LORENZO ANZALONE
I do like

ONE YES GOOD

The artist creates tattoos on public spaces (skins) on commission. Prayers are written and covered inside the designs. High-gloss latex.

TWO YES GOOD

Ink on film

Justin Francavilla

His art is about competition between men, survival, in a more mechanized digital world. Humanity leaving waste and losing touch with reality. Mostly ink on paper without any mechanized help, by hand.

THREE YES GOOD

Alice Leora Briggs

Ciudad Juarez's violence. Her work deals with madness.

She uses different medium, the main is the sgraffito technique. 

FOUR YES GOOD

Bombing

Mirror Vibration

Kalika Gorski

Her work is from the aftermath of 9/11 attacks and the wars that sparked after that. She focuses for the most part on Muslim women and war zones. She uses watercolor and ink.

I don't understand

ONE NO UNDERSTAND

Sheila Ross

TWO NO UNDERSTAND

Nicole De Brabandere

THREE NO UNDERSTAND

Punch drunk monk

by Jason Watson

FOUR NO UNDERSTAND

Jason Noushin

FIVE NO UNDERSTAND

Jordan Buschur

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FIVE YES GOOD MY FAVORITE!

detail of inside

inside detail

Home-Sweet-Home #2

2011

10x6.5".

handmade paper, pins,

xerox transfer, tissue

"Refuge" a book

Pam Cooper

Pam Cooper was born in the UK but moved to the States (where she is working now.) She has studied in Nueva York at the Pratt Institute. 

What is the feeling of "home," or sacred/secret place. This place of tranquillity is supposed to allow an identity and a mental inner space to emerge.

She is concerned with childhood and how kids relate to a house and their surroundings; this is a reflection of society and the environment that will affect their lives. The house becomes a kind of prison under the pressure of social problems, the children are confined inside and are vulnerable. "our young girls today are coming of age in an American culture that celebrates dress, beauty and popularity at the expense of nearly everything else." 

Mixed media. Sculptor, printer, paper maker of hand made abaca paper. Drawings pinned on the wall. Metal allowed to rust and stain. Xerox transfers. Subtle xeroxing of pencil and charcoal lines. Stitching. Small wooden furnitures. Pins, thread, hangers, buttons, scissors and needles from a bygone era. Drawings based on old family photos. Constructions, installations, works on paper, books.

Her style is minimal, static, has got continuity; it's representational and abstract with the use of different medium. No use of color beside the rust. Closed form. Sculptural framing. Realistic proportions in miniatures. Values distorted by xerox and positioning inside the 3D spaces. Unity.

I would steal her simple approach of clear positive and negative spaces. Great variety in the use of different medium. I appreciate her combined use of sculpture and drawing. I love her houses, almost like a fable; they also look like toys. I love the scenarios and the intimate areas that she creates and that can be made my own with the imagination. I love that she made her own paper which seems to be made of leather, to be heavier. There is a view from the outside and one from the inside, outside of the sculptures/drawings and inside of them; outside of our memory and inside of remembrance and reevaluation. The characters go in and come out of the 2D surface, they are "alive." I love her clear (even though sophisticated) approach with a vast and multiple subject.

http://pamcooper.com/default.htm