ILLUSTRATION - Lee's pen art

Korean born, Brooklyn based Il Lee is best known for his ballpoint pen abstract artworks which he has been doing for more than 30 years. It is stunning to think about the labor that goes into each of these works, and not to mention how many pens it must takes to do the larger pieces, as big as 8′ x 12′ feet. I especially love the blue works featured here.

ART - Jean Wells

 

Coke and Hamburger.
2 feet tall x 0.5 foot diameter and 1.5 feet tall x 1 foot , 2010.

 

American artist Jean Wells began sculpting in the late 1980's using a beguiling array of materials and objects, large and small. Playful, paradoxical and full of technical finesse, Wells offers not only visual pleasures, but stimulating food for thought with her Pop icons of ice cream, soda and pin up queens.

 

Fitting neatly into an art historical discourse that revolves around the loaded topic of consumerism, a conversation that includes such twentieth century stalwarts as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Jeff Koons, among others, Wells also invokes more rarefied luminaries such as Nikki de Saint Phalle, Wayne Thiebaud and Takashi Murakami. Like many postmodern artists working with a blend of pop culture iconography and autobiography, Wells' work is charming and nostalgic, yet packs a punch with its satisfying bite of underlying poignancy, offering an authentic and personal undercurrent that balances the lyrical. 

 

Wells is deeply inspired by her sumptuous materials, and works with an exquisite palette of beautifully colored glass that she has custom created for her sculptures. These unique glass creations provide her with an incredibly wide selection of tones, qualities of reflection and color gradations, allowing her to shade forms, variegate and layer colors with great precision and nuance. Wells hand cuts the glass, and keeps a reserve of tiny scrap pieces that allow her to add details and touches of color that keep the surfaces lively and variable. Like many artists, she relies upon her personal history, imagination and even her dream life to arrive at the ideas she will pursue as actual objects.

 

Raised in the wholesome landscape of the evergreen Pacific Northwest, Wells was born into a large artistic family with a strong traditional skill set grounded in such old world techniques such as fresco secco, realism and mosaics. At an early age the young artist apprenticed with her father, mosaic artist Thomas Wells, and learned the painstaking craft and iconography of classical Byzantine-style mosaics as he completed a large commission for the prestigious and architecturally celebrated St. Demetrios Greek Church in Seattle. Having worked for a number of years in paintings and ceramics, Wells has recently rediscovered her love of mosaics and in keeping with her playful, trickster nature, she prefers to turn the traditional uses of this medium on their head and make sculpture instead of murals.

FASHION DESIGN / ART - Mother of pearl

                     

This. is. Great.

This year, Mother of pearl has collaborated with celebrated artist Fiona Banner to produce a series of prints, wich are the foundtions of the collection. Much of Banner's work steams from her fascination of language. Recently Bannar has explored publishing as a performative act.

Her taste is quite silent but expressive.
As she wants to draw with a pencil rather than a paint markers. I catch this article on Style bubble blog. I remember when I worked on university project between Nike and Rick Owens, melting the confort of a jumpsuit with a super-fine cuts or with a particolar textile tecnology , basically simple but sophisticatedly perfect...mmmh.. you would discover  new hidden flavour in Sportswear garnments.

 

Check out the web site M. of P.

INSPIRATION - The Sketchbook project

It's like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.

Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the world.

After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.

Anyone - from anywhere in the world - can be a part of the project. To participate and have us send you a sketchbook that will go on tour, start by choosing a theme to the right.

---------------->Partecipate!

The sketchbook project 2011 Tour Seattle

This is an expemple of Corinne Borden's schetchbook 

A PLACE TO GO: LE PETIT BAIN

LE PETIT BAIN is a brand new concept moored near The Quai François Mauriac (13e district), on the river Seine, close to the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. A floating venue with a capacity of 450 people, build to host gigs and DJs (indie pop, world music, electro and more), art and dance exhibitions. But you can also simply choose to chill on its roof top, enjoying the aquatic garden. Launched by the association La Guinguette Pirate July 6, Petit bain is already a great success, an original place where audience and artists can exchange and interract.