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Luke Rudolf

This is Luke Rudolf a painter I was introduced today by my good friend James Parkinson.

This is a small piece he has written about his work:
'My paintings hijack the visual language of modernist abstraction and the figurative tradition of portraiture by using the signifiers of abstraction itself to determine the features that form the resulting pseudo portraits. By creating a psychological domain that requires a cognitive, physiognomic and often darkly humorous unraveling on the part of the viewer, I propose a disruption through the destabilising of values and rationales that are brought to the work.'

Alex Virji

These great paintings reminded me of Yuko Nasu who I blogged about a while back so I thought I would put them here too. You can see more of her work here www.re-title.com and here www.beerslambert.com
Beers Lambert who represent Greg Eason and Alex Virji have a show coming up in Nottinghams Surface Gallery and you can see who is going to be in and when its on HERE.

Greg Eason

Read about him here!

Check his blog HERE

Re-Launch!

Vanilla Galleries has just re-vamped their website and blog.
Check it out it looks great.
www.vanillagalleries.com

Another Steal

I am afraid like a broken record I have again returned to the blog butdoesitfloat.com.
The only reason being these great drawings of minerals and crystals by Marissa Textor.







These also reminded me of the paintings done by Carly Waito shown on www.booooooom.com

Maybe theres a new fad for minerals and stuff coming like there was with bears and deer.

Fiona Banner

I have only ever known Fiona Banner from her Hollywood film descriptions made up into a book called The Nam. However after reading a great new website called butdoesitfloat.com I discovered her new work which has just been installed in Tate Britain just this week. Anyone that knows me knows I like planes, tanks, boats etc. Anything that symbolizes great mechanical design so these obviously attracted me. She has installed two real fighter planes into Tate Britain. One is a Harrier hanging from the ceiling, stripped of all its paint and markings and replaced with an effect that makes it look like it is made of feathers. The Jaguar, used in the first Gulf War lies belly up again stripped of all its markings, instead being highly polished reflecting its surroundings.

You can learn more by watching a video about the work here:
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/duveenscommissionseries/fionabanner2010/default.shtm

And also watch a short interview about her Christmas Tree installation: