Things come apart

Toronto-based photographer todd mclellanexplores retro to modern daily items that have, are, or will be in our everyday lives. displayed within the exhibition, every piece of various household items - a phone, lawnmower and typewriter - are meticulously taken apart, and arranged in an organized composition. in another take on a childhood fantasy, mclellan photographs the disassembled pieces as he ejects them into mid-air, allowing pieces to rain down in an explosion-like fashion - offering a commentary on obsolete technologies from the past.

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PEZ’s illustrations

Discovering French illustrator Pierre-Yves Riveau aka PEZ, based in Nantes. This freelance artist unveils his latest sketchbook, a series of drawings sketches full of precision and inventiveness.

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  • Posted 1 week ago
  • May 14th, 2013

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 Stafford Lane

Artist Ed Fairburn has recently come out with new works that live somewhere between sculptures and drawings. He’s still using traditional ink to draw on maps but now he’s cutting and layering maps to create incredibly intriguing works. 

  • Posted 2 weeks ago
  • May 9th, 2013

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Stranger Visions

“Information artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg recreates faces of people by extracting genetic information from found objects in the street for her experimental project titled Stranger Visions. Using saliva traced from a piece of gum on the floor or a discarded cigarette butt, not to mention loose hairs that can wind up just about anywhere, the artist and a team of biologists have constructed a series of three-dimensional human faces.”

(Source: mymodernmet.com)

Damage

New installation by artist Michael Murphy, one must view it from a specific angle. The sculptural work consists of a sea of 1,200 ping pong balls, painted black, and then suspended from a ceiling. 

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