Plastic Fantastic: the Photos of Brian Walker
Greasy Spoon by Brian Walker
Brian Walker is a photographer and a digital artist. I think these words on Walker’s own site describes his work perfectly:
Welcome to the cheese factory where dreams are made and broken. ”Viewing this work is the equivalent of a photographic excursion into the mind of a serial filler of funtime plastic-fantastic realities. Brian Walker is a world renowned digital artist, with a playfully kitsch postmodern view on the world at large. View them with a grain of salt in hand ready to rub into your own proverbial visual wound that he taketh pleasure in inflicting” - H R Wienheimer
Artist Brian Dettmer
From KINZ, TILLOU + FEIGEN:
Brian Dettmer sifts through stacks of antiquated books,
boxes of dusty cassette tapes, and piles of obsolete maps to uncover
the perfect source and subject for his conceptual explorations and
sculptural dissections. Dettmer alters pre-existing materials by
selectively removing and manipulating elements as a way to allow new
interpretations and ideas to emerge. With the precision of a surgeon,
Dettmer uses scalpels, tweezers, and other medical instruments to carve
into the surface of his found objects to reveal hidden meanings.
Brian Dettmer has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout North America and Europe. His work has been featured in several books and in 2007 he was selected as the featured artist by the Illinois Art Education Association, a program in which images of his work were incorporated into lesson plans for student art projects.
From Kid World to Photo World
Artist Yeondoo Jung translates the sparkling imagination emanating from kid drawings into photographs.
Via swissmiss
Jewelry Designer Mana Bernardes
Mana Bernardes is a Brazilian designer whose mantra may as well be, “Reduce, Reuse, Rejewel”. Certainly, she is not the first person to incorporate banal objects into the world of fashion, but there is a level of simplicity and sophistication in her work that is surprising given her typical raw materials such as toothpicks, hair clips or PET bottles.
Although pricier elements like pearls are sometimes fused with humbler materials, there is little effort to mask the origins of the latter. In fact, it is by fully embracing the physical properties of the various bits of plastic, metal or glass that Mana creates original and striking designs which challenge our notions on the durability and intrinsic value of everyday objects usually destined to be discarded without hesitation.
From TOUCH:
Mana
Bernardes is a young jewelry designer, poet, and visual artist from Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. Her interests and aptitudes in art and design
formed at an early age and continue to develop and transform. She
participated as “Design + Social,” organized by the Institute of PVC in
Rio de Janeiro, curated and produced the exhibition “Estampa de cada
Rosto” at Lurix Gallery in Rio and also exhibited “Fashion without
Frontiers” at Sao Paulo Fashion Week SPFW. In 2005, the Campana
brothers invited her to participate in the exhibition “J’en Rêve” at
the Cartier Foundation in France where she displayed an 8-meter mobile
and her video art piece, “Connecting through the Cord.” which was also
included in the commemorative exhibition of I.D. magazine.
Yukio Miyamoto - Illustrator Master
While we’re on the topic of eye popping photo realistic art, take a look at some of the work of Japanese artist Yukio Miyamoto. These images are already impressive enough in their execution, but even more amazing is the fact that they were done using Adobe Illustrator. If you have ever used Illustrator, you have also probably suffered more than one episode of “pen tool rage”, and will no doubt be in awe of the zen-like patience and discipline this guy must have to construct images of such phenomenal precision and detail.
More info and other illustrations by Miyamoto here.
