Sometimes Lou Jones seems surprised about his life and career. "Going into photography may have been the stupidest decision I ever made, but here I am, 40 years later, and still at it," he told PPD in a 2016 interview. Over those years the Boston-based photographer has completed a number of personal projects alongside his commercial and editorial work. Most recently he's been a … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: When did you realize that you had the ‘artist gene,’ and what caused you to choose illustration? Ignacio Serrano: I have been inclined to draw since I was a kid. Because of my family, I grew up surrounded by comics, music, and movies, which influenced and educated my taste from a very early stage. I always wanted to replicate my favorite stories in … Read the full Story >>
New York City-based photographer Mauricio Rodriguez's "One Community" series explores a complex question: "In a world in which we must contend with labels, misconceptions, and discrimination, what are the cultural markers that most strongly define our sense of community?" asks Rodriguez. His answer comes in the form a dazzling multiple exposures that recontextualize stereotypes. The work was named a winner of the Latin American … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pencil or the brush? Vlad Alvarezz: The pencil. My work is finished digitally, but everything starts with a tight sketch, and the pencil has always been my tool of choice for preliminary ideas and sketches. A lot of times I like to do finished drawings from my sketches to keep a physical version of the art. PR: Please … Read the full Story >>
Andy's very much dedicated, in a very wholesome way, to his own fame. He loves it, he believes in it, he wants it, and it seemed as though he knew it had to come.Ivan Karp, art dealer/director of OK Harris Gallery Andy doesn't really talk about anything too much. He absorbs information better than he dispenses it.Paul Morrissey, filmmaker, Warhol collaborator on … Read the full Story >>
Donald Judd (1928-1944), an artist who rejected painting for the exploration of space, scale, industrial materials, and primary colors, changed the perception of sculpture through his unadorned, rectilinear works. He rejected the notion that his work was “sculpture,” which he said implied that carving was involved. He also rejected the label “minimalist,” stating that he was an “empiricist.” Once he found his mature style—expressed … Read the full Story >>
Friday, December 04 Topographie de l’art presents new work by Bruno Bressolin, Paleosprays, in a group show titled Aérosolthérapie. Inspired by cave paintings at Lascaux, Bruno created these works in spray paint on oversize Kraft paper during a long walking tour of Haute Savoie, Charente and Bretagne, France, this summer. Topographie de l’art, 15, ru de Thorigny, Paris Info Wednesday, December 02, 6:00 … Read the full Story >>
“if you can’t make it big, make it red.” A favorite, often misquoted art school saw was best exemplified—at least for this writeropposiin the form of the big, red and shiny 3D piece of typography that once marked the entrance to 9 West 57th Street, NYC—a prime location opposite a luxury retail strip, built in 1974 by developer Sheldon Solow. A regular commuter to … Read the full Story >>
The MTA’s long running Arts & Design program has a new face for the digital age. Instead of the stained glass and mosaic installations that had become synonymous with NYC's best public art program, digital art is the new normal, continuing with The Blowing Bowler, by Chris Sickels/Red Nose Studio. “Fulton Center represents the future of the MTA, so we looked to technology that also … Read the full Story >>
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.—Charles Bukowski In her new series of paintings currently on view at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Raven Schlossberg turns the gender tables in a dystopian world fabricated from, and filtered through, her childhood memories. In psychedelic tableaux, seemingly sourced from pulp fiction and soft-porn … Read the full Story >>
Siberian-born Nikolay Bakharev’s photographs of working class Russians at the beach, which were first seen in the U.S. in the 2012 exhibition Ostoglia, at the New Museum, was shortlisted for the 2015 Deutsche Brse prize. His work is currently on view at The Photographers Gallery, London, with another show opening next week at Julie Saul Gallery, New York. Bakharev began photographing during the Soviet era when it … Read the full Story >>
Working with books—creating, producing, selling, husbanding, archiving—is a dream come true. I can attest to that: my own habit began in childhood when I ran away from home for the first time at age 4.5 and headed straight for the library. I read everything I could get my hands on, from books and magazines to the Sears catalog that resided in the bathroom. I … Read the full Story >>
The 2018 DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists open a window onto their creative processes—and their summer travel experience—begins with Paul Hoppe, who spent July in Europe. This summer I was able to do a month-long trip to Europe, to visit family and friends, and also to have time for further exploring. During this time I kept a simple sketchbook diary … Read the full Story >>
Ricard Learoyd’s large-scale photographs—mainly portraits, nudes and still lifes—encourage a different way of looking. Made using the most basic of methods available, the camera obscura, which by nature produces a unique image, these are studies of individuals or objects captured with such fidelity that surfaces become tactile in a way that is not common to photography. Photo above: Sam Deitch/BFA.com, courtesy Pace Gallery. In the case of … Read the full Story >>
In 2014, Adrain Chesser told loved ones he had AIDS. And then he photographed their responses. The result was his series "I have Something to Tell You," which was spotlighted across the web, including here at Pro Photo Daily. "Chesser had long used photography as a method of interpreting and understanding his own life - a 'spiritual practice' - in his early life, so … Read the full Story >>
“Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” With that in mind, the theme of ICON8, The Illustration Conference, is Work+Play.In a further riff on that notion, the organizers just announced Damial Kulash as one of the keynote speakers for the conference being held this summer. Best known as the singer for the band OK Go, tagged “the first post-internet band,” Kulash is … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday night, Chinese authorities released dissident artist Ai Weiwei on bail, and on condition that he not speak publicly about his 81-day detention at an undisclosed location. The state news agency, Xinhua, said police had released him "because of his good attitude in confessing his crimes" and a chronic illness. In an interview before he was incarcerated, Mr. Ai said that his father, … Read the full Story >>
You are what you eat, how you coif, what you wear might be subtext for Lorenzo Vitturi’s Dalston Anatomy. One of the most talked about self-published books of 2013 (SPBH), it made most of the year-end top tens and was short-listed for the 2013 Paris Photo/Aperture Book Prize. This is a photo book as object, from its content—evocations of Vitturi’s gritty east London … Read the full Story >>
In June this year, DART contributing editor, Margaret Morton, reported on the takeover by pro-Russian separatists, of the Izolyatsia Foundation Art Center, in Donetsk, Ukraine. A month later, she reported that the separatists, who had turned the art center into a military training base, had also interfered with the international investigation of the Malaysian Airways Flight 17 crash site. Today she forwarded an article from … Read the full Story >>
At the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, last September, World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch announced that they have set up a joint initiative to honor the late Tim Hetherington. The deadline for applications is October 15. The first recipient of the Tim Hetherington grant will be announced on 7 November. Left: Battle Company / Afghanistan Fire during an attack … Read the full Story >>
