Ashley Hope was born in Montreal, Canada, 1976; lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Houston, TX. Hope’s paintings are not to be taken lightly. Her specific choice of subject matter is the focus of her work. She paints (and draws) tableaus based on crime scene photographs of murdered women, exclusively. The image shown above, [...]
LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess from The Netherlands described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a [...]
Stylized erotic portraits by Aeric Meredith-Goujon (born 1969 brooklyn, New York). Aeric Meredith-Goujon’s photographs are certainly divine and sexual, but there’s also something painterly about the images. Perhaps it has to do with the gradations in color, the depths of expressions, or the fact that the subjects — many of who commissioned the work for [...]
Vanessa Beecroft (Genoa, Italy, 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist living in Los Angeles. Beecroft’s work is a fusion of conceptual issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance art, usually involving live female models (often nude). At her performances, video recordings and photographs are made, to be exhibited as documentation of the performances, but [...]
Heterotopia is a meditation on the nature of translation and the failures that attend its efforts. The work transpires in two obscure topographies of unarticulated desire. One, a raucous and supernatural oratorio, which is performed in incomprehensible yet intelligible languages, serves as a complementary orchestra to the other, a strange assembly of listening creatures, whose [...]
Dita Von Teese keeps it classy at the Christian Dior fashion show during Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2009. The 36-year-old lingerie lover is well-known for her burlesque dance routines, and over the weekend Dita Von Teese was spotted prepping up for a racy show at Paris, France’s Crazy Horse.
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