Discovering Brilliance

Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Birds in Motion

Dennis Hlynsky, a film and animation professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, creates videos at the intersection of art and science. Hlynsky transforms ordinary footage of birds and insects into ethereal illustrations by digitally tracing the paths they travel. 

Hlynsky’s work is typically featured in galleries, where the video is projected on large screens with recorded sound. To see more videos from Hlynsky, please visit his Vimeo channel. 

San Miguel Mission (as a representative of Mission Style architecture)

Museum of Outdoor Arts Element House MOS Architects

Gila Cliff Dwellings

College of Santa Fe Visual Arts Center Ricardo Legorreta

Scherger/Kolberg Residence Bart Prince 

Winter and Summer Houses Under One Roof

OE House by Fake Industries Architectural Agonism and Aixopluc in Alforja, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia.

The OE House is a montage. The clients wanted a double house, so they could move from one half to the other, according to their state of mind. They did not like to spend their holidays traveling; they preferred to move downstairs, and do it for real, closing the quarters above. We provided them with two well-known domestic environments—the open frame of the case study houses for the hedonistic pleasure of the warm season, topped with the interiorized existentialism of Le Corbusier’s Maison Jaoul for the windy months in la Sierra de la Mussara. We did it literally. The resulting exquisite corpse—wrapped by the most Spanish architectural prop of all: the persiana—ensures the schizophrenic differentiation of modes of habitation as much as it negotiates the impossible encounter of both types.

Roxanna Walitzki’s “Exquisite Corpse EP.”

Roxanna Walitzki’s debut EP is currently available on her Bandcamp alongside  limited edition prints and jewelry, featuring Roxanna as the subject, by her sister Redd Walitzki (Previously on Supersonic).

Using Fauré and Debussy’s melodies for voice and piano as framework, Roxanna’s imaginative electronic renditions transform and reawaken the scores with emotive, ornamental textures.  Subtle sounds sourced from nature give muted voice to the rustling chords behind the poems. Carefully manipulated synths, vocal glitches, and sweeping guitar notes (contributed by Anomie Belle, who also mastered the tracks) add orchestral dynamics to the art-songs’ delicate, timeless power, while gently flowing introductions and postludes connect the scenes.

Sure I do, there is some great architecture coming from the Baltic States, here is one old and one new for each of the three countries you mentioned, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania:

St. Olaf’s Church (Estonia)

Estonian National Museum Dorell Ghotmeh Tane (Estonia)

House of Blackheads (Latvia)

Great Amber Concert Hall Volker Giencke (Latvia)

Vilnius University (Lithuania)

“GET REAL” at Stephanie Chefas Projects.

Opening on June 10th, 2016 at Stephanie Chefas Projects in Portland, Oregon is the group exhibition “GET REAL.”

“GET REAL” highlights realist paintings and drawings from contemporary artists Stephanie Buer, Delfin Finley, Lily Mae Martin, Ian Miller, Joel Daniel Phillips, Jeff Ramirez, Eric Wert, and Elizabeth Winnel. 

“The eight visionaries present a multifaceted view of everyday imagery, exploring the personal and universal alike to find magic in the familiar. Whether drawing inspiration from reality or staged experiences, the artists strike a perfect narrative balance as with Phillips’ voyeuristic portraits or Ramirez’s hyperrealist renderings of recognizable objects. By way of Buer’s unmistakable urban landscapes and the still life of Wert, or through the sexuality and social explorations of Martin and Finley, viewers will feast on series of rich visuals drawn from the well of modern day experience.” - Stephanie Chefas.

The Dismal Fortunes of Old Bank Buildings

“The People’s Trust” is a series of photographs that document financial institutions across America, from the remains of grand, re-purposed 20th and 19th century structures to modernist glass structures to the financial institutions of today.

In the words of the artist Michael Vahrenwald:

I am drawn to former bank buildings because of what they tell about our culture, past and of the present— a lot of it is simply being struck by a time when money was more local, banks spread out & anchoring individual communities, thousands of solid stone structures in the place of a handful of glass skyscrapers downtowns across the globe. As I began photographing I couldn’t help but register the headstrong optimism in these buildings, the grandiose way in which they were fortresses built to last— all that in contradistinction to what they’re used for now. It fascinates me, that in their current state, these structures still project so much of their former authority. The project’s not about what I like or don’t like, but about the how odd these building are today in a world where the aesthetics (as well as the simple facts) of power, wealth, & class have all fundamentally changed.

James Bullough’s “Breaking Point” at Thinkspace Gallery.

Currently on view in the project room at Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City, California is artist James Bullough’s exhibition “Breaking Point.”

From the press release: “In this new series of works, Bullough captures moments of existential fracture, disruption, and personal breach through the expressive movement of the body, asking his models to channel personal memory and to recall experiences of breaking at the moment of their capture. Working with dancers from Berlin [Where Bullough is based currently], Bullough begins with the body in motion, arrested in an expense of negative space, then dissembles it further, splicing, striating, and fragmenting its surfaces and planes. The models remain anonymous and faceless throughout, an omission intended to reaffirm the symbolic universality of the emotive physical gesture.”