Dzine

by Marco Gutierrez March 12, 2012

   Chicago-based artist Dzine has developed a unique practice creating work that contextualizes these diverse elements to develop his own language. The work addresses these issues through a lens of spirituality, beauty, desire, faith, folklore, and identity. Incorporating the ideals of craft making, appropriation and the baroque, the end result is mixture of sculpture, paintings, and installation. The juxtaposition and combination of the studio paintings, the appropriated and original kustom kulture sculptures result in hybrid artifacts that are beautifully crafted, aggressive, thoughtful, sexual, and strangely seamless. The artist seeks to change the rules concerning the final image by illuminating how.. Read More »

TOTEM II

by Marco Gutierrez December 20, 2011

   Currently on display at New York’s Ace Hotel, photographer Matt Black sites his exhibit “Something Black” as “an excursion into the bloodstream of American Iconography; a personal subjective vision through the paragons of desire, violence, cities and landscapes. Here, Black breaks down some of the images on display."I like injecting a cinematic mood in all my work". Another modern totem, another character. A kiss of death or a kiss of the life? The adrenaline rush of living dangerously.”   Read More »

Chest Shirt (Mature Audience)

by Eric Moore November 13, 2011

     Interesting. This Interesting shirt can be purchased at http://violettenewyork.com/ Read More »

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