Monthly Archives: October 2007

The “Do Hit Chair”

The “Do Hit Chair”, designed by Marijn Van Der Poll is an interesting, and controversial experiment in design. When one purchases a Do Hit Chair, one gets a .04 inch stainless steel cube, and a large sledgehammer with an unorthodox head. The chair is “custom made by letting the user smash it”. Basically you bash [...]

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Cosimo Cavallaro: “Sweet Jesus”

Cosimo Cavallaro is a sculptor who primarily works in unusual materials like cheese, candy, and chocolate. His biggest boom in popularity also came with a great deal of ridicule and controversy. The “My Sweet Lord” exhibition in March, 2007 at the Lab Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel in Manhattan was canceled over the controversy [...]

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Auburn University Student Sculpture Show – Oct 30

Don’t forget to check out the Auburn University Student Scuplture Show on October 30th at the Opelika Arts Association. Click here for directions.

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Featured Artist: Lillian Piri

“mister e”
color pencil

Lillian Piri, an Australian, has a body of work that has such a sense of whimsy and familiarity that it is hard to deny the appeal. Her work always contains such a strong narrative feeling, that each drawing seems to be illustrating part of a story you haven’t yet heard. Her use [...]

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Social Networking/Application T-shirts

On the same veil as boboetm’s Facebook shirts from eariler this spring, someone has taken the DIY Digg Counter by Lady Ada and combined it with a tshirt–wearable, interactive art.
Check out this video and visit Thydzik’s site

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Flick Find: My Undying Love for Stencils

I have a serious weakness for stencil art. Good, bad, strange, I love it all. Something about the aesthetic just does something for me. So for this weeks Flickr Find I just wanted to select a handful of stencil works I thought were either good to look at, or good to talk about.

Here is a [...]

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Trevi turned red

Click Here to Go to the Wooster Collective Article 

[update: It has been brought to my attention that the post that was originally here was lifted directly from the Wooster Collective site. We at Artkamp are by no means in the business of passing other peoples work as our own. For the sake of journalistic integrity, [...]

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