Derek Albeck

Happy Artist. 2009. graphite and gouache on paper. 11" x 8.5"

Terror Terror on the wall, who's the happiest of them all. 2009. colored pencil and graphite on paper mounted to mirror. 26" x 21"

Heather. 2009. graphite and gouache on paper. 11" x 8.5"

Terror Terror on the wall, who's the saddest of them all. 2009. colored pencil and graphite on paper mounted to mirror. 26" x 21"

Sad Murderer. 2009. graphite and gouache on paper. 11" x 8.5"

Meet DEREK ALBECK, an amazing artist living and working in LA. His work has been exhibited in the U.S, Canada and the U.K. One advice: browse his portfolio! Nice.

Soldout. The Cut

Allez, it's time for a short break! a musical break? Yeah, gooooood idea and why not with SOLDOUT?...coooooool!

The Cut has been directed by ROMAIN CHASSAING and BORIS COYERE. Produced by SoLab and First Hour, it was carried out for the Belgian group, within the framework of their second album.

If you are happy, then me too:-)

Stacy J Lee

RE(-)CREATION

STACY J LEE is a young designer who created this collection of fantastic knit accessories entitled, RE(-)CREATION. All of the pieces are one-of-a-kind and were reconstructed from damaged and left-over samples that were donated by local New York fashion companies. What was once considered useless has undergone mass deconstruction and has been fully-restored into something beautiful and functional. Stacy Lee's collection also exhibits a strong theme of multi-wearabilty, as many of the pieces can be worn in more than one way.

GREAT! See more of her collection here.

found via http://www.tailoredsociety.com/

Valeria Cherchi

VALERIA CHERCHI is based in Rome where she is studying Industrial Design specializing in Multimedia Communication. Photography is her passion and obsession, and WFW loves that!

Bryan Derballa

The Orphans: they represent a growing subculture of people obsessed with reviving rusted mopeds and taking them to the streets.

As you know, I love my bicycle (altough I'm not a very good driver...mmmhhh no comment) and this series -by BRYAN DERBALLA about The Orphans, a Brooklyn's moped gang- makes me want to have a moped...

and to be in a moped gang ;-)

BRYAN DERBALLA is a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer interested in adventure. Yeah!

Berlin East Side Gallery

The East Side Gallery is the longest preserved stretch of the former Berlin Wall.
It is the largest open-air gallery in the world with 106 original mural paintings on 1.3 km-long created by artists from all over the world after the collapse of East Germany. Today, it is being renovated for the Commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the "Fall of the Wall"

This morning, I have pieces of Berlin stuck in my teeth :-)

E.N.J.O.Y

Abigail Reynolds

British artist ABIGAIL REYNOLDS creates series of collages that combines old photos, maps and other curiosities to make abstract imagery.

In the process of splicing and joining the images, cuts are made into the printed surface and the paper is folded and pushed upwards and outwards, creating a three dimensional object, a grid-like construction that changes and moves with your perspective.

And this is really interesting!

found via http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/

Pablo González-Trejo

JFK. 77 x 51 inches. 195 x 130 cm. 2009. Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas

Joseph Stalin. 70 x 62 inches. 178 x 157 cm. 2009. Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas

Marilyn Monroe. 77 x 51 inches. 195 x 130 cm. 2009. Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas

Sophie (before). 39 x 31 inches. 100 x 80 cm. 2008. Charcoal and Acrylic on Canvas

Sophie (after). 39 x 31 inches. 100 x 80 cm. 2008. Charcoal and Acrylic on Canvas

PABLO GONZÁLEZ-TREJO is a contemporary artist born in Cuba living and working in between Miami and Paris.

He currently develops his Defacing Art Project. Its idea is to change the past to have another future, which will become our present. For his project, he uses pictures of dictators and presidents or also friends of him who are invited to confront their portraits and erase them with white paint ( last year for the exhibition Portraits d'Amis at Gallery Jeune Création in Paris)

If what we are is based on the experiences we have lived, and the memories of these experiences mutate with time, then we are no more than just a metaphor of ourselves.- by PABLO GONZÁLEZ-TREJO

La bonne nouvelle? you can attend a Defacing performance on November 4th at 7:30 pm at LE104CENTQUATRE in Paris and the exhibition runs to the 8th November, 2009...SHARE + ENJOY!

Feng ZhengJie

Chinese Portrait No. 2 of 2003. 2003. oil on canvas. 91 x 91 cm

Chinese Portrait No. 28 of 2004. 2004. oil on canvas. 91 x 91 cm

Chinese Portrait No. 2 of 2006. 2006. oil on canvas. 30 x 40 cm

KoreanPortrait No. 2. 2008. oil on canvas. 149.9 x 149.9 cm

Marilyn No. 1 of 2005. 2008. Silkscreen print. 80 x 80 cm

The women painted by FENG ZHENGJIE are pop idols, glamorous faces from a futuristic pop world.

All artists who have studied painting in China’s art academies, like FENG ZHENGJIE did, have an excellent training in realism, but FENG rejected social realism and Western academic art and was influenced, instead, by the billboard images he saw when he was growing up in rural China. Developing as an artist during the turbulent years, when China’s economy was changing and the country was opening up to the outside world, FENG ZHENGJIE made use of the access he had to Pop culture and the imagery associated with it and developed a manner of painting that includes a critique of the growth of consumer culture in modern China.

The full frontal faces of FENG’s women are scaled up to huge proportions. They are idealised as young and beautiful, but their luscious faces contain a strange far away look in their eyes that introduces a weird, enigmatic, quality to their pictorial presence and exudes commodified desire. This has been interpreted as an expression of the divide that exists between the inner life of the individual and the outer face that is turned to the world. The eyes of his portraits evoke a condition of vacuity. The women’s beauty is undermined by an apparent separation from reality into an artificial world. -by Artchina Gallery

FENG ZHENGJIE (born 1968, Sichuan Province, China) is an artist based in Beijing.

Demetrius May

The paintings of DEMETRIUS MAY is just what I need today: odd mixture of nostalgia and pop culture + bright colors.

DEMETRIUS MAY lives and works in LA, United States.

found via http://kitsunenoir.com

Jtnimoy

The color of art is #A79F94

JOSHUA T. NIMOY aka JTNIMOY is an artist, designer, technologist and typographer. And he has the strange but good idea to calculate the average color from more than 26'000 images in the MoMa art collection.

The result was this brownish gray which is one of my favorite color. Nice.

Kerstin Zu Pan

series: supervision

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series: Milky Way

Beauty in unusual circumstances comes easily to the camera of KERSTIN ZU PAN, one of Berlin's most original photographers. Her photos are moments amid stories - playful wild stories that leave the reviewer guessing. Her work is expressive, ebulliant, and strange. There is always more here than is apparent at first glance."- by CLAYTON MAXWELL, Eyemazing 3/2007

Oh wait a minute, you can buy her artworks online at http://www.wantedparis.com (testé et approuvé by WFW)

enjoy!