Simone Giordano

The oil paintings by Simone Giordano are highly inspired by the digital field and electronic devices. Simone works focused on this digital aesthetic recreating some ones from the digital interfaces such as the transparent background and the selection tool both from Photoshop, texts zoom in, pixelate images and even his painting present some great glitches and errors.

"Ideas, images that evolve and out from my laptop, grainy, fragmented, transformed in a graphic editing program and then finally transferred to canvas; belong to my memory, found them recognized in that extension of our own consciousness, but which 'collective well' that is 'the network, objects that acquire a new value in my representations, the one of medium between us and our deeper self, the root on which to build a just ethical, technological develop consciousness on which our the future. '' - Simone Giordano. See more;

Koen Delaere

This latest work by Koen Delaere is really beautiful, I'm loving the color palette used for each different gradient. Koen has made this work for featuring it on NOVA Festival which has started 2 days ago in Sao Paulo at MIS. This work consists in a bunch of printed stuff which will be the background for an "upcoming" new work, he explains a little bit more about; "I made some background silkscreenprints on double A0-sized paper at the GAD Eindhoven , pouring inks freely in the screen. With my friend Bas operating the squeegee and me folding the papers and (half-)controlling the colours." See more;

Starry Night Interactive Animation

Petros Vrellis is the author of this incredible interactive and animated representation of the well know master piece Starry Night by Van Gogh. As Petros says, it is a try visualize the flow of the famous painting "Starry Night" of Vincent Van Gogh. The user can interact with the animation. Also, the sound responds to the flow. Made using openframeworks. See the video;

PHONEARTS.NET

Guillaume Hugon

PhoneArts.net is a young international collaborative project where new media based artists experiment using mobile phone as the medium to create unique compositions. The collective is formed by the founders of, Guillaume Hugon Franconville, France, Daniel Littlewood NYC, NY, USA and Brian Metcalf, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Bonjour Jean-Jacques (Mat Servant & Pierre Rose), Location: Paris, France, Barnie Page, London, UK, Michael Manning, NY, US, Antoine Aillot, Paris, France, Marcel Kaczmarek, Warsaw, Poland and Jeremiah Johnson, NY, US. See more;

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Videorative portrait of Randall Okita

Sergio Albiac has been working the latest six months on this project called "Videorative portrait of Randall Okita", as he told me, this is one of the most complex works he has developed so far. A work that makes you think about a new way to understand what is a realistic portrait, using meanings and emotions instead of  brushes.

Sergio tells us more about this realistic, emotional and interactive painting way he has created;
"With this new work, I try to create a new type of portrait, one that goes beyond physical appearances, more "realistic" as it renders the founding blocks of the intimate world: memories, relationships and emotions. It is also a metaphor of the art of traditional painting, but expressed in contemporary media: generative video and interactive installation. It is an evolutive type of portrait that can be fed with more video memories by the person portrayed, increasing "likeness" as time goes by.  Also, it is a "data visualization" of the emotional life: the installation version of the work uses online access to Wikipedia to infer emotions tied to memories and displays new and "subconscious" interpretations of the person portrayed. It is "meaning visualization"". See more;

Yuan Xiaofang

"Yuan Xiaofang was born in Wuhan , China , 1961. Yuan graduated from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 1986, and currently teaches at the institute. Yuan cleverly transfers abstract culture into sensible and concrete images, along with combining psychological statement that is much subtle and complex. Elements in the painting come from objects in our real life, but its painting method and expression tone is light and fascinating. By tempting viewers with material satisfaction, Yuan constructs his acknowledgment on culture’s deficiencies." See more;

Melanie Authier

Melanie Authier, 1980, Montreal_ 

"Melanie Authier's paintings bring together visual contradictions into one imaginary space. By drawing upon the histories of abstraction and the strategies of representation, she presents improbable environments. A sense of disorientation comes about through the way in which colour, texture, line and shape compete for room within the canvas. Each work presents a brimming jostle of oppositions that the viewer is invited to bring into a certain order." See more;

Grant Miller

Grant Miller
"My work is, at its core, the depiction of a contemporary dialogue. The process of constructing these paintings mirrors the construction of history. Furthermore, it depicts the hectic pace in which we gather and edit information in present society. I start with architectural interiors, symbols, and marks that represent accumulated forms of information, interaction, and memories. Once these marks are laid, there is a continuous reaction to the previous information. I use a combination of structures, and an illustrative and expressive vocabulary that is inherent to painting, as elements to formally define space and express the intersections of a complicated society. Much, if not all of the early information is completely covered, and the viewer is left with a painting that has been continually built upon the previous action or mark, as well as an image that reflects the nuances and complexity of the contemporary society in which we live. The paintings are a reconstruction of a physical history which plays out the layers of the work. In society as in these paintings you can see through to some of the early influences, while some are completely invisible but necessary to the finality of each piece." See more;

Katharine Harvey

"Katharine Harvey’s paintings explore the mobile and dimensional qualities of light. Known for her paintings of water, storefront displays and reflections, Harvey’s latest works also depict electricity as a visual presence. Building images amidst thick layers of clear acrylic paint, she echoes the distortive, fluid properties of water and glass. These paintings achieve a prismatic beauty through the illusion of depth and layers of vibrant colours. Like live wires, these playful optical effects channel the visual energy of elemental forces and their abstract rhythm." - Nicholas Metiver Gallery. See more;

Plaques & Tangles by Jeff Huntington

"Porter Contemporary, NY, is pleased to announce Plaques & Tangles, the new paintings by Jeff Huntington, who explores the mysteries of perception and memory as well as the flexibility and fragility of the human mind. The title of the exhibition refers to the amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles that are believed to contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, a disease with which Huntington is quite familiar. While watching his father struggle with Alzheimer’s, the artist began to experiment with perspective. Using his father, nieces and nephews as subjects, Huntington developed a new portrait style that illustrates not only fragmented and confused thinking processes, but also his own shifting — and often challenging — feelings about his father’s illness." See more;

Nathan James

Oil on Linen 61x91cm

Amazing painting technique from Nathan James. The following pictures seem photographs mixed with a kind of painting, but is just painting, oil on linen and sometimes oil + enamel.

Born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, Nathan James currently lives and works in London, UK. Exhibiting extensively, James has participated in art shows throughout North America and Europe. His work has been selected for various international art fairs, most recently including Pulse Miami and Korea International Art Fair, 2011. See more;

Ricardo González García

Oil and enamel on canvas 65 x 50 cm

Ricardo González García_

"My art practice focuses, from some years ago to actuality, in the investigation of different plastic processes that provide intermediate vision between representation and abstraction, object and subject, and content and continent. This brings me to the realization of different series organized around a conceptual framework, that structures its presentation and that leads me to adopt different strategies for transforming these premises prior to visual expressions of two or three dimensions. Because the failure to rule out in advance any technique gives me the choice between different possible ways that I have, or I can discover, for approaching the same subject, which enriches the code and helps me open up different paths by which to advance my creation." See more;

Interactive Robotic Painting Machine by Benjamin Grosser

Benjamin Grosser has created a performing "Interactive Robotic Painting Machine" which uses artificial intelligence to paint its own body of work and to make its own decisions about what it does while being influenceable by others. Like Benjamin says, "to understand this, I suggest you consider the machine an artist in its own right. Just as a human artist is influenced by what they hear, the machine is influenced by what it hears. What it makes will be different in the absence of input, but it is not easy to trace how that input manifests as change." See more;

Jens Hesse

Amazing paintings by Jens Hesse, 1973, Heessen, Germany. Works and lives in Antwerp, Belgium. In his website you can see the paintings grouped by different kind of digital distortions such as influenced by digital distorted satellite signals, datamosh videos, interlace effects, and by anaglyph images. Jens usually paints with oil and acrylic. I really like when he uses corduroy for two of his painting series (digital distorted satellite signals and  interlace effects) to get a excellent digital looks. See more;

Michael Alan

"Dissecting, amplifying, sampling and distorting, Michael Alan explores spaces that walk along the edge of figure and the abstract. These pictures are interpretations of the human body within the world, which is simply an abstraction of our minds. The body is abstract, emotions are abstract. Alan uses his surface as an emotional reader to document these intangible realities." See more;

Divided Personality by SeRgio Albiac

Sergio Albiac's latest great project is called Divided Personality, is a ongoing painting (acrylic) series which are the result of his process of generative sketching process, see more about here.

"This portrait painting series explores simbolically the contradictions, conflicting desires, mindset revisions and the permanent crisis of a technological world. The paintings are the result of my process of generative sketching process." - Sergio Albiac. See more;

Manuael Fernández

The Spanish painter Manuael Fernández creates amazing abstract paintings using an air compressor over the diluted paint (acrylic) on the support surface. My favorite one is the image above, I like the colors and it reminds me some slitscan landscapes, so good! See more;

Milena by RAFAŁ BUJNOWSKI

Oil on canvas - Click here to enlarge it.

I really like this negative painting, looks amazing! Rafal Bujnowski painted it in 2005, Milena is the artist's daughter. This piece is from his "Negative" painting series made using the reverse color palette. The proper image should be then developed by taking a photograph and reversing it into negative. See more;

Periscope by Spencer Finch

Periscope is one of many amazing and conceptual projects created by Spencer Finch, it is a photographic device composed of mirrors and ventilation ducts that extends from inside the Rhona Hoffman Gallery to the outside and allows visitors to view the changing sky. The periscope was used to expose a cyanotype directly on the wall of the gallery, creating a hazy blue image from a two-day exposure of the Chicago sky (3/26/09-3/27/09). Materials: Ventilation duct, mirrors, cyanotype exposure. See more;

Sam Songailo 2011

Sam Songailo’s practice is based in painting and includes large scale installations and video. He has exhibited extensively in alternative gallery spaces in Adelaide and now bases his practice in Melbourne, Australia. See more;