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

Lucid Living

Miwa Matreyek

http://www.semihemisphere.com

CalArts Experimental Animation Alumni 2007

Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and multi-media artist working in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as works that integrate animation and live performance/installation via projection. Matreyek is interested in how animation transforms when it is combined with body and space (and vice-versa) and takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality. On one hand, Matreyek's performance can be viewed as a cinematic experience taking place on a screen. On the other hand, what is seen on the screen is a collapsed product of multiple layers of animation, objects and body, rhythmically unfolding. Her work exists in a juxtaposition of illusion and non-illusion.

 

Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. With music from Anna Oxygen, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin and Mileece.

cleanliness next to godliness

The work of Rik Oostenbroek

Dutch Digital Artist

http://secretshowcase.com/

Society of the Spiritually Concious

 

Photo Credit: Yoshi-Sodeoka

The Society of the Spiritually Conscious (SSC):

- abstracted mandalas with western symbols
- bloated devotees
- handmade typography with art nouveau influences
- outdoor ceremonial circle with endless silk mat for self discovery which pours out into the waters of the ocean.
- giant sphere osculating with great speed creating a vortex in the center
- charismatic leader who has you sacrifice your most prized possession to the center of the universe.
- no fears, no hunger. i think we've been drugged.

 photo credit: Narima

Im covered with white salt dust from spending the day farming salt on a tractor. My face is covered with a fine layer of white powder. My hair is undone and wild. My right eye glazed over from damage from the glaring sun on the white surface.

Photo Credit: Alexandra Rus

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