she taught third grade, then later moved to New York where she was influenced by  Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse, and Barnett Newman. She then went on to study art at the Brooklyn Museum Art School.

She used materials such as beeswax before moving on to large polyurethane pieces and later to gold-leaf, zinc, and aluminum in her artwork. Her piece Fallen Painting had the approach with a feminist perspective. For this work, Benglis smeared “Day-Glo” paint across the gallery floor invoking “the depravity of the ‘fallen’ woman” or, from a feminist perspective, a “prone victim of phallic male desire”. These brightly colored floor pieces were intended to disrupt the male-dominated minimalism movement with their suggestiveness and openness.

Fallen Painting

Eridanus

 

 

 

 

 

Quartered Meteor

Corner Piece

Wing

Lucas Blalock is an American artist that was born in Asheville, NC in 1978. He now lives and works in New York City. He is a photographer and uses Photoshop on his pictures. He is interested in the process of Photoshop, so rather than hiding the edits he enhances them. Blalock is drawn to “objects that have something pathetic about them”. “If I do something to a photograph, the viewer has an impulse to naturalize what happened, to correct the mistake”. There is humor and comedy in his art.

Originally, Blalock was interested in writing for film. He says he has long been interested in cinema, especially its mechanics and its relation to the Theatre of the Absurd. “Being a fine-art photographer was about as far off the radar as you could get in terms of what I wanted to do with my life,” he laughs. He has written a book, Towards a Warm Math, full of images that run the gamut from prosaic domestic compositions to almost classically Surrealist still lifes to the kind of plainly manipulated tableaux that have captivated a recent generation of young artists. He has entered several art shows and exhibitions and sells his work for thousands of dollars.

 

From A Physical Feeling, 2014

From Late Work, White Flag Projects

Hotdogs on Vacation

Boob Bag

https://art21.org/watch/new-york-close-up/lucas-blalocks-digital-toolkit/

 

 

Oliver Herring was born in 1964 in Heidelberg, Germany. He know lives and works in New York. Herring received a BFA from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, England and an MFA from Hunter College, New York.

In the 1900s, Oliver created hand-knit Mylar and tape sculptures. They are a homage to Ethyl Eichelberger, a drag performance artist who committed suicide in 1991. The sculptures evoke introspection, mortality, and memory. A marking of time through the accumulation of stitched units. The project lasted for 10 years.

A Flower for Ethyl Eichelberger

In 1998, he began to make stop motion videos and participatory performances. At first, these performances just included friends and people around the studio, but eventually it opened up to strangers from off the street. His videos are impromptu and unpredictable. In a series of large photographs, he documents faces of strangers that have been spit on with food dye for hours at a time.

The Sum and its Parts

His newer works are three-dimensional photo sculptures. For these works, he photographs a model from every possible angle then cuts and pastes the photos onto a sculpture of the model. The models being birds or people.

Leon

In 2002, he created an improvisational event called TASK. Much like his recent works, the event is about human interactions. He believes that TASK itself is a work of art. Oliver tries to keep up with the TASK parties he doesn’t attend because he puts some of the finished tasks onto his website.

Gloria

(Juvenile Bald Headed) Eagle