Jon Rafman Covers Digital Spaces in Renowned Contemporary Artworks

Canadian multimedia artist Jon Rafman often explores the boundaries between our real lives and our virtual lives. Working primarily in digital media, his works illustrate a modern sense of reality through humour and irony. He is perhaps best known for exhibiting found images from Google Street View, titled “9-Eyes”. In his ongoing series “Brand New Paint Job”, Rafman re-appropriates famous paintings by contemporary artists into the 3D digital realm. Each image features a ready made interior completely covered in works of art by masters Henri Rousseau, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and Roy Lichtenstein, just to name a few. Wrapping around furniture and objects at just the right angle, Rafman uses optical illusion to play with depth and add emphasis to ordinary spaces. His work is currently on view at MAC Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM), his first museum exhibition in Canada, through September 13th.

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digital art, interior design, Jon Rafman, Monet, Picasso

Debbie Han, digital art, Greek Sculpture, Neoclassicism, Photography

June 1, 2015

Korean-American multimedia artist Debbie Han tackles the standard of beauty in her photographs of Neoclassical women. Using photographic manipulation, she combines Greek sculpture with her own subjects to make this parallel. The resulting images bring to life familiar figures to any museum-goer, but bubbling with their own personalities and a special bond, like close girlfriends. Han's work not only makes us think twice about the perception of beauty, but also explores issues of race, culture and identity.

Jon Jacobsen’s Hallucinatory Digital Portraits

digital art, gif, Jon Jacobsen, Photography

June 2, 2014

Self-taught photographer Jon Jacobsen creates portraits that feel like the stuff of beautiful nightmares. In fact, he operates on the idea that reality and fantasy might not be so far from each other as we think. His portraits and self-portraits reflect the fragility of human nature and many works echo the symbolic language and dark beauty of memento mori pieces. The colorful, swirling lines that emanate from his subjects seem to hint at another person or personality. What could look like a placid, somewhat Classical portrait becomes disturbing and distorted. It's hard to tell whether the subjects are rotting away or actually transforming into their true shape.

The Flamboyant Digital Work of Kota Yamaji

digital art, illustration, Kota Yamaji

January 17, 2018

The flamboyant, eye-popping works of digital artist Kota Yamaji carry touches of psychedelia and surrealism. Using both stills and motion work, his pieces blend textures and patterns to absorbing effect. The Tokyo-based artist has also created music videos for tilt-six and INNOCENT in FORMAL.

Chris Labrooy’s Fantasy Vehicles in “Tales of Auto Elasticity”

Chris Labrooy, digital art, graphic design

November 19, 2014

UK graphic designer and artist Chris Labrooy riffs on custom car culture in his latest digital illustration series, "Tales of Auto Elasticity." A follow-up to last year's "Auto Aerobics," in which Labrooy placed his bendy, sculptural low riders in a city park, "Tales of Auto Elasticity" shows pick-up trucks with yogic flexibility bending to extreme degrees in a rural parking lot. Though Labrooy's work exists only on the computer screen, it evokes sculptures like Erwin Wurm's pudgy sports cars (featured in HF Vol. 22) and Ichwan Noor's Beetle sphere (covered here). Perhaps Labrooy should consider sculpture as his next step.

Jon Rafman Covers Digital Spaces in Renowned Contemporary Artworks

Debbie Han’s Photographs Bring Neoclassical Beauties to Life

Jon Jacobsen’s Hallucinatory Digital Portraits

The Flamboyant Digital Work of Kota Yamaji

Chris Labrooy’s Fantasy Vehicles in “Tales of Auto Elasticity”

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