In Todd Schorr’s epic battle work, Clash of Titans Clash of Holidays, the two most infamous pagan symbols from Christianity face off in what could only be an old rivalry between icons who share a cultural and calender space that’s just a little too close for comfort. Note that baby Jesus seems to have chosen with his stomach.
Category: Art
Photoshop of horrors
In recent years, a number of fine arts photographers have begun to work more in front of a computer than behind a lens. Unfortunately, the vast majority of their creations are unexceptional pieces that are scarcely more impressive than what you can find at Photoshopping contest websites, except that, perhaps in attempt to distinguish their serious art from the dabbling hordes, their images tend to be utterly lacking in humor or nuance. Dominic Rouse’s black-and-white photo collages, often depicting ancient beauty in decay along with a cluttered assortment of generic symbols, are no exceptions.
The attic’s filling up, I crack the basement door
Travis Louie creates portraits of monsters, done like olde-tyme studio portraits in sepia tone, and most come with their own invented backstory. Shown above: Stack of Demons a k a Mike, Sam & Alex, presented as is.
Proxy
By Marc Burkhardt.
A tale of tails
Masterful illustrator Charles Burns penned this image for his graphic novel Black Hole. Don’t miss the lizard.
Ghosts in the managerie
In Heather Nevay’s paintings pale, slender figures with animal parts and creepy, upsent or dispondent faces share space with plants, furniture and symbolic elements like cages and tripods.
Shown above is a recent work, “Madame Lyon”.
Whole lotta somethin’ comin’ after me
As regular readers of this blog may have noticed, I’m a sucker for art which looks like a twisted version of something Dr. Seuss might cook up. The best of these works tread the line between extreme but not so far out that you couldn’t imagine Theodor himself inking it after accidentally ingesting a couple hits of acid and wandering down the dark, underexplored back alleys of his mind, those he can never visit sober because they aren’t fully appropriate for little kids. Not way out beyond the pale, but just a couple steps over the line. Shown above is “Outlandish” by Dave Burke.
Unlike the Ryden I wrote about, this one didn’t slip away, and is hanging on my walls right now.
Black and white and red all over
Maniacal looking bunny toy by the multi-talented Luke Chueh.
Filling Ingot Molds
The late Boris Artybasheff created a series of illustrations called Machinalia for his book “As I See” in which heavy industrial equipment came to life. The resulting series is a set of wonderfully detailed, high-contrast black-and-white anthropomorphisms.
Credit where credit due
Famous quote by Pablo Picasso Banksy.