The Art Issue 🎨

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I try to keep up with contemporary artwork, mostly to inspire my own work and thinking. This issue is a shortlist of 5 artists doing incredible things right now.

Let's take a look at some amazing artists 🎨
 

Rona Pondick

Rona Pondick is a New York-based sculptor, who builds strangely beautiful organic looking sculptures. Her work often involves anthropomorphizing everyday natural or human-made objects. Some of my favorite work is her Animal/Human Hybrids and her Tree/Human Hybrids. You can see her sculptures on display in the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2020 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts from Mar 5 - Apr 5 in NYC.
 

David Datuna

Remember the guy who ate the $120,000 banana duct-taped to a wall at Art Basel in Florida? He's put together a continuation of that work, with The Hungry Artist Exhibit at Galleria Ca' d'Oro in NYC. His work costs a lot less, and you can buy his banana for a mere $150.
 

Karen Margolis

If you've taken the subway in NYC, you may have come across one of Karen's mosaics. She often uses circles arranged in a way to reflect a combination of Zen Buddhism, molecular structures, and city maps. In her Maps and Holes series, she takes existing maps, obliterates them by burning holes into them, and then layers them in three dimensions to form intricate vascular mandalas. You can see some of Karen's work at Art on Paper in New York from Mar 5-8 in NYC.
 

A ee mi

A ee mi is a Taiwanese artist, who is turning out some fantastic mini-comics criticizing China's handling of the coronavirus. Chinese authorities have been accused of handling the crisis poorly and muffling early warnings from medical experts. In Yellow hearts say "No problem" and "Don't panic", A ee mi illustrates how a coronavirus carrier is sent home without proper treatment and spreads the virus to others.
 

Simone Giertz

Recently featured in WIred magazine, Simone Giertz builds barely functioning "Shitty Robots" on her YouTube channel. And recently, she constructed the TRUCKLA, long before Tesla actually got around to designing a pickup truck. Check out her amazing Breakfast Machine that feeds you Cheerios and milk for breakfast.

 

Keep making, and thanks for reading! 🙌

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Until next week,

Craig