Lorenzo Durantini embraces old hardware and uses it to create impressive pieces of art. His works 2,216 VHS Tapes and 445,368 meters use old VHS and audio tapes to build towers, flood rooms with meters of tape or simply make a comment on the fast pace of the digital era we live in. In other words, he simply turns what
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Entropy is disorder; entropy is randomness; entropy is what’s lost in translation; entropy is the inevitable and constant deterioration of society. Reflection of the latter can be found in SUPERM‘s collaborative portfolio called Entropy Parade. Slava Moguitn and Brian Kenny created the series of distorted images / multilayer drawings for the 13th anniversary issue of FLAUNT magazine. After I got
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My friend and partner in crime, Nadja Sayej, has been rightfully chosen to be one of the judges of Year In Review – an open call for the year’s most compelling art, photography and design. While everyone can submit work on their website, here is a hint from the art critic powerhouse herself – ArtStars* cheat sheet and shortcut to
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Hello Grateful Grapefruits! Let’s usher in the new year with an exciting announcement that my friend and artist Jack Early’s “What to Do with a Drunken Sailor?” is getting an extended run at Forever & Today gallery in NYC! This is Early’s first foray into pocket sized art with his own performance of “It Don’t Rain in Beverly Hills”, a song
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Say hello to the work of Brooklyn artist Anthony (Tony) Cudahy. Lately I’ve been extremely impressed by the amazing illustration pouring out of artist’s Tumblrs. I met Anthony online through him asking me what I thought of 2010’s NY Art Book Fair. After that, I was smitten by his works and have seen him grow since then. He represents just
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(So here I am, another Grateful Grapefruit poster. I’m Peter and I hail originally from Burlington, Vermont, but I study New Media outside of NYC at SUNY Purchase. Expect posts from me regarding local NYC artists, happenings, and other things.) This past week I attended a very interesting new media art show at Chelsea gallery Postmasters on the corner of
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I don’t really like Christmas. having said that, I know I just lost half of your attention but let me clarify that and defend my thesis. Actually, in my defense I have one question: Is the end of the world coming? I guess I am not the only holiday pessimist. I guess, some of the winter wonderland occupants put more
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Jason Peters has a way of making you reconsider reality and space. Mr. Peters studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art and acquires his BA in Fine Arts in Sculpture and a Minor in Asian Art History. Since then he has 11 solo shows (last one Reversed Polarities in 2011) and is part of an average of 2-3 group
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Jaakko Pallasvuo is maybe the first artist who I am featuring, who is the exact same age as me. Born in 1987 in Helsinki, Finnland, Jaakko is a digital native, just like everyone born after 1982 in developed countries is considered to be one. As such, he has based his work on net art and fully embraces new media as
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You know that we at Grateful Grapefruit easily get excited by facial hair. We on the other side know that right now the whole fashion and style world is going bananas over beards. And they know it works. If it didn’t, I wouldn’t write up this post presenting interpretations on facial hair. To promote their partnership with Braun, WAD Magazine created this
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Mike Reedy’s art makes me uncomfortable. Big time. In his drawings and paintings he addresses issues of privacy, intimacy and exposure which are over-occupying my thoughts recently. Looking at his works isn’t really helping me get my mind off those topics but definitely gives me a way to try to resolve them. Mr. Reedy got his Master of Fine Arts in Painting
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If you’ve landed on Grateful Grapefruit, I assume you have heard the name or seen the work of visual agent provocateur Erwin Olaf on multiple occasions. Having made that clear, we can move to the actual part of this post that doesn’t require many words. I have a very close connection to Mr. Olaf’s art since my childhood. You can
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