Marnie Weber

This post wasn’t supposed to happen if I haven’t found this wonderful artist in a DrollGirl blog. Marnie Weber and her art works totally captured my mind. This is what i call LOVE FROM THE FIRST SIGHT. Dark, gloomy, mysterious, macabre, radiant pieces of art. You can think on their meaning, you can just enjoy them.
I’ve never heard of this contemporary artist before. And i must have missed something special. Marnie Weber (born 1959) lives and works in LA. Her work includes photography, collage, sculpture, costume, installations, film, video,  performances and music. She performed and recorded with such bands as “The Party Boys” (as a bass player) and “The Perfect Me”. Marnie released two solo albums, Woman with Bass, 1994 and Cry for Happy, 1996, both recorded as “Marnie”. Her work is also featured on the cover of the 1998 Sonic Youth album “A Thousand Leaves”.

SPECIAL INFORMATION:

• Much of Weber’s visual art revolves around a recurring cast of characters. An animal often found in her work is the bear, which is linked to the Greek goddess Artemis. These characters, among others, are placed in “vividly colorful environment[s]”,ornate, Empire style interiors or dark, dense, eerie landscapes. Her work most often focuses on the adventures of women, which sometimes take the form of half-human, half-animal hybrids with bodies cut from pornographic magazines, and other times, pale-faced, folksy ghosts known as “Spirit Girls”

• The Spirit Girls is the name of Marnie Weber’s alt-rock musical group and also refers to a group of characters that are found in her art. “[They] are the specters of five adolescents, killed in their prime, who come back to the real world to ‘express things they weren’t able to express’ while they were alive.”

 Here are some of her MAGIC works

The next few pictures are from “The Campfire Song” video

For more visit Marnie Weber Official Web-Site

Caitlin Kuhwald

Nicoletta Ceccoli “Incubi Celesti”

by Nicoletta Ceccoli

Nagi Noda Hair-Design

Nagi Noda is a famous japanese pop-artist, director and designer. She worked on various music videos (with such artists as Tiga, Scissor Sisters and Yuki), ad campaigns, TV commersials and many other creative work. She’s also famous for creating a brand called “BROKEN label” collaborating with a famous american fine arts painter Mark Ryden. I was completely impressed by her hair-hats which i’d like to introduce to my dear readers.

Marion Peck

“Laviathan”

 Evil Snowman

Kittens

Pussy

Jane Fonda Bird

“The Beach is Covered with Dead and Dying Whales”

Mark Ryden: Part II

When i look at Mark Rydens works i fall into some kind of a rabbit hole, dragged by my disquieted imagination. Sinking in the world on the other side of the canvas i see misty landscapes, beautiful wide-eyed creatures that hides a horrible secrets deep inside of their fathomless eyes, slabs of meat, cuddly plush pets, alchemical symbols, religeous emblems, frankinsteined Abraham Lincoln, pop culture heroes, a few famous people, skulls and many other not less macabre things. Even not trying to explain myself what all those symbolism imply my mind starts reading the subconscious meaning of his painings. And i can’t get them out of my head. Never.
“Viewers are initially drawn in by the comforting beauty of Ryden’s pop-culture references, then challenged by their circumstances, and finally transported to the artist’s final intent – a world where creatures speak from a place of childlike honesty about the state of mankind and our relationships with ourselves, each other and our past.” – from M.Ryden’s site bio
The Artist was born in 1963 in Medford, Oregon, but later he moved in Southern California where he studied illustration and graduated from the Art Center Collage of Design of Pasadena in 1987. He first showed his works at the “Side Show” exhibition in 1994 held at the Tamara Bone Gallery, Los Angeles, California. And later in 1998 he exhibited his first solo debut show “The Meat Show” in Pasadena. His talant and craftsmanship have catapulted Ryden beyond his roots and to the attention of museums, critics and serious collectors. Ryden’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including a recent museum retrospective “Wondertoonel” at the Frye Museum of Art in Seattle and Pasadena Museum of California Art. His “The Tree Show” exhibit in March 2007 at the Michael Kohn Gallery in LA featured oil paintings and sculptures. The largest one named “The Tree Of Life” sold for 800 000 usd before the exhibit opened! My favourite exhibition was held at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokio, it’s called “The Snow Yak Show”. Also Mark Ryden painted  the guitar for Kirk Hammet of Metallica and designed album art for such artists as Michael Jackson, Ringo Star, Jack of Jill, Scarling, Screaming Trees and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Now he lives and works in Eagle Rock, Ca in the studio shared with his wife, artist Marion Peck and their two children.
I also heard that he has collaborated with Japanese designer/director/artist Nagi Noda on a fashion line called “Broken Label”. The clothes are mostly about strange serious-killer chic prints and ad campaign is styled in Ryden’s paintings manner. Sounds intriguing. Well, there is a weird story about this collaboration spread in the internet – it’s told that right after working with Ryden Nagi Noda died (last September) at the age of 35! Creepy… She is said to have died wearing her Mark Ryden dress, Chanel boots, and “perfect make-up with Viktor & Rolf lace black eye lashes.” Guess this is how the extraordinary people pass away..making their last gesture the more artsy that most of human beings can ever imagine.

This is the ad campaign of BROKEN LABEL:

Some of Rydens works:

 

The Tree of Life

 Pink Lincoln

Manus Christi

Piano Man

 Princess Sputnik

 Sophias Mercurial Waters

 The Grinder

 The Angel of Meat

Virgin and Child

Wound

cloven bunny

 The Pumpkin President

 Snow white

 Ghost Girl

 Omnibus

The Meat Magician

 Leonardo Di Caprio

 Bjork

Christina

 Abdominable

 Fur Girl

Girls in a Fur Skirt

Grotto Of The Old Mass

 Heaven

 Inside sue

 Long Yak

Sophias Bubbles

"Silver Kingdom"

Yesterday i’ve visited the premiere of “Silver kindom” movie (the one i participated in april) and the the book of the same name writen by Tatlok.
When all this story was filming I had no idea of the script, i was just hanging around in Mr. Peppers (composer of the soundtrack) apartment. The whole procces was inspiring.
The day after i’ve read the book. Impressions was different. Feeling of plastic glamour rotten from within in the begining. But after reading a few chapters i’ve sneaked in this work full of silver – it’s totally different from the inside. It’s very fragile. On the edge. It destroys the world in familiar way of understanding. Everything become liquid and shining. Living in fake makes life so easy to let go. And stay trapped on the other side of curved mirror with a dream squeezed in one’s fist.
Back to the premiere..it took place in LOFT project ETAGI in Saint-Petersburg. I was late so i’ve missed the perfomance by Artem Gavriluk (photographer), but my friends told me it was intricate. I’m sure it was) The gallary was decorated with conceptual paintings, the music played by Mr. Pepper was fancy as always.
I RECOMEND THIS BOOK FOR THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO READ IN RUSSIAN. FOR THOSE WHO CAN NOT WE’LL BE WAITING FOR A GOOD TRANSLATION.

the yard of the loft

such a beautiful evening in the city….

This is how the greatest masterpieces are made

Day of the Dead

 

 

by Eirik Aswang, Kelly Durette

P.S. Thanx God i still find really stunning visuals sometimes.

Mark Ryden

One of my favourite contemporary artists Mark Ryden created hundreds of masterpieces you can’t take your eyes off. Mysterious, symbolical, skillfully crafted tthese works won’t leave you without affection. Close your eyes, then open and wake-up in magical world of fantasy of strange wide-eyed creatures, let this world fill into you..

 

 

Mark Ryden