Patternbank love the chaotic rhythms of New Zealand based artist James Cousins. With not an ounce of Photoshop trickery, Cousins paints alluring abstract imagery that mixes nature and erratic pattern forms. These sublime impressions are scored with geometric patterns, grid statements or concentric circles, creating a variegated visual filter and further distorting the image beneath. Check out more of his work at Ryan Renshaw’s gallery site.
We Make Carpets is an art collective consisting of Stijn van der Vleuten, Marcia Nolte, and Bob Waardenburg. They make temporary structures that resemble carpets from a distance. The Patterbank team’s favourite piece is the intricate pattern form made up of pastel coloured plastic cutlery. The artists have also made carpets out of medical tape, cotton balls, balloons, screws, cocktail sticks and pasta. The carpets are temporary, made on the spot with no thought out plans or sketches beforehand. See more of these wonderful pattern pieces at wemakecarpets.nl
Sticking with the Australian flavour, we also saw these large scale collage pieces the other day and thought we’d share. Rone is one of the most iconic graffiti artists of Australia, his work hides under many overpasses throughout the city of Melbourne. Over the years the now famed artist reached street acclaim for plastering large canvases depicting faces of “girls” throughout the urban centers of Australia, London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Tokyo, Barcelona and Hong Kong. We love the semi translucent collage technique that gives these new pieces real depth and visual intrigue. r-o-n-e.com
Since 1994 Dextro has been creating abstract works of immense beauty in a variety of different formats including algorithmic computer art and video, photography, graphic design and oil on canvas paintings; which we preview here – I can remember seeing this site in the mid 90′s and his timeless work looks as fresh and unique as it did back then. A true modern classic – dextro.org
Pixel Noizz works with generative structures on the Audiovisual and Art Field and experiments in Interactive Visual Design. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. We love the lo-res, glitchy, 8-bit quality of his work that embraces randomness, compression and noise. He’s a busy chap and and has been involved with many Art Projects, Gigs and Festivals in Europe. For more great work check out his website and his Flickr site.
Mythological, spiritual, pantheistic: the first adjectives to define the metaphysical world of Bruno 9li, one of the most interesting artist within Brazilian artistic panorama. Bruno synthetises his artistic production into several dichotomies and contradictions of the Brazilian world: metropolitan, ephemeral and technological. Check out more of his amazing work at bruno9li.com
These vibrant, visual explorations are the stunning work of San Francisco artist Tobias Tovera. Lush and complex, the layers of fine tissue paper create amazing pattern forms and visual structures. Patternbank love the intense colour depth and abstract imagery that are unique to each artwork. TobiasTovera.com
Hydro74 is a respected Orlando based designer, otherwise known as Joshua M. Smith. Hydro74 is a master of achieving smooth fluid lines within his work and swears by drawing everything by hand first. The computer aided vector process comes after Smith is happy with the final sketched artwork. Patternbank love these latest artworks, where halftone pattern, complex vector form and overlaid colour blend together to create a collection of powerful visual images. Hydro74.com
