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Monday Artist Feature: Marina Bychkova

Marina Bychkova plays with dolls. I’m not referring to Barbies or Bratz here. It’s her medium. In her bio she said, “Making dolls has been the most constant aspect of my life since I was six years old. I believe that I was born to do this,” and I believe her.

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Monday Artist Feature: Josh Keyes

Josh Keyes uses painting to increase ‘environmental awareness and humanity’s influence on the planet’. He certainly does a very good job at it. According to his biography:

Josh Keyes is a Northern California painter and sculptor whose work has been shown nationwide. Keyes was born on August 17, 1969 in Tacoma, Washington. Josh earned a bachelor’s degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a master’s degree in painting and printmaking from Yale University. His work has been published in numerous publications, and exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and New York.

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Kogoro Kurata: Japanese Ironsmith with a Morbid Twist

Kogoro Kurata isn’t your average ironsmith. He doesn’t hammer out swords or forge bridges; rather he produces massive, awe-inspiring structures of myriad purposes and forms. Kurata creates 4-metre-tall robots and gothic restaurant interiors; he produces sombre stage sets, stop-trick animation and quirky, insect-like musical instruments. And there are also his weird, machine-like creatures which began as typewriters, Fiat cars or chandeliers! He also helps out in the local community with projects such as statues and monuments. PingMag went to Kurata’s factory in Soga, Chiba, on the edge of Tokyo to see how he does it and to hear about his obsession with iron.

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Monday Artist Feature: David Byrne

I’m busy today so posts will resume tomorrow. Thanks to Darren there is a Monday artist feature though.

Meet David Byrne. He does everything and I mean everything. From fine art to music to film you can wet your creative whistle no matter what your flavor is.

Tree Drawing (site-specific installation), “What is It?,” Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, July 19 – September 26, 2003

Pitchfork TV has a video interview regarding his latest installation piece ‘Playing the Building’. GO! Watch! I’d love to see this before its gone.

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Lego Mortar

This has to be one of the more interesting ways I’ve seen Legos used in a serious yet humorous effect.

This work was done in Bocchignano, Italy, a village close to Rome, as part of the group project “20 Eventi”. The group of artists developed projects for 4 villages of the Sabina region and decided to create a compilation of drawings, for collectors to purchase, and to support this project.

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