Archive for February, 2012
Artist and Designer: Katharina Trudinski
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Katharina Trudinski, a founder and designer for one of Weltenbuerger’s successful German lines, Hui Hui is not only an outstanding fashion designer, but is also an amazing artist. As a trained textile designer, she has used her skills to create pieces she refers to as paintings. Trudinski’s love of color and texture is visible not only in her paintings but in her clothing line Hui Hui. She works by using Photoshop to collage paintings and drawings into an abstract print and digitally prints them onto fabric, for example this painting that she used to print a scarf:
Artist: Brian Kenny
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
“Brian Kenny was born 1982 in Heidelberg (Germany) on an American military base. While growing up, he traveled extensively throughout the US with his Army family. As a teenager, Brian was a competitive gymnast. After high school, he went to Oberlin Conservatory to study voice, but eventually left school to concentrate on visual art. In 2004, Brian moved to New York where he began collaborating with Slava Mogutin under the team name SUPERM. Together they are responsible for site-specific, multimedia gallery and museum shows in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, London, Moscow, Berlin, Oslo, Bergen, León (Spain), and Haifa (Israel). In 2008, he had his first solo exhibition of drawings and etchings in New York. Brian works across drawing, painting, sculpture, text, sound, video, and blogging. ”
(source: catch-fire.com & brian-kenny.com)
