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Andrew Abbott, Paintings.

Wonderfully bizarre paintings by Halifax, Nova Scotia-based artist Andrew Abbott.

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The Art and Science of Connor Bell

Connor Bell is a native of Novia Scota who moved to Montreal for big city culture.  He works as a programmer mainly in Unity and iOs.  He said that he realized that as he was getting his computer science degree that he wanted to apply what he was learning to art.  His elegant and beautiful motion creations are evidence of his success in doing that.  About this he said “ I have a lot of friends who are more traditional fine artists who I also learn a lot from in terms of artistic intent and meaning and have been slowly starting to apply that to my work “. It seems that there are a lot of creators like Connor Bell around these days who combine science and art.  I do not think it is too much of a stretch to compare what these artists/scientists do to someone like Leonardo da Vinci - someone was equally passionate about both science and art and in fact, saw them as basically the same thing.

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Surreal Art by Erika Lizee

Erika Lizee is a versatile artist from Chicago, Illinois. She earned her BFA in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and her MFA in Painting from California State University, Northridge

Through my artwork I seek to express the conflicting feelings of wonder and uncertainty that I experience when contemplating the fluid and impermanent nature of reality. 

Conceptually, my inquiry spans from the morphing of human understanding from what is unknown to known, to the creative process of manifesting our thoughts from the intangible to the tangible, to the existential questions of our relationship to both the invisible and visible realms. 

In my installations, I utilizing illusionistic painting where surfaces of the gallery walls become real and metaphorical dividing lines between the realms of things that do not physically exist, and those that do. 

Mysterious and abstract elements appear beyond the surface of the wall, while others emerge from this space into the physical realm of the viewer. 

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Painting, Streetart, Sculpture and More by Brusk   

As a graduate of the Fine Arts School of St. Etienne, Brusk is capable of painting and drawing everything. He takes advantage of his formative years to school himself in numerous artistic disciplines, easily switching from graphic design to light graffiti, sculpture, installations and the direction of stop motion films.  via 

Find more of Brusk’s work on our previous posts and on Instagram. 

anoptic’s inscrutable machines

anoptic creates geometric gifs that are beautiful but at the same time feel old fashioned, like something Tesla would have created if he had a computer in 1900.  While anoptic prefers to remain anonymous, he or she did make an interesting comment about animated gifs:  “The art of the gif is in the loop. The single idea repeated over and over - both unending and unchanging at the same time. A glimpse at processes normally invisible, like peering into the workings of the inscrutable machine. Done well, it’s mesmerizing.”  Exactly.