Two Crowd-Sourced Contests

Complete an Iron Man comic or help Shepard Fairey liven up LA schools

One surefire way to inject some inspiration into a project is by opening up the objective to the world at large. We were pleased to see crowd-sourcing contests by two very different artistic enterprises—Marvel Comics and Shepard Fairey for the LA Fund—tasking illustrators and students to get in on the action. Whether it’s determining the fate of an action hero or livening up the streets …

XChange by Nick Gentry

Obsolete disks and discarded negatives make for startling portraits at Robert Fontaine Gallery

“When you walk into a gallery, there’s a very sterile gap between you and the artwork. I want to close that gap—that’s my main mission as an artist,” says Nick Gentry. This weekend at Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami’s Wynwood District, Gentry hopes that a series of works comprised of fan-sourced floppy disks and film negatives will do just that. A painter by training, Gentry …

Fantasy Worlds at Art Paris Art Fair 2013

Fantasy worlds, enchanted forests and modern not-so-fairy tales

While making the rounds at this year’s Art Paris Art Fair, we witnessed a host of identity-obscuring portraits, and continued to encounter illusions with several examples of distorted fantasy worlds. Inspired and mysterious, the following works drew us in closer for an enchanting thrill. Antoine Schneck Antoine Schneck‘s negative photo of an ancient, knotted olive tree printed on the black plexiglass wall of the Galerie …