Hidden Niagara by Kathy Toth
It’s kind of a personal “dejavu” for myself, today we’re featuring the “Hidden Niagara” photo series by the Toronto photographer Kathy Toth. Hidden cultures, social and economic change and the seemingly banal are all themes that dominate Kathy’s work. Kathy is a multidisciplinary artist, a largely self-taught photographer with a background in formal fine art painting. Kathy treats her photographic subject matter as a form of social commentary about the changes she sees around her and the marginalization she sees of art, communities and the changing face of industry and communities today.
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James Roper Paintings
Highlight for the multi-talented English artist James Roper (illustrator, painter and sculptor) with these colorful and eye-catching paintings from the series “Exvoluta” and “Hypermass” plunging us into his unique and surreal world. “The construction of each painting fuses disparate images from a variety of sources such as fashion magazines, animation stills, comics, the Internet as well as my own photo’s and drawings.”
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Gipsy Portrait by Jose Ferreira
Marginalized by society or nomadic and heir of a measureless culture? The history of the gypsies still stumbles around deep controversies and its condition remains tied in a complex lacing of mysteries and doubts. Our imprecise historical knowledge about his theme, tell us that this enigmatic people came originally from northwest India and, for reasons still unexplained nowadays, were forced to leave the territory, becoming nomadic. Their first steps in Europe occurred during XII century, but their presence in Portugal only dates from mid XV century. Six centuries later, gypsies are still associated with extra-sensorial and divine capabilities, and from a social point of view, are an ethnic minority that either self-exclude themselves or gets marginalized by our society. “Nomadic Sight” is a documental photographic project raised from the need to acknowledge and assimilate different sights and realities of everyday’s life nowadays, providing a different approach and perspective on these enigmatic people.
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Welcome to Earth
A very impressive collection of time-lapse videos, 179 to be exact, joined together in masterpiece compiled by Luc Bergeron into a 4 minute short entitled “Welcome to Earth”. The movie features cities as New York, Shanghai, London, Miami, Tokyo, Dubai between others and the background music is by Wolf with the track “First Aid Kit”. We live in a beautiful world, wouldn’t be wonderful if we could all enjoy it in the same way.
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Jacques de Beaufort Paintings
Surrealism was the first thing that came to my mind when I recently look to the artwork of the American Jacques de Beaufort. Each unique painting brings me emotions and thoughts that makes me wonder for hours as they can be really intense if you let your mind go. “Psychopompos are spirits from the non-visible world that have the ability to cross between the barrier that separates us from the other. As a mediator between the conscious and unconscious realms, the psychopomp has the ability to restore psychic order and bring forth a deeper level of consciousness and clarity. I believe in a Shamanistic and Alchemical art that can act in this way. The painting is an intermediate agent negotiating the liminal space between the everyday and the Archetypal.”
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Amy Casey Painting
Since earning her BFA in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1999, Amy Casey has shown her work regionally and nationally with solo shows in Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Her work has been published in the New York Times, New American Paintings, Juxtapoz, Hi Fructose and Elephant Magazine. She enjoyed a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center and a summer residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA- the latter in conjunction with the Ohio Arts Council. She was artist in residence at Zygote Press in 2006 and is currently working there as a Resident Artist.
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Rita Melo Paintings
Rita Melo is an artist born in 1982 in the Portuguese city of Oporto, with a degree in Escola Universitaria das Artes of Coimbra, Post-graduation by Universidade de Belas Artes of Lisboa in the same variant and a master in Visual Arts by Universidade de Évora. She’s exhibiting her work since 1999 in galleries and Biennial Exhibitions of Contemporary Art. The selection of works presented here are not only oil paintings but some use mixed techniques.
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Animal Portraits by Tiago Xavier
Another great series of animal captures by the Portuguese freelancer Tiago Xavier aka Tiagumos based in Lisabon. “Born in Oporto in 1985, currently residing and working in Lisbon, he showed an early passion for art and creativity, and drawing was his vehicle of expression. Expressing on a piece of paper his environment has been a strong tool to reach the point where he is at the moment. His education is based on Graphic Design, but his real passion is photography.”
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Mental Disorder Posters by Patrick Smith
A beautiful set of minimal posters that depict the essence of mental disorders. “Patrick Smith’s deceptively simple designs capture the seriousness of conditions like obsessive compulsive disorder, anorexia nervosa and Agoraphobia. In August 2010 I designed a series of posters on the subject of mental health.”
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“It’s Miami. It has to be Shorts” by Mauricio Candela
Mauricio Candela’s lastest campaign. He and Conill Saatchi & Saatchi USA joined forces and developed a creative campaign for their client Miami Short Film Festival. The agency found an interesting way to relate Miami with the Short Film Festival by using the copy “IT’S MIAMI. IT HAS TO BE SHORTS.” The pictures where used in magazines, posters, badges, festival programs, social and much more.
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The Big Hair Story by Caesar Lima
“A creative collaboration with Daven Mayedan and Leibi Carias, hair is such a big element of female beauty. We can say it is the picture frame of the face and here we explore the possibilities in an exagerated manner.In the 18th century big hair was definitely the ‘in’ thing and many styles were modelled over a cage frameor horsehair pads – the bigger the better.”
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André Brito Nude Photography
A very special highlight for the sensual, fine art captures of André Brito, a photographer based in Porto, Portugal, specialized in nude, fashion, beauty and advertising photography. We’re displaying some of his latest work, all nudes in monochromatic tones witch enhances the shapes and forms of the human body, an art where he clearly masters.
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