Artist Research: Trostocorp

Trustosorp is one of my favorite street artists ever. He/She/They are a Manhattan-based project that targets popular culture through imitating industrial and commercial signs and product packaging. They also make socially poignant billboards and signage. Here is a little taste:

Artisit Research: Jetsonorama

Jetsonorama is a photographer/wheat paste artist. Most of his work focuses on Native Americans and life in the Arizona desert. His work is beautiful and when photographed against the landscape it creates an interesting juxtaposition of photography, landscape, subject.

 

 Here is a link to his blog. speakingloudandsayingnothing.blogspot.com

Artist Research: Theo Jansen

Theo Jansen is a Dutch engineer and sculptor. He creates large walking sculptures called Strandbeests made primarily out of PVC pipe. They are designed to walk on the beach utilising the wind and navigating on the sand without getting stuck. They move with a fluid motion that is almost anilmal in quality. They are absolutely beautiful machines. He has been working on this project for 16 years and originally started in effort to design something that could spread sand from the beach back onto the deteriorating dunes.

Artist Research: Os Gemeos

Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo are twin brothers. Together they form the street art duo Os Gemeos ( Portugese for 'The Twins').


This is their half of a collaboration piece that they did with another street artist named Blu in Lisbon, Portugal on the left. On the right is an 80ft piece that they did with another artist called Futuro2000 in New York City. The man is wearing some shorts that actually have every flag of every country in the world but the colors have been changed on all of them. They did it to promote a sense of global unity and mindfulness.

http://osgemeos.com.br/index.php/blog/arquivo/lisboa-mural/

http://artobserved.com/2010/09/ao-on-site-video-new-york-os-gemeos-and-futura2000s-mural-at-p-s-11-in-chelsea/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artist Research: James Turrell

James Turrell is an American installation artist that focuses on the use of light in his artwork. At sunset there is a light show that changes the color of the sky by contrasting different coloed lights against a central skylight. 

http://nga.gov.au/turrell/  

This is his latest piece. It is a permanent structure at the National Gallery of Australia titled Within, Without. If you follow the link under the picture there is a short video about the work with a statement by James Turrell.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/light-fantastic.html   

Roden's crater is his most famous work. It is a naked-eye observatory that he has built in a crater in the Painted Desert. They speak briefly about it in the video and is very interesting.