Delphine Diallo

"Delphine Diallo was born in 1977, in Paris, to French and Senegalese parents. After graduating with distinction from the Acadamie Charpentier School of Visual Art in 1999, she worked as a designer and animator for a number of clients in the music industry, including Coldplay, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Manu Chao. In the last year she moved to New York City, where she works as a freelance graphic artist. She recently had her first show in Brooklyn at Harriets Alter Ego and her second at the Gallery MC.

In 2005, Delphine Diallo traveled to St. Louis, Senegal in search of her family heritage. The ensuing Magic Photo Studio series is inspired in large part by the work of Malick Sidibe, who ran a studio in Bamako, Mali, during the 1960s, producing earnest, straightforward portraits in whimsically painted glass frames. In her work, Diallo compresses pattern and image into a single composition; patterns extracted from the textiles, totemic animals, and plants are brought directly into the image itself and layered on top of the portraits. These techniques are drawn from her background as a graphic designer and illustrator. The alchemical mix of painting, sketching, and notation on top of the images also connects the work to a contemporary vein of graphic-novel and graffiti-influenced drawing in the manner of Zak Smith or Margaret Kilgallen. The result is a richly textured and deeply personalized approach to portraiture."

"I can't imagine living in a regular life with no art and no music. I'm dreamer even if the world is crazy." - Diallo

sumiinkclub

http://sumiinkclub.com/

sumi ink club is a los angeles-based drawing collective founded in 2005 by sarah anderson and luke fischbeck. the group holds regular open meetings to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on paper. in each of its permutations, sumi ink club uses group drawings as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. sumi ink club is non-hierarchical: all ages, all humans, all styles.

Superheadz: Japan

http://www.superheadz.com/

cute cameras from japan





by Shironeko Holga

hotel des arts: san francisco

http://www.sfhoteldesarts.com/paintedrooms.php


wow!!!!! this place is awesome!... and below are not even a fifth of the painting rooms they have availible...

"The luxury is in having a gallery of underground art at your doorstep, on your door, and, in some rooms, dangling over your head." - NY TIMES

447 Bush Street
San Francisco, California 94108 USA

Hotel Des Arts: San Francisco. These rooms are designed and painted by emerging artists from around the world. Some Painted Rooms are imaginative installations and some are edgy graffiti inspired works of art. They are available in all three of the room types listed below.


Vinyl Killer

Sam Flores

Kelly Tunstall

Jeremyville

Casey O'Connell


Brian Ermanski



Bask and Tes One



Jeremy Fish

andy goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy (born 26 July 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of natural and found objects, to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment. The materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art often include brightly-coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying, "I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole."[7] Goldsworthy is generally considered the founder of modern rock balancing. For his ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials.

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