There is a new U2 video for the song "Ill Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" by two of my favorite artists/animators, David ORielly and our good friend Jon Klassen. Its an interesting fusion of the two styles. Jon's color and 2-D sense coupled with David's graphic 3-D sense.

See more of Jon's stuff here:

http://gallerynucleus.com/artist/jon_klassen
http://www.burstofbeaden.com/

See more of David's stuff here:

http://www.davidoreilly.com/

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Within the last few years, public/private universities have sought new ways to highlight their facilities, prestigious faculty and academic programs over the internet.  For this reason we have seen a spike in schools using methods such as blogging to more recently, implementing the video and audio outlets like YouTube or Podcasts.  

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Yuta Onoda is an artist originally from Japan who holds a Bachelors in Applied Arts in Illustration from Sheridan College in Canada.  His illustration work is largely mixed media and digital.  Much of Onoda's art bares similarities to his peers such as Tessar Lo and James Jean; yet while comparisons can be drawn, Onoda's focuses on more psychedelic and surreal themes.  I enjoy also Onoda's conventional skill as a graphic designer for his color palette feels to be highly selective.  Further differences between other illustrators in the field and Onoda appear in that Onoda's subjects which feel less narrative and a bit more contemplative.  Many of his paintings are very impressively realized, at times even more carefully rendered and complexly layered than his digital work.  Yuta Onoda will certainly be an up and coming illustrator and I look forward to seeing more of his work surface in the next few years.  

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It's been over a year since we've had the Nature of Water Show exhibiting works related to Bruce Lee, but we still think about it in passing.  In Hong Kong, a new museum is going to be dedicated to the icon.  The Associated Press reports that they will be holding architecture design competition for the new building.  Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee, a panel of architects and city planners will be judging the design as well.  We over here at Nucleus are happy that the career, life and philosophies of Lee will finally find a home.  Perhaps we'll see a few works from the Nature of Water show at the museum.

More Info At NYTimes

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Although Veronique Meignaud describes herself as a freelance concept illustrator with extensive work in character and environment design for the video game industry, looking at her collection of work it is apparent that she is not limited to just one genre.
On exhibit, we have examples of her peculiar, illustrated sketchbook drawings.  These works are streams of her subconsciousness onto the page.  Creatures, humans  and their environment distort, and morph together becoming abstract yet insinuate a terrifying and bizarre world. 

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Salzwedel's delicate and subtle landscapes reflect the friction between urban development and nature. Even his medium of choice is a statement of this clash, despite being a natural product (resin is the hydrocarbon secretion from plant), the actual hand layering process is considered very toxic and even dangerous to inhale or touch. With this painstaking rocess, Salzwedel is able to accomplish incredibly ethereal artworks with overwhelming depth. 

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The contradictions and paradoxes of Lo's personality and past are what allow him to create his works that deal often with human concepts, dreams, and relationships. On one hand he is an Indonesian-born artist that produces "Asian aesthetic" works. On the other, he is a North American artist raised and taught in Canada and inspired by Gauguin.  
Better yet, on another level, he is considered one of the gallery circuit's new "It" boys with already more than 30 shows attributed to him, three of them: solo. Still yet again, on the other side of that same level, he is still a very young artist who not that long ago was just an art student at Sheridan's School of Animation, Art, and Design.
Continuously evolving as an artist, it's the lack of clarity and the unknown that excites him. Metaphorically and literally, this mystery appears in paintings with haunting figures floating against empty space.  

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Chigi's intricate drawings, accomplished with only a red ballpoint pen, demonstrates her inherent ability of connecting different elements with pattern and flow. Nymph-like beings entwine with organic elements and they become untied, get twisted round then become one again - as it is with cycle of the natural world. Drawing for her is a meditation, and in its' process she can find answers to the millions of things going through her mind. We are ultimately inspired that such a simple and humble tool can create such a delicate and striking aesthetic.

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Tiffany Bozic has spent the majority of her life living with and observing the intricacies of nature. Blending her external observations with the internal world has led her to refine a distinct style in which richly pigmented acrylic paint reference real anatomies against solid maple wood panels. Though inspired by John James Audubon and Ernst Haeckel, her work dives more deeply into the imaginary and darker aspects of the natural world. Bozic views the making of art as a kind of therapeutic process - a way to make sense of the world, of her relationship to life as it unfolds, of its power over us, and perhaps most importantly, of our power over it.

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Jen-Hui Liao is a graduate student at the Royal College of Art in England.  At their annual graduate student exhibition, Liao unveiled his brilliant project: a drawing machine that takes the users physical hands to produce a self-portrait.  To explain it in rudimentary terms, the computer analyzes the image of the user from a camera and directs their hands to specific directions--the end result being an image of the user's likeness.  It is rather difficult to translate exactly what this drawing machine does in its entirety so please watch the video clip of it below.  I must say, the product of these drawings are rather stunning.  Works of this nature bring about interesting questions of self-fabrication and of identity and autonomy in art making.  

  

http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=504922&CategoryID=36646 

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