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Showing posts with label mixed media portraits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mixed media portraits. Show all posts

Screwing Around With Andrew Meyers

Sunday, September 4, 2011 0 comments

Andrew Meyers' art is all screwed up, in the best of ways. The artist creates portraits out of screws, the elevation of each screw creating the image for a sculpture/painting. Sometimes he paints the tops of the screws to make the portrait morph into a pointillist image. Love all the little X's of the screws!





His more traditional paintings are really nice as well.




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Nick Gentry's Obsolete Portraits

Sunday, April 17, 2011 0 comments

From Switched -- "Central St. Martins grad Nick Gentry appropriates obsolete tech materials -- like floppy disks and VHS tape -- as the media for his paintings. As the world moves further away from these kinds of storage devices, Gentry suggests, we lose touch with the terrestrial. His work is nostalgic for a time when objects were less disposable, before "human existence [was] governed by billions of invisible data files," as he writes on his site."
He uses recycled materials such as computer disks, VHS tapes, floppy disks - incorporating them in the elements of his portraits, along with painting.







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