Fogged Clarity » Visual Arts

Idioms

Ben — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:07:00 +0000

Damara Kaminecki Often while riding my bike through the alleys and streets of Chicago, my mind gathers the imagery and often peeks through the windows of neighbors and strangers. I began collecting these images in drawings and later making them into relief prints, carving linoleum to create my pieces with a sharp, clean illustrative quality. [...]

Between Meaning and Material

Ben — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:05:09 +0000

Christopher Reiger My work is principally concerned with contemporary man’s mutable conception of Nature. Growing up on the rural Delmarva Peninsula, I became acquainted with the local flora and fauna at a young age. Whether working at field chores, hunting, fishing or simply playing, many of my experiences in the “natural” world were similar to [...]

Astonishing Collapse

Ryan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:04:32 +0000

Peter Cicariello All this living embodiment this rationality This finite maximal production, these borders Between the final astonishing collapse accompanied By a resounding redundancy a pervasive pall of fear Over the invoked legacy ultimately denying The capacity of possibility for future Peter Ciccariello is an interdisciplinary, cross-genre artist, [...]

Urban Generations

Ben — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:09:39 +0000

Hilary Williams My art uses collages of photography, drawing, painting and patterning to create layers of images and meaning. The works deal with a variety of emotions about the coexistence of our urban landscape, nature and humanity. I am continually inspired by my surroundings, todays urban and natural environments, and have drawn some inspirations as [...]

Past and Future Recognition

Ben — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:09:17 +0000

Biff Moshe The main themes in my work concern relationships; those between individuals and those between ourselves and nature. The isolation of the individual and the collective, universally shared human experience are central tenets in my work. In these pieces I use color, light and shadow in real and surreal ways, allowing these images to [...]

Consignment

Ben — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:03:47 +0000

Glenn Ibbitson The working title for this ongoing series of paintings was “Crate”. The subject of a figure in a box originated from a search for an image to represent the escapologist which could take its place beside various circus performers in a suite called “Smoke & Mirrors” . However, the works may now be [...]

Being Blank, The Visual Poems

Ryan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:58:35 +0000

John M. Bennett Ars Poetica: “Be Blank” John M. Bennett is curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries, and has published over 300 books of poetry and other materials. Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & Poets Press), Mailer Leaves Ham [...]

Homecoming

Ben — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:43:34 +0000

Socrates Galiatsatos Homecoming is a short animated film exploring the work of Franz Kafka through his homonymous story. The story follows the homecoming of a wayward son back to his fathers’ farm where he spent the first years of his life. The piece focuses on his inability to connect to the environment, and on his [...]

The Windows

Ben — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:42:24 +0000

Socrates Galiatsatos The Windows is my attempt to visualize C.P.Cavafy’s poem of the same name. The animation was created in 2003, and was a personal project reflecting certain aspects of my own psychology at the time. A translation of the poem can be found below: In these darkened rooms, where I spend oppressive days, I [...]

Studies in Countenance

Ryan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:00:14 +0000

Takashi Saito A collection of Takashi Saito’s uniquely elegant portraiture. Takashi Saito is a painter living and working in Tokyo. He had his first solo exhibition in 2005 and has since participated in several group exhibitions. See more work by Takashi-san at saitotakashi.com

Females and Ovipositions

Ryan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:00:07 +0000

Grycja Erde In this series of oil paintings I examine stereotypes of femininity in contemporary Ukraine. Well known images of Eve, The Virgin Mary, Helen of Troy, and of Kateryna, the heroine of the emblematic Taras Shevchenko’s poem, along with the glamorous “cover stars” serve as role models for the socialization of Ukrainian girls. Women [...]

Naked Love

Ben — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:23:26 +0000

Mollie Bryan This series of nudes is something very close to my heart. The subjects were friends of mine; the lady, a childhood friend and the man her husband. The idea behind the shoot was to capture their natural and beautiful love with no distractions. Gone are the clothes, the jewelry, the makeup. The day [...]

Work in Ink

Ben — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:22:46 +0000

Jamieson Michael Flynn Primarily, my work is accomplished with ink. I use all sorts of applicators, from pens and metal nibs, to quills and brushes. The inherent dynamic of the line is at the heart of my aesthetic. I attempt to achieve infinite simultaneous realities within each piece. Consequently, each image looks very different over [...]

Pills

Ryan — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:22:31 +0000

Patrice Tullai The smallest thing can set me off, like the shape of a line, or the contrast of a color. In doing the pill paintings, I was thinking of our cultural addition to quick fixes, and how sad and funny it is. Pills are fun objects to look at and play with, they really remind me [...]

PALINDROME

Ben — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:00:37 +0000

Ryan Daly “Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.” ~Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams Time is complex, mysterious and convoluted. Viewing common scenes through a simple distorted frame of time causes patterns and dynamics to emerge that would otherwise go unnoticed. In Palindrome, I use time-lapse photography and [...]

Angles & Insight

Ryan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:29:59 +0000

by Kyle Jones

Words From a Room: an operatic poem in 7 acts

Ryan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:01:14 +0000

Peter Ciccariello Words from a room is a serial operatic investigation into the process of shifting contextual space, the ability of referents and real world textures to maintain meaning and poetic discourse through a series of deliberate truncations, amputations and deconstructive sheerings, and a visual record of how meaning and content can transfer and interact [...]