Graffiti doesn’t have to be destructive or polluting, I’m seeing a new trend in eco-graffiti or “guerilla gardening” that’s gaining traction. Here’re a few examples: Edina Tokodi (aka Mosstika) interview on Wooster Collective Moss graffiti instructables by users splnlss and ladybird Manual for City Farming Plant Modules by N55 If you’ve got a favorite example […]
Photograph by Muriel Thies If you love the look of movies such as The Nightmare Before Christmas and The City of Lost Children, there’s a sculptor out there after your own heart. In fact, none of Stéphane Halleux’s darkly whimsical renderings — robotic wheelchairs, squat submarines, armored cars, men with mechanical bat wings, animal soldiers […]
A Washington native, Claude Zervas brings his background as a software engineer to a fine art practice using technology and related apparatuses rather than paint and canvas as a medium. Zervas’ predominant subject matter for the past few years has been the Northwest’s verdant and extreme landscape: dense evergreen forests, glacier-melt rivers, and strange roadside […]
Photograph by Rob Carter of Mixed Greens Gallery In Lee Stoetzel’s world, Harley-Davidsons, Volkswagen buses, Macintosh computers, and McDonald’s Big Macs all grow on trees. Or at least the materials to make them do. The Pennsylvania artist recreates iconic products entirely out of wood, with a little steel and Bondo for support. “I stick with […]
Photograph by Tom Kennedy Riding a red double-decker bus in London is all about the view. The yellow Topsy-Turvy School Bus, currently touring the United States, is all about point of view. Usually, when Tom Kennedy builds and drives art cars, he’s taking his own artistic vision for a spin. This time, the driving forces […]
Photograph by Jonathan Jamieson Jonathan Jamieson of Dumfries, Scotland, did more than whittle away his vacation in the summer of 2006. While on a break from school, he turned common bamboo barbecue skewers into a delicate sculpture that gracefully delivers a rolling metal ball bearing down a series of chutes and turns. Jamieson built the […]
Photograph by Kim Dow Scott Wade of San Marcos, Texas, thought he could do better than write “Wash Me” on the backside of a dusty car. He started drawing caricatures. His father was a cartoonist of sorts and had taught him to draw funny faces. It was Wade’s idea to make a dirty car window […]
