Heads and Portraits
Different styles and techniques, same artist
Salman Khoshroo
(Source: veryprivateart.com)
Different styles and techniques, same artist
Salman Khoshroo
(Source: veryprivateart.com)
“I want my work to be aesthetically pleasing,” (…) “I want to bring joy to an American society that’s founded on white supremacy, and so everywhere you go there’s nothing for you. I want these sculptures to be a place where we can find joy.”
(Source: veryprivateart.com)
“I mostly see the world as a pretty good place. I guess that’s what I want to come though my work—something life affirming or some sense of well being, some optimism, some hope—even though I load it with portents of mortality and so forth.“
(Source: veryprivateart.com)
Urban Meme Art by LUSHSUX
“I just decided this year to stop doing artwork that only appealed to one set of people. Instead, try and find things that everyone has an opinion on and then take the piss out of it. It’s working; normies are easy to manipulate.”
- Lushsux
(Source: veryprivateart.com)
Embroidery and transfer on fabric
“I felt the necessity of working from my body and according to what I was feeling.”
Early work (2006 -2008)
(Source: veryprivateart.com)
So I noticed this was second place in a contest.
So I looked up first place:
This is "Light Me Up" by Lindsey Berres. Closeups here.
Here is the (partial?) gallery of entrants on the QuiltCon website, but the image files are so large that I literally can't load them so have a selection of much lower quality screengrabs from this video tour instead...
"Neural Overlap" by Jane Eileen García (3rd place)
"Surfacing" by Tara Glastonbury
"Dot Your Eyes" by Nora Bauser
"Risograph Rings" by Colleen Kesterson
"Benched" by Linda Hungerford
"Windmill Meadows" by Lynett Muhaso
"Starman" by Lorena Uriarte
"Triple Silk Transluscence" by Cassandra Beaver
"Who Invited Cyan?" by Samantha Saturday
"Star Crossed" by Karin Rabe
"Contintuity of Radiance" by Svetlana Silver
"Mod Layers" by Anthea Naylor
"Dialectic No. 4" by Heather Akerberg
"Perfect Pansies" by Holly Clarke
"Still Life #1" by Barbara Strick
"Circle of Friends" by Erin Case
"Orange Peel Overlay" by Stephanie Bracelyn""Orange Peel Overlay" by Stephanie Bracelyn
"Spotlight" by Amy Friend
"Blobs" by Lucie Belanger
"Sunshine Amidst Rain" by Sarah Wigton
"Cellophane Squares" by Sharon Thomson
"Evolution of Man" by Carrie Stout