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| "The Creatrix" |
I've just discovered
Mark Ryden's
Wondertoonel collection, which has an awesome creepy Tim Burton thing going on. His work is too unsettling to hang all over the walls (for me at least), but it's definitely very interesting. He describes his artwork as "the visual debris from contemporary pop culture," which I think is a pretty good way to put it. He currently has work on display in Los Angeles, but I'm hoping he makes his way to Texas soon. His website,
http://www.markryden.com, is definitely worth a visit.
British artist Jason de Caires Taylor and MUSA (Museo Subacuatico de Arte) are doing their best to save the coral reefs near Cancun. Taylor created these statues (made from a unique cement that encourage coral growth) based on casts from local Mexican people. As you can see, the ocean is pretty barren in this spot - Here's hoping it works!
I've also just become familiar with Brooklyn graffiti artist
Dain, who after a couple of New York shows
displayed his work at a museum in Paris over the summer. The snobby French didn't run him out of town, yay! He's apparently quite an enigmatic man. He's elderly (that surprised me) and therefore really inspired by old Hollywood glam he remembers from the 50's and 60's.
And, for good measure, a little bit from E.H. Shephard, Pooh's illustrator. Aw.
