Vizie Urban Art
Vizie is an American artist living and working in New York City by way of Houston, Texas. Though he has made his mark on the art world through graffiti, Vizie’s work extends beyond the walls into fine, print, and commercial artwork.
GIFs World Jaedoo Lee
Jaedoo Lee is an illustrator that animates and an animator that creates, draws shapes with imaginary physics and sometimes makes them move too. Lee’s work is all about displaying shapes in a space and he wants his work to be fun to look at
Delphine Diallo Photography
Delphine Diallo is a Brooklyn-based French and Senegalese visual artist and photographer. Wherever she can, Diallo combines artistry with activism, pushing the many possibilities of empowering women, youth, and cultural minorities through visual provocation.
Sought to challenge the norms of our society, Diallo immerses herself in the realm of anthropology, mythology, religion, science and martial arts to release her mind. Her work takes her to far remote areas, as she insists on spending intimate time with her subjects to better able represent their most innate energy “I treat my process as if it were an adventure liberating a new protagonist” — Diallo’s powerful portraitures unmask and stir an uninhibited insight that allows her audience to see beyond the facade.
“We are in constant search for wonder and growth. I see art asa vessel to express consciousness and an access to diffuse wisdom, enlightenment, fear, beauty, ugliness, mystery, faith, strength, fearless, universal matter”
Delphine is currently represented by MTArt Agency (@mtartagency) lead by Marine Tanguy (@marinetanguyart)
Urban Society illustrated by Ilya Milstein
Milan-born Melbourne-raised and New York based graphic artist Ilya Milstein creates award-winning illustrations of ideal neighbourhood society. They usually depicts chilling people doing their daily basis thing on a mid-hour streets of New York and suburbia. Most of Ilya’s works lands on the covers of magazines of New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine
BRRCH
BRRCH is the NY-based floral project of Brittany Asch, founded in 2013 on the principle of delivering flowers as art to heighten the appreciation of the natural world around us.
With a deep respect For natural landscapes, Brittany aims to create Floral climates from worlds that do not exist, often elevating the flower Elements she shares into the realm of fantasy and Surreality. Her work with Flowers was once described as "What love would look like if love could materialize into floral form."
Meditative Digital Art by Krista Kim
Meditative Design is a creative extension of Krista Kim’s art practice, as she creates a meditative universe of the future.
“From the experience of the coronavirus pandemic that has gripped the world over the past two months, I realized that meditation is a universal tool to help us manage future instability and stress responses from massive disruption caused by future pandemic risk, climate change and automation. It is inevitable that our future will be unstable and chaotic for many years to come.
The world is ready to seek spiritually driven changes of how our civilization and economy are structured. Meditation has become a scientifically proven practice for the well-being of the individual and therefore, the well-being of society and the world. Millions of us are meditating en mass like never before and social media is helping us build community around it.
While in quarantine, I became inspired to create my vision of a world of meditativeness; my vision of how the practice of meditation can also be integrated into our every day lives through art, architecture, design and fashion. My vision is of a future based on the individual practice of meditation, extending to every aspect of our every day lives. I am inspired by Japanese Zen art, architecture and design. It’s very existence has shaped the world culture in profound ways, and will continue to impact art and design as it lives through my creations.
I believe there is hope for the future if more people meditate. We will manage stress, but most importantly, we can tap into our maximum creative potential. More than ever, creativity and collaboration are the antidote to fear and war. Beauty, collaboration, co-creation and meditation are the attributes that we must focus on collectively and globally in order to thrive and navigate opportunity amidst the chaos of disruption.
“I hope that we all gain insight, wisdom and compassion from this pandemic. I hope you are inspired to create a beautiful world.”
Influx
A mother finds herself sinking into a domestic violent relationship, until an influx of emotions is awakened within her.
‘Influx’ is a poetic short film that sinks into the themes of domestic violence, alcoholism, and love. Inspired by Leslie Morgan Steiner's TED talk: ‘Why domestic violence victims don’t leave’. And by the countless stories of mothers trapped in abusive relationships and the power of love for their children.
This film was made to spark hope and connect with those that find themselves in unhealthy domestic relationships. Given the current situation with the virus lockdown and recent rise in domestic abuse and alcoholism, the importance of having a dialogue with audiences regarding domestic violence is vital.
Written and Directed by: Daniel Uribe
Produced by: Jonathan Melton
Production Company: Curfew
Director of Photography: Htat Lin Htut
Engulf You
Exploring the idea of internal struggle, Engulf You is a film painting the never ending ‘dance’ of emotions that make us. Much like the concept of the cosmic duality of Yin and Yang, our emotions are in a constant tango, vying for victory over one another. This film focuses particularly on the claustrophobia within us when anxieties and self doubt truly engulf us. Created at Found Form by Wisconsin based directors Steven Cleavland and Kyle Kadow.
Art of Peter Opheim
Peter Opheim’s oil paintings are windows into a world unlike any other, one populated by the unconventional and provocative juxtaposition of a childlike imagination with adult thoughts and emotions.
Renaud Futterer Showcase
Talented French graphic designer Renaud Futterer who moved from London to NYC for delivering high class typography, motions, and layouts for @buck_design has shared the latest works with us
Neighborhood
The lives of three strangers—a pigeon keeper, a webcam model, and a man haunted by ghosts—intertwine mysteriously amidst the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying Bushwick.
“A wondrous short…propulsive…expansive and ultimately quite memorable.”
“A gorgeously mastered cinematic statement.”
“A work of art. Gives warning to an oncoming storm...that yet has no answers.”
Director & Editor: Ben Garchar
Cinematographer & Producer: Jeffrey Johnson
Featuring: Lindsay Dye
Music: 88 Palms
Sound Edit, Design, Mix: Steve 'Major' Giammaria
Colorist: Chase Whiteside
Ben Garchar is a director and editor based in NYC.
As the director of numerous shorts, his work has been called “emotionally complex, deeply penetrating” and has played at festivals such as DC Shorts, Raindance, and BAMcinemaFest.
His most recent, Neighborhood, which premiered at BAMcinemaFest and took home the Fear No Filmmaker Award at Fear No Film, is “a wondrous short…propulsive…expansive and ultimately quite memorable” and “a gorgeously mastered cinematic statement”.
Future Relic 03 by Daniel Arsham
It’s been 5 years since Future Relic 03 (one of 9 shorts) directed by prophet artist Daniel Arsham premiered as part of the shorts program entitled "Gallery Opening" at the Tribeca Film Festival. It’s never been so actual than now.
I love the central library in KC because I always have loved/collected libraries: I go to one in every place I visit. They're pretty fair places. Everyone is welcomed, and we all share the same resources. They're reservoirs of culture, and the KC library is exquisite, so full of history, it's grand, it's full of different people and the quiet is so full. Finally, I love the giant slide in concourse park because it's brilliant and I take kids there all the time, and I think it's fun to try and remember how to be a kid. Oh and I love uptown arts bar because I used to sing at the open mics there and that was my introduction to a KC community, - Laura Kennedy
MOVING || GHOSTS
Jacob Buchanan is a photographer and multi-media artist operating under the pseudonym Melting Giraffe. He often deals in themes of dissociation, identity, and the suggestion of narrative - same as you may find within his new project MOVING || GHOSTS.
Not in kc: The Smokey mountains, Sumter national forest, the burren ireland. In kc st, James on troost, the slabs in Gillham park, Mattie rhodes, the central library, The giant slide in concourse park? Well I grew up in Kentucky running around in the woods, so the Smokeys and Sumter remind me of the green hills and mountains of home. There's something very comforting about being surrounded by wildness and green. You can't escape the growing things, even though there are these deep shadows. For me the South is a place of enormous tragedy but it's inseparable from my roots. For kc, I love the slabs because I lived kind of close to gillham park and we used to walk down there and have drinks and watch the sunset and marvel at the graffiti. It's a beautiful example of a neighborhood/community adapting a space.
“/ / MOVING | | GHOSTS / / is an ongoing project that I started at the beginning of 2019 where I am collaborating with people to create portraits of them in locations important to them while wearing their favorite outfit.
I ask people to wear their favorite outfit is because clothes show where that person is at that period of their life, how they feel & have been feeling. The clothes express who they want to be and in turn, give them confidence. I am interested in sharing who people are and the connection that comes with that. The catch is that they have to hide their face. I ask that people cover their face because it kills the model / identity but allows for other parts of who they are to come out in the image.
Important locations come from the idea of boudoir. Boudoir comes from the french word bouder meaning: to sulk. Historically, sulking was seen as something one would do privately, and the term bouder came to encapsulate a room where one would go to withdraw and be quietly alone. A bouder was a place of intimacy and privacy, where one could express their true selves without fear of judgment or punishment.”
“I usually do Barnes and noble or level one at the river market It’s where I go to find solice. Manga and stuff like dnd is a healthier escape from my anxiety than drugs or alchohol Yeah through drugs and alcohol but that turned dark fast so now I run dnd games and make my own stories and when I’m done with school I wanna travel. It’s more life is mundane and I want to adventure. That’s actually why I model I wanna travel to all the fashion capitals and get paid for it”, - Chance
“I’ve tried to think about it a lot! But I love nature, I have a bunch of plants. I think the path that I’ve been going in, I end up growing in different aspects. I can only imagine that being reciprocated visually through nature. I believe life is a simulation”, - Victoria
St. James is incredibly diverse, open-minded and social justice oriented. It is a church focused primarily on people, which gives me a great deal of hope. It's also just an incredibly happy place. Mattie Rhodes is where I work, and I think it's the happiest place on earth. It's three floors of recycled/donated art supplies and decades of children's artwork.
Danielle Orchard
Danielle Orchard is a New York-based painter zooming on the female universe. Her abstract art, at times, evokes associations with cubism – the subject makes the difference
Mathographics by GMUNK
The essence of being a creative professional is the ‘Art of Freestyle.’ This for Munky (GMUNK or Bradley G Munkowitz) means delving deep into the PsyMunk and finding those symmetries of craft and fruition that make the passion stream with inspired output. The Mathographics series is a culmination of that research, the purity and fabric of graphic design infused with optical distortions and anomalies to create statements of immersive intent and perpetual translation. The series first takes form as a series of kaleidoscopic movements, sequenced together into a short film scored and edited by frequent collaborator CallMeClark.
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Continuum by Krista Kim
Mediative light installation piece from #techism creator Krista Kim title “Continuum”
Mirror or the mind.
“When I lived in Tokyo, I was a newcomer to the city and I would discover the it on foot, navigating the Japanese signage, architecture and overall system of life. On a spring day, I wandered down side streets in my neighborhood, and I suddenly chanced upon a serene Zen garden. This Zen garden was an energetic vacuum because the world seemed to stop when I stepped inside it’s parameters. I stood still, fascinated by the beauty of negative space, peace and silence. I felt serenity. It was in that moment when I understood the principle of Zen and the meaning of art.
For centuries, Zen masters created these gardens with the intention of creating empty space in the mind of the viewer.
Art is a mirror of the mind.
I realized that our digital environment, though it is virtual, is a parallel reality of human existence—this environment is new, chaotic and distracting. The key to connecting to our humanity is to find and protect our inner sanctum of silence and peace. Younger generations are at high risk of losing this inner sanctum from digital technology.
I created a digital zen garden. One that communicates pure consciousness in the digital medium through the powerful harmony of color, light and sound.”
Music by Ligovskoï
Art of Brian Alfred
American artist Brian Alfred is best known for his collages, paintings, and digital animations. He works fluidly between classic and contemporary media like drawing and digital art, and he depicts subject matters that range from architecture and technology to modern idealism and romantic heroism. Best known for his works that examine how people's perception of their surrounding world and culture is mediated by technology, Alfred's practice is often accounted for as socio-critical and a mirror of our contemporary times.
He creates flattened and usually depopulated worlds of color reproduced in two dimensional bold patterns, often derived from found images. Alfred explores the effect public imagery has on individual perceptions of reality by using newspaper photographs, television advertising, and the internet as source. Inscrutable scenes in his paintings and animations remind the viewer of how public media tend to show a glimpse of reality: relevant information is cropped out of the image and the overall picture is flattened into a coherent colourful narrative of a simple ideology.
360° in-store experience by Ross McCampbell
Talented illsutrator Ross McCampbell teamed up with legendary BUCK to work on 360° in-store experience for a secretive skin-care brand in San Francisco
The Canopy at 900 North Michigan by Leviathan
Specialized creative agency Leviathan has closely collaborated with the 900 North Michigan Shops to engage visitors with content displayed on a massive 190-foot LED digital art installation on its atrium ceiling. The Canopy, as it's known, is the digital centerpiece of a larger reinvention of this iconic Chicago retail destination. Visible from the street and all seven floors, the installation is a key element transforming the 30-year-old complex into a 21st-century attraction drawing retailers and customers alike.
Myshli Reel 2020
Mighty talented motion designer Danil Krivoruchko shares his latest reel featuring his work for projects by Aggressive / BUCK / CHRLX / Loop / Los York / Method / Psyop
