screen shot

Monochrome woodcut prints taken from video clips and computer screens demonstrate a fascination with speed and the passage of time. I've seen her work before & remember using one for a cover of a mix cd...Love the juxaposition of old and new technology, video, woodblock, printing methods. as if they belong to a futuristic world where old technologies have taken over the new. gorgeous when seen in full size, hard to appreciate when they are small. Alan Cristea Gallery London 2009

swissmiss

Reconstruction exhibit by Ruth van Beek at Foam. Van Beek collects random snapshots, passport photos, slides etc, folds them & cuts them to give the material new meaning. Van Beek treats the photos as objects. She cuts open the once treasured pictures and rearranges them to find what she thinks is the story behind the photo. The resulting image is a credible picture of something that never existed. Love the Dutch artists....look up Erwin Warum for more quirky Dutch art. 

ruth van beek

A picture is worth a thousand words...strange yet simply extraordinary photo collages by Dutch artist. 

big city bright lights

London Art Fair 2009

Business Design Center, Islington

London N1

In Tom Leighton's images, familiar streets & squares are deconstructed and recreated into an imaginary utopian city. Strangely familiar yet physically impossible, his kaleidoscope images capture both the beauty and hedonism of modern consumer culture. Images of Tokyo, London & New York.

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Photo50

Business Design Center

London N1

Organized and edited by MFA Curating Programme at Goldsmiths, the theme of the exhibition is "coincidence". Photos drawn from a range of UK and international galleries.  Printed on jigsaw puzzles.

marxism at its best

Grapus was a collective of graphic artists working together between 1970 and 1991, founded by Pierre Bernard (studied under Henryk Tomasewski). All members of the Communist party, the group maintained political, social and cultural engagement. They rejected commercial/government clients and only worked with theatre groups, progressive town councils, art institutions and the communist party itself.

Grapus remained devoted to the immediacy of posters and leaflets and the use of handwritten text.  Using very low tech methods of collage and grainy photography for a raw and unpolished look. One of the reasons I love what I love today.

uniqlo: secrets to success

1) Uniqlo employees don't have desks.

2) Uniqlo meeting rooms don't have chairs.

3) The lights go out at 7pm. in all Uniqlo offices.

www.uniqlo.com/jp/