XIA XIA WAN

Hauntingly beautiful images from Xia Xia Wan - a chinese artist. These images are created by painting layers on glass creating this holographic 3D effect. WOW!

ALEX KANEVSKY

I absolutely love this painter! I love the way he throws down the paint!-- the colors! the compositions!...

ce magnifique!

I also like how they are rendered and abstract at the same time...They are like waking from a dream...

http://www.somepaintings.net/Alex.html

ANISH KAPOOR

This is Anish Kapoor, an artist from Mumbai, India. You probably are familiar with his work from Chicago, the silver sculpture at the top.

I don't know much about Anish, i just respond to the forms, the colors, the materials and the scale. I love that color red! These pieces feel as if some fine art magician has come in and cast a fine art spell on the space!

ROBERT IRWIN

Robert Irwin is an American Artist who began his career as an abstract expressionist in painting. However, over time he got out of the studio and began to do installations. Like James Turrell in the following post, these particular Robert Irwin pieces installations are investigating the perception of light and space.

I find these pieces meditative, calming, and thoughtful.

JAMES TURRELL

James Turrell is an amazing artist that uses light and the perception of light as his medium. I first saw his work when i lived in NYC. 

Similar to the spaces in these last two photos, i went to a room in Brooklyn, laid on the floor near sunset, and looked at the hole in the ceiling. It was quite an amazing experience as the interior, lit with the complementary color of the sky, had the effect of flattening out the plane of the sky -- it felt as if you were looking at a flat swatch of paint on the ceiling rather than an opening. It was a very peaceful and meditative experience using light, the fundamentals of color theory, and our physiological perception of light and color to create the experience. 

B.T.W. the photos above which appear to show geometric volumes are an illusion created by light -- there are no volumes actually there.

I love the way he takes the fundamental way we percieve the world (light) and brings a new context to it -- giving us the opportunity to SEE something we SEE everyday in a whole new way.

If you have a chance, try to see his work in real life! I think you will really enjoy the experience!

ZHANG HAIYING

This is the work of a Chinese painter, Zhang Haiying.

I love the way he throws down the paint!

zhanghaiying.com

RON MUECK

Ron Mueck is an Australian born artist known as a "hyperrealist" sculptor. I first saw that big face at the end of this post at the Saatchi Museum in London. Once viewed in real-life, these sculptures suck you in and hold you tight, hypnotizing you into a voyeuristic trance. You are almost sure they will open their eyes or turn anxiously to you and say "Stop Staring At Me!"

I love how you can just take scale and context and transform a seemingly "normal" moment into something extraordinary, unexpected, and provoking.

All Hail The Mueck!