Paige Smith is an American graphic designer and street artist. Her street art installations are sculptures made of resin and paper. Her first big project was to install these pieces all over the city of Los Angeles, California.
As a graphic designer the artist has been very successful working with international brands including PayPal, MTV, and Cisco.
With the help of a partner Smith recently launched a fashion line. The duo produce leather handbags that can switch from a backpack to a handbag.
Below a brief interview with the artist talking about what inspires her:
Some places to find her installations include old and worn buildings and phone booths.
Below a link to the website of Smith. Here you can see more of her street art installations:
Paige Smith is a diversified artist and designer. Her small sculptures are wonderful as they remind me of being a child and being exposed to the wonderful shapes and colors found when you sliced open a rock such as quartz.
Nicholas Galanin is an American multiple medium artist from Alaska. Nicholas Galanin was born in Sitka, Alaska in the year 1979. The artist works as a sculptor, with video and other digital mediums, and photographer. Galanin also is a musician.
Galanin studied at the collegiate level abroad earning a B.F.A. from London Guildenhall University. The artist went on to earn a M.F.A. from Massey University located in New Zealand.
Below a great interview with Nicholas Galanin:
Galanin represents the Tinglit and Aleut nations.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
One series done by Galanin featured sculptures of faces made from books, sometimes using as many as 2,000 pages. In this works the end sculpture might be a mask made from a book on Tinglit history. He even created a mask using a bible.
Galanin lists photographer Ed Curtis as a major influence. Curtis was known for his black and white images of Native Americans.
Rebecca Horn is contemporary artist born in the year 1944 in the city of Michelstad, Germany. Horn is a superbly well rounded artist that paints, sculpts, works with film and video, and also produces installation art. Horn uses very unique materials in her art including ostrich eggs, fossils, and 18 karat gold. Many of paintings are very abstract. Butterflies are recurring theme of the artist.
Rebecca Horn also enjoys writing poetry.
In this clip we view a gallery show from 2011:
For her artistic education Horn attended a school in Hamburg, Germany called the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, from the age of 20 to 26. Saint Martin’s School of Art located in London, England. Whilst in college in Hamburg she developed an awful lung infection due to working with materials such as fiberglass. She then made the switch to different materials including ostrich eggs.
The artist splits her time between Paris, France and Berlin, Germany.
In this clip we view an kinetic work of art by Rebecca Horn. How whimsical!
Horn began exhibiting her artwork in 2002.
The artist is part of many prominent collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
price range informaton: Most works priced between $2,000 and $200,000.
Stan Douglas is a contemporary photographer born in Vancouver, British Columbia in the year 1960. Douglas works in many mediums including photography, film, and installations. Douglas has won prizes for his photography and video work. For his collegiate studies Douglas attended the Emily Carr University of Art and Design located in Vancouver, British Columbia.
A major theme for the artist is the modern world. What are expectations might have been years or decades ago, to what they are now. Race is a sometimes a focus, as he is a black Canadian. I would call him the opposite of Kara Walker and her work with people of color.
Whereas Walker concentrates on feelings like sex and racism, Douglas tries to emphasize a feeling of isolation. He was one of few people of color in a mainly white Vancouver area. In this clip a great example of this as the artist films himself being mistaken for another person of color. Sometimes he felt invisible in his society, not the anger or rage that a Kara Walker personality might feel:
In this clip a brief interview the artist gives thanks for winning an award for best photography in 2013:
Three time participant in the Venice Biennale.
The artist lives and works out of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Winner of a grant from the International Center of Photography.
In 2008 Douglas won the Bell award for best video artist.
In the late 1980s the artist made several short films less than one minute long that were shown on television in place of commercials. People couldn’t figure out what was going on and actually called the station to ask what was being offered for sale. This clip has many of these short segments:
Douglas enjoys taking a box office movie, then updating the interior and slowing it down. In many ways the artist has similar ideas to Andy Warhol. One video short had two films going at the same time. One the edited version, the other side showed what was cut out. This is a similar format to what many critics say was Warhol’s best movie, The Chelsea Girls. In this movie two films are shown side by side, with one in color and one in black and white.
Another idea Douglas uses that is similar to Warhol is his idea to stop time or at least slow it down.
price range information: Photographs range from $3,000 to $30,000.
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