Aesthetics | Serial Optimist - Part 2

All posts tagged Aesthetics

Artist Feature: Pierre Botardo

Brooklyn via Virginia artist Pierre Botardo creates collage work that screams raw emotion and rebellion in a way that doesn’t seem rude or out of angst, but on a personal [...]

Cutting, Sticking & Scribbling: Kieron Cropper

27 year old, Brighton, UK collage artist Kieron Cropper creates work that is influenced by science fiction, music, astronomy, woodland creatures, B-movies, and occult imagery. He is involved in the [...]

Artist Feature: James Gallagher

Brooklyn artist James Gallagher uses collage to investigate human form and personal identity. Piecing together images cut from discarded books, forgotten issues of National Geographic, and the occasional vintage sex-manual, [...]

Project 12:31

Texas murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan was executed by lethal injection on August 5, 1993 at 12:31 am. His cadaver was sectioned and photographed for the Visible Human Project, a digital [...]

Photocopy Collage Work by Tristram Mason

Artist Tristram Mason, a second year illustration student at Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design in London has been creating, or maybe I should say experimenting, with some [...]

Double Exposure: Dan Mountford

Young British designer and student Dan Mountford has a small but supreme portfolio on his personal Flickr account. It’s for sure worth a visit. His recent “Double Exposure” series is unreal, [...]

Installation & Sculpture Work From Myeongbeom Kim

Educated in South Korea and the United States, Myeongbeom Kim creates installations and sculpture works that contrast man-made elements with nature to create surreal dream-like spaces. Utilising suspension as a common [...]

Graphic Designer Feature: Andre Meca

Andre Meca is a Portuguese graphic design and illustrator. He is currently studying Graphic Design in Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD) at Caldas da Rainha and working as [...]

Talking to People is Easy: Alex Kisilevich

Toronto based artist Alex Kisilevich creates images that communicate feelings of isolation, mortality, and detachment, and may both be humorous and disturbing. His staged psychological dramas are quiet and pose [...]

Photography Feature: Rebecca Cairns

As The Jealous Curator puts it: “Cindy Sherman meets Diane Arbus…with just a hint of The 6th Sense“. Well said. These black and white photographs from Toronto based Rebecca Cairns [...]

Collage Artist Jesse Treece & Ice Cream Kingdoms

Seattle based collage artist Jesse Treece uses vintage books and magazines to create surreal and absurd landscapes. We at Serial Optimist love collaboration, and Jesse shares this love. He is [...]

Photographer Feature: Angela Blumen

I asked photographer Angela Blumen to tell me a little bit about herself. Her response is a cute and enthusiastic paragraph (I only asked for a paragraph, now I wish [...]

Artist Feature: Manfred Naescher

Manfred Naescher is a conceptual visual artist. His work investigates memory and artifice with the aid of tools like Derrida’s concept of cinema as “the art of allowing ghosts to [...]

The Magic & Absurdity: Delilah Jones

Delilah Jones is a 23-year-old photographer, collage artist, and poet who now lives in Portland via New York. Her goal? “Trying to make art a reality, infecting minds, hearts, and [...]