We first featured some of the art of Bradley Munkowitz back in November 2011. Today we’re delighted to be adding some of Bradley’s new work to the site.
Bradley was commissioned back in 2011 to create a huge mural for a friend’s tech company.
“Munkowitz was hired by his dear friend Rebecca Allen, the CEO and Creative Director of the Boston-based tech company Infrared5, to design a mural for their studio space which had recently undertaken a full renovation… The artwork was to be 11′ x 11′, approximately 13,000 pixels square, and was to be output at a local print facility specializing in large format digital printing.. The project was a delicious design challenge, and a thorough exploration was conducted to get to the final submission…”
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You can see Bradley’s original page together with more of his new work here.
Carl Cashman is a contemporary artist based in Devon, who creates stunning, vibrant geometric-based optical art. Some of Carl’s work is painted using UV reactive paint, which adds a further visual element to the pieces when seen in the right environment.
Ribbon #2 (under UV)
Acrylic on Watercolour
2012
Carl CashmanRibbon #4
Acrylic on Watercolour
2012
Carl CashmanRibbon #4 (under UV)
Acrylic on Watercolour
2012
Carl Cashman
Carl originally studied art at Dartington College of Arts and graduated from there in 2008. He cites Bridget Riley, M C Escher and the Beautiful Losers as major artistic influences.
Where do you get the ideas for your pieces?
My ideas tend to just come from a doodle. Everything of mine is hand drawn. I think draughtsmanship is a skill on its own to be appreciated and I think computers have taken a lot of the effort away from creating works of art… although they do obviously have their place, and as my work develops I may feel the need to use one. I tend to paint most of my ideas as I sometimes find it hard to picture how the tones on a piece such as the Ribbons will turn out.
Against the grain
Acrylic on Ply
2012
Carl Cashman80×90
Acrylic on Ply
2011
Carl CashmanR/W/B
Acrylic on Ply
2012
Carl Cashman
What do you use to create your work?
My kit includes: a ruler, pencil, art tape (for more intricate works), a compass and a protractor.
Most of my works are painted with acrylics on ply, although recently I’ve started using watercolour paper and canvases and have also painted directly onto old Record sleeves.
What artists do you currently like?
I enjoy collecting artwork myself – usually people I find inspirational. I have pieces by: Banksy, Kaws, Todd James and Espo. Amongst others I am currently really enjoying Eric Shaw, Ben Rawson, Matthew Palladino and LX One.
Untitled
Acrylic Paint on Record Sleeve
2011
Carl CashmanSomething Different
Acrylic on Ply 3D model
2012
Carl CashmanUntitled
Acrylic on Ply
2011
Carl Cashman
Why Op Art?
When I first left Dartington, I was going through a stencil phase, but one piece was reported locally as a Banksy so I realised that if I ever wanted to be respected for what I do… stencils were not the answer. I’ve been making Op Art based work for around the last 18 months. I’ve enjoyed it since school days when we did lots of projects based on M C Escher… I find the process of creating them hypnotic.
What else do you do outside of your art?
When I’m not living like a hermit spending all my time painting I love going to festivals. Music is one of my inspirations and I’m mainly to be found in the dance tents. I don’t really get to see as much other art as I would like, but I help out at shows like Moner if I can. I find the experience of seeing artists like Steve Powers, Herakut and Peeta at work an honor.
Below you can see some of the preparatory work that goes into creating one of Carl’s peices together with a finished piece.
Study for R/W/B
2012
Carl CashmanStudy for Ribbon
Pencil on Watercolour
2012
Carl CashmanRibbon #1 (under UV)
Acrylic on Watercolour
2012
Carl Cashman
Carl sells his work via his Carl Cashman website. I would highly recommend that you take a look at this as the work is extremely reasonably priced and highly original.
You can also see more of Carl’s work and his other photos on his flickr stream.
Australian artist Chris Perry makes visually involving black and white ‘circle based’ Op Art works, often containing hidden messages.
Chris doesn’t use a computer to work out the designs and instead plans and draws everything by hand. This gives a slightly ‘imperfect’ feel to the works – the circles aren’t even for example – but it’s something that I think works really well. Chris sells his work as posters from his website.
Michelle Genders ‘Phenomenal’ opens tomorrow at the Paper Plane Gallery, 727 Darling Street Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia. Entrance to the exhibition is free.
Michelle Genders - Infinite
“In the midst of making work, I’ve always found myself trying to create an illusion. I decided to embrace this tendency and began investigating Professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka’s visual illusions. He studies the underlying mechanisms of visual perception in the brain and generates illusions that activate those mechanisms. As compared with ‘Op Art’ of the 1960’s, advances in computer technology and neuroscience have generated illusions of increased complexity and intensity.
Michelle Genders - Things you can see to indicate things that you can't see 1
I began to develop my own drawings and small-scale sculpture in response to the Professor’s illusions, and the papers that he writes about them, by using some of the principals he employs. Upon review of the Professor’s website, and the work I’d been making, I realised I’d originally been drawn to particular illusions, and created certain forms in response to them, because I was reading meaning into them.”
The exhibition opens on 28th March 2012 (6-8pm) and runs from the 29th of March until 15th Apri. Opening times are Thu & Fri 12 to 6pm, Sat & Sun 11am to 4pm.
“Josef Albers en Amerique” is currently on at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, France. The exhibition brings together around 80 works and traces the artistic journey foreshadowing the “Homage to the Square” series, starting with his early works on paper. It is the first time that such a large number of pieces have been exhibited in Europe and contains many rarely exhibited pieces.
Josef Albers, Color study for homage to the square, platinium, not dated
There are two additional rooms of the show which look at Albers’ influence on his students, many of whom were pioneering Op Artist themselves, including Kennth Noland, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Eva Hesse and Robert Rauschenberg.
The exhibition runs until the 30th April 2012. If you are anywhere near Paris, I would highly recommend that you pay the exhibition a visit.
