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Judging from these meticulously crafted mixed media works, Amy Eisenfeld Genser is one patient lady. For each piece, the Connecticut-based artist rolls up colored paper into hundreds of tubes, then adheres them to painted canvases. The results are stunning, polychromatic pieces of art that resemble undersea reefs. In fact, the natural environment inspires all of Gensler's work. As......read more
Psychedelic formations of rolled up paper are the beautiful result of artist Amy Eisenfeld Genser's obsession with paper and color. My Modern Met profiled Amy's work and we're glad they did. Although her final work appears quite abstract, Genser always starts out with an idea for a piece by using images and sketches and also drawing upon the beautiful imperfections of nature as......read more
Amy Casey's most recent crop of paintings are noticeably devoid of people and creatures, but there are plenty of signs of life. Her depictions of houses and factories resting precariously on stilts, or connected in mid-air by a tangled mess of cables, offer an anthropomorhpic interpretation of city buildings. Amy has conjured a fantasy urban landscape where the humans have left and the buildings......read more
Wornska, a Polish artist, who is an architect by trade, picked up a passion for drawing and painting in her first two years of school. She never received any additional training, making her meticulous hand that much more impressive. You can buy prints and canvass of Maja's work at My Modern Shop....read more
Multi-talented musician Scott Reitherman, who recorded two critically acclaimed albums as Throw Me the Statue back in 2008 and 2009, is back with a new album and a new name, Pillar Point. The synth-drenched single "Dreamin'" got the video treatment courtesy of Brooklyn production house Wild Cominbation and it's, well, dreamy. Shot in slo-mo, the clip features dancer Daisuke Omiya grooving through......read more
Dreamy and delicate, Jessica Silversaga's work invites you into a world of nostalgia and dress up often placed in nature. When she's not shooting weddings and fashion assignments, she's finding old dresses, peonies, girls with freckles, and thins from the 1920's through the 1940's, the periods she's drawn to. Via Ignant...read more
Richard Gaston, a 23 year-old photographer from Glasgow, Scotland, will awaken your inner wanderlust with these evocative images shot on adventures in the Scottish Highlands and on the coast. Shooting on a Canon AE-1 and a Yashica T4, Richard documents his travels in the great outdoors where he captures stunning shots of lakes, mountains and time spent with friends. "The majority of my work is......read more
Perennial SHFT favorites LAMAR+NIK have released yet another great video, this time for "Recollection," the lead single from Keep Shelly In Athens' debut LP, At Home. The clip takes place in an abandoned high school, where a middle-aged women wanders through the decrepit space, searching for something that's long-gone. A (real!) bubble stars in the video as well, playing an elusive metaphor for......read more
Imagination plus sense of space gives JeeYoung Lee's photographs their magical quality. Once again, this series has zero post-image manipulation. Working like a set designer, Lee creates these incredible situations for real. JeeYoung Lee creates highly elaborate scenes that require an incredible amount of patience and absolutely no photo manipulation. For weeks and sometimes......read more
When Finland's Joni Niemela goes to work, he heads directly the Great Outdoors, where he gets down to the business of capturing the natural world on camera. For Joni, nature is both subject and muse, whether he's shooting sweeping natural landscapes or hyper-detailed, macro images of flora and fauna. The title of one of his recent series, Misty and Atmospheric,......read more
