The Borough of Trees

Gail-Marie Boykewich

www.gailboykewich.com

In a small studio in the New Jersey heartland she illuminates vignettes of the surreal and the banal, crossing over the two realities with such fluidity who is to think that these subjects are not members of your own family. Her aesthetic touches on the folk art traditions but with such sophistication it turns it on its head. A bright vernacular yet her melancholy subjects eyes see to feel like portals into another world.

Albert and Alexi 

Acrylic

Danny the Canadian Postman
Acrylic

Hilcrest Cafe
Acrylic

Blue Box

Wooden 3d Diorama

Twinning
Acrylic on printed fabric

robots dont have mothers

 

Pen and Ink abstract illustration created for a
series on artificial life circa 2005

beard band

Pen and Ink illustration for the band "the Union Line" a visiting artist series poster for iTunes at Apple in Cupertino, CA 2010

by 

me.

cleanliness next to godliness

The work of Rik Oostenbroek

Dutch Digital Artist

http://secretshowcase.com/

Faile

Faile

Keywords: Pulp, vernacular, wood work, collage, pop art, sexy, funky, urban, pattern, textural, contemporary, vintage, typographic, illustrative, comic, advertising, experimental, humorous.

The Crown Center

Our new album is out. Hand made screen printed just for u:

Topaz Rags

The Crown Center

NNF198—7" ($5)

West Coast ghost squad Topaz Rags stalk back into the deadlights with a fresh vinyl single, their first new material since the Capricorn Born Again LP. Recorded in the heart of winter in a room with one blue light bulb, “The Crown Center” is pure nightprowler music: quaking bass, grime-jazz keys, dusty drums, witch choirs floating through the smog and into sleeping homes with the power lines cut. The sound of crime to come. The flip (“You Go On”) slips deeper into the psych-psycho psyche, a bleached-brain riff-rhythm grinding away endlessly while voices and electric piano stabs arc across the stereo field, raining ash. A grimmer twist on the Topaz formula, the dreamer’s dream turned dark. 33 RPM 7 inches of variously colored vinyl in hand-silkscreened cardstock sleeves. Edition of 345.

Bits & Pieces

Pixelated Sculptures by Shawn Smith

What would Ed Fella Do?

Fella Collections

Designer People - Ed Fella 

Dust 2 Dust

 from ilovedust

needle and threads

For his graduation project from the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Siggi Eggertsson designed a quilt based upon his childhood memories (obviously a Michael Jordan fan). It’s 2 x 2.5 metres and made from 10,000 pieces. The quilter, Johanna Viborg took 250 hours over six weeks to complete it.

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Ray Materson

Ray Materson began making his intricate needlework pictures, which measure about 3 by 2 inches each, from unraveled socks. He was in prison at the time, serving a 25-year sentence for kidnapping and robbery after becoming an alcoholic and drug addict. His unlikely life story of redemption through art is aptly, if punningly, told in Sins and Needles: A Story of Spiritual Mending, written by Materson and his wife Melanie. www.raymaterson.com
 

 The Prisoner
1991

House on York Road
1994

 

Everything is Extraordinary

This year has been creatively fruitful and recently I have realized that 'happiness' is found through work. Not because of the final outcome but because of the process which in turn gives me a sense of purpose. I have been working on a film project that has slowly been evolving. The following imagery are just bits and pieces of stories and inspirational artifacts Ive been researching of people who live such lives, specifically in the baron desert landscapes of the western united states.

Salvation Mountain: Leonard Knight

William Pester: The Palm Springs Hermit

Pester had a cabin  in Palm Canyon and another next to a hot spring in Chino Canyon, where he lived during the summer months. He was the first "nature boy," putting on clothes, often a monk's robe, when curious canyon visitors came into view. He earned a living making canes from palm blossom stalks, fashioning Indian arrowheads, and selling postcards with a message urging proper diet and healthful living. Though he spent many hours roaming the canyons, he had an equal passion for reading. Years later a large library was discovered in his deserted cabin. In the 1920s, Pester moved from Palm Canyon but returned every weekend with his telescope, charging ten cents to look at the moon or at Lincoln's profile on the distant canyon wall.

Bill Pester at this palm log cabin in Palm Canyon, California, 1917. With his "lebensreform" philosophy, nudism and raw foods diet, he was one of the many German immigrants, who "invented" the hippie lifestyle more than half a century before the 1960s. He left Germany to avoid military service in 1906 at age 19, for a new life in America. (Photo Courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California)

"Rudolph Valentino, while working on a French Foreign Legion movie in the desert about 1920, is entertained by Peter Pester, the hermit of Palm Springs."

head wounds

burlesque of north america

Something Wicked

Is this real? Isn’t this real? What is real? Am I real?

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable: End of an Era, 2009
Bull's head, gold, gold-plated steel, glass and formaldehyde solution
with a Carrara marble plinth

$100 million diamond- studded skull

Francis Bacon: