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Showing posts with label Creative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creative. Show all posts
Spiky Lamp Posts
One thing I learned about New York City is that anything can be fun and turn into art as well. Looking at the lamp posts from a distance I was intrigued on finding out what was them decorated with. It was eye catching, super cool and looked awesome.
Once I got closer I realized it was made using the simplest thing on hand and I wondered how come no one ever thought about it before.
I stood there and had to take a few pictures so I can share a fun, cool and creative way of making the lamp posts appealing without having to re-design or try to go fancier to make them look better.
The Pictures were taken at Astor Place.
Once I got closer I realized it was made using the simplest thing on hand and I wondered how come no one ever thought about it before.
I stood there and had to take a few pictures so I can share a fun, cool and creative way of making the lamp posts appealing without having to re-design or try to go fancier to make them look better.
The Pictures were taken at Astor Place.
St. Marks - New York City
St. Marks is one of the best hangout areas in Downtown Manhattan. Here you can find plenty of everything for everyone, awesome bars, food places and clothing stores. When you visit the strip you will notice most people have something in common, appreciation for Body Art.
St. Marks have an eclectic selection of restaurant and food spots where you can pick a quick bite or sit at a table to have dinner alone or with friends. There is plenty of Vegetarian / Vegan Restaurants and quick bites as well.
One thing you will notice for sure is the endless amount of Tattoo / Piercing Parlors from start to end. This area has an interesting appeal all year round and people who live or work in the area are welcoming and pleasant.
It is a very relaxed and casual environment, totally inhibited where you can simply be yourself and don't have to worry about non-sense or fake impersonations of what the perfect everything should be, St. Marks is already perfect by being free spirited and open to reality.
Art can be anywhere, everything is surrounded by creativity and artistic vision, from a van full of graffiti to public art exhibits.
St. Marks have an eclectic selection of restaurant and food spots where you can pick a quick bite or sit at a table to have dinner alone or with friends. There is plenty of Vegetarian / Vegan Restaurants and quick bites as well.
One thing you will notice for sure is the endless amount of Tattoo / Piercing Parlors from start to end. This area has an interesting appeal all year round and people who live or work in the area are welcoming and pleasant.
It is a very relaxed and casual environment, totally inhibited where you can simply be yourself and don't have to worry about non-sense or fake impersonations of what the perfect everything should be, St. Marks is already perfect by being free spirited and open to reality.
Art can be anywhere, everything is surrounded by creativity and artistic vision, from a van full of graffiti to public art exhibits.
Tin: Internal Clock soon at Last Rites Gallery - New York City
Tin: Internal Clock
October 1st – October 23rd
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 1st, 7-11pm
Last Rites Gallery presents Internal Clock, new works by Tin, in what will be the artist’s second solo show at the gallery.
Working with a neutral color palette of oil pastels, artist Tin creates dream worlds where beautiful women intermingle with rigid machinery. His exaggerated female forms maintain a sensual pin-up quality, while casting an undeniable air of mystery. Combining innocent eyes and soft flesh with manufactured industrial parts, the viewer is lured into a dark fairytale where natural and mechanical elements seamlessly co-exist.
Influenced as a child by comic books and cartoons, Tin states that his real passion creating art did not come until later in life, spurned by a brush with his own mortality: “I sketched from time to time and did ok in high school art class. Then I became a fisherman, like the kind out of the movie Perfect Storm. I almost died three times and should have lost my drawing hand at least a dozen times. After my last close call with death I decided to become an artist.” Tin went on to do commercial and pin-up art for 7 years, but his art took a turn as he felt unchallenged with what he was creating. He says “The art I was doing had no heart. So one day I was finishing a pin-up girl and I remember saying out loud to myself ‘If I only had a heart’- which reminded me of the Tin Man from The Wizard Of Oz. At that moment I decided to do more interesting works and call myself Tin.”
Last Rites Gallery
511 W 33rd Street, NYC
212.529.0666
info@lastritesgallery.com
Last Rites Gallery Announcement
Laurie Lipton:
Carnival Of Death
New York, New York
October 1st – October 23rd
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 1st, 7-11pm
Last Rites Gallery presents The Carnival Of Death, new works by Laurie Lipton, in what will be her first solo show at the gallery.
A master of graphite, Laurie Lipton’s detailed drawings explore the passages of life and the portal into death. With technical prowess, she approaches her subject matter with a unique blend of both elegance and dark humor. Influenced by Día de los Muertos iconography, this exhibit runs just prior to The Day Of The Dead, commemorating the holiday by which it was inspired.
“I became fascinated by the contrast between the Day Of The Dead festival in Mexico and my experience of my mother's death. My parents were atheists. We had no ceremony, no goodbyes, no "closure". My father instructed the hospital to cremate my mother and dispose of her ashes. She was gone, disappeared, zapped out of existence. I was left with Nothing... literally and metaphysically. Friends & family treated my mother's death like an embarrassment. They awkwardly murmured Hallmark platitudes before slinking uneasily away. Death is as forbidden a topic in modern society as sex was in Victorian England.
When I visited Mexico in order to see The Day Of The Dead festival some years later, I couldn't help feeling envious of their approach to mortality. Families gathered on graves and picnicked, whole villages turned up with food for households in mourning. Death was treated as normal, even silly. Candied skulls grinned in their hundreds and skeletons danced in a fair-ground atmosphere. I decided to rebel against my heritage and create drawings inspired by the mood and atmosphere of the Mexicans. I decided to get in-touch with my bare bones. My culture runs from death, screaming. We worship youth, beauty and the illusion that we have all the time in the world. We frantically face-lift and botox, and throw pills, creams and money at death. We fool ourselves into thinking that death only happens to other people & only losers die. Skulls always look like they're laughing. Maybe the joke is on us?”
-Laurie Liption
About The Artist:
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany,France and London and has recently moved back to the States after 35 years abroad. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.
Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 17th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. "It's an insane way to draw", she says, "but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort".
So creative - Less Boring
Lots of people enjoy bowling but those who aren't into it might raise an eyebrow after you see the latest trend with the balls.
For some, the balls might look creepy but for those who are well aware they're art is eye candy. How come noone thought of this before?
Lets be honest, even someone who isn't into bowling want to have one of this conversation starter.
For some, the balls might look creepy but for those who are well aware they're art is eye candy. How come noone thought of this before?
Lets be honest, even someone who isn't into bowling want to have one of this conversation starter.
Go on a Trip Beyond Your Dreams.
Imagination and creativity has no limits. Having a way to picture something in your head and accomplish it in real life is something not everyone is capable of doing.
People have dreams and sometimes identify with an artist who makes those dreams come to reality by creating a masterpiece that stands out from things that some people could simply find plain boring.
Beauty can be visualized in many ways and can get deep into someone's head and stay. By catching a good interpretation of what is said without saying a word is understanding art and its essence to completion.
Living for creativity can be a deep feeling that can make anyone believe in a world that not everyone can see or be part of. Only those who have no limits can understand, and fully comprehend in order be on the same page (level). Most things have to evolve to avoid disappearing and becoming extinct.
Art is always in style never fades but it also keeps evolving and new ideas and innovative concepts keep appearing to top the previous trend, style or simply make it better.
People have dreams and sometimes identify with an artist who makes those dreams come to reality by creating a masterpiece that stands out from things that some people could simply find plain boring.
Beauty can be visualized in many ways and can get deep into someone's head and stay. By catching a good interpretation of what is said without saying a word is understanding art and its essence to completion.
Living for creativity can be a deep feeling that can make anyone believe in a world that not everyone can see or be part of. Only those who have no limits can understand, and fully comprehend in order be on the same page (level). Most things have to evolve to avoid disappearing and becoming extinct.
Art is always in style never fades but it also keeps evolving and new ideas and innovative concepts keep appearing to top the previous trend, style or simply make it better.
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