Art MoCo: Mixed Media Archives

Mixed Media

Mixed Media | May 12, 2008

Miranda Donovan’s art is a mix of urban street art, painting and sculpture. Her current exhibition, Lost World of Innocence, features three-dimensional pieces of painting and graffiti on layers of brickwork made up of cement, plaster, sand and paint. Donovan focuses on techniques used by street artists, as well as their outlooks and points of view. Her use of street signs and other identifiers such as telephone booths provides a recognizable connection to the urban landscape, forcing the viewer to take a more realistic view of the surroundings.

Artist: Miranda Donovan
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"Metá Mattino 15"
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Mixed Media | May 9, 2008

We came across Erika Calesini’s work, which can be described as sculpture on canvas, at the Milano Bedding stand at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, great big canvases with smashed bicycles amidst many sofas and beds. An upturned bicycle, a mishmash of parts, was actually a lamp, and Teresa’s groceries protruded from the basket of another bike. All mauve, white and grey, but Calesini’s bicycle series covers many more colours on the spectrum.

Artist: Erika Calesini
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"Ole Brick Wall and Br'er Briar Bush"
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Mixed Media | Feb 21, 2008

The quirk factor is high in Matthew Rodriguez’s mixed media works, a blend of street art and craftwork. Rodriguez uses a wide range of ingredients for his collages that are usually peopled with characters that may be hard to recognize but are at the same time endearing. Doll house bricks, feathers, bits of artificial Christmas tree, fake fur, fish tackle eyes and Styrofoam are just a few components of his work. One of our favorite pieces (not shown here, unfortunately) is the charmingly titled Gimme Yo Sweatpants, Acrylic on baking pan.

Artist: Matthew Rodriguez
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"The Study"
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Mixed Media | Feb 5, 2008

Mid-century modernist architecture as seen by Lucy Williams results in mixed media works of art that combine a crafting style with a sleek topic. Williams creates low-relief forms of homes, commercial establishments and public buildings with materials such as Perspex, fabric, thread, pillow stuffing and card. The Study, above, is based on a case study house in L.A. by Craig Ellwood, whereas Hans Blumenthal is the picture of a Bauhaus home nestled among the trees. The Lighting Showroom takes its inspiration from a lighting store in Milan.

Artist: Lucy Williams
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"Let's Take Care of the Cat"
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Mixed Media | Feb 1, 2008

Argentine artist Claudio Roncoli’s mixed-media paintings are a combination of vintage advertising, traditional religious symbolism, propaganda, digital technology and artistic licence that serves as commentary on the global consumer culture. Roncoli’s own background as a child growing up in his dad’s toy store before teenage years in a seminary is a logical base from where to deal with ideas both secular and sacred. Roncoli’s upcoming solo show, The Great Pretender, is a salute to the tug between innocence and ignorance, and delight and excess, “the dreams that money can buy”.

Artist: Claudio Roncoli
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"Makeover Mandala"
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Mixed Media | Jan 25, 2008

Virginia Fleck takes consumerism and creates wall-sized mandalas out of it, by way of used plastic bags. Shopping is spiritual. We worship at the altar of symbols, brands and logos. By making repetitive patterns out of this tangible excess of material, Fleck numbs the viewer much the way the insatiable need for more is at work. In a world where abundance does not equal enough, but ever more, we keep filling the bags.

Artist: Virginia Fleck
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"Blue Clutch"
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Mixed Media | Jan 16, 2008

Samantha Hahn is a NY-based illustrator who combines digital illustration with photography, ink and watercolour to produce the most feminine eye candy going. Despite these featured pieces being promotional work for a line of handbags and jewellery, they work beautifully as stand-alone artwork, especially on particularly girlie days. Who would have guessed that a blue clutch could work as an outdoor still life? Or that real jewellery could turn into candy? All we know is that we better start searching birds’ nests for earrings. Or, if all birds’ nests looked like Hahn’s, we’d go for the nest over the earrings.

Artist: Samantha Hahn
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"Rise Up"
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Mixed Media | Nov 30, 2007

Hillevi Baar does beautiful illustrations on Mylar, but also uses this base for some of her sculptural cutting, which is sometimes incorporated into a mix of inks and graphite. The details on these pieces are exquisite; seemingly disparate elements combine to form a composition that borders on the surreal if it doesn’t plunge right in. The white space that surrounds the illustrations or the cut-out work is equally effective, helping the viewer to focus on what is there, as well as what is not.

Artist: Hillevi Baar
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"The Orchard at Night"
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Mixed Media | Nov 12, 2007

Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin are known for the bleak snow globes that house underdressed travelers trapped within. These travelers are stuck in scenes that leave us wondering how they got there and what will become of them. We wonder how long their wits and resources will hold out as they are faced with extreme weather conditions and loneliness. At the time, the setting cannot help but lend a mystical quality to the proceedings, so a sort of surrealism settles over the scenes.

Artist: Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin
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"124"
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Mixed Media | Sep 27, 2007

Reed Danziger’s mixed media paintings incorporate layers of swirls, swoops and spots that merge to form a variety of patterns that blend fairly gently into a whole. Danziger’s tones are soft, but the areas of subtle colour are in contrast with bolder pockets. The viewer is compelled to go right into the painting and explore carefully, going from one area to the next. Danziger’s more recent works display a more abstract and free-flowing touch, an evolution from the flowerlike forms that we may have seen previously.

Artist: Reed Danziger
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"Untitled Silver 4"
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Mixed Media | Sep 21, 2007

Caitlin Masley’s recent series of drawings in ink, acrylic and graphite can be seen as detailed abstractions or perhaps as detailed maps where each and every building has been carefully accounted for, at least in spirit. The blank spaces are the waterways, all with such jagged shorelines, built up to the very edge, and the tiny spaces in between the greys and black the linking passageways. Some of these works are quite sizeable and one cannot help but wonder what thoughts flowed through the artist’s mind as she toiled.

Artist: Caitlin Masley
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