Albuquerque-based commercial photographer Wes Naman has discovered how to draw out the best of the worst in his contortionist portrait series Scotch Tape. Inspired by a silly moment while wrapping presents, Naman recruited family and friends to be transformed by his mutant use of office supplies. Simultaneously horrifying and hilarious, each smashed nose and stretched lip provides zombie-esque plastic surgery that one cannot look away from. Never taking more than 10 minutes to apply his effect, Naman uses photography to stretch and squeeze everyday people into fantastically freaky creatures.
Dubbed the "Queen of Double Eyes," artist Alex Garant depicts beautiful women that are multi-eyed and in double vision. The gorgeously-painted
New Zealand-based artist Henrietta Harris creates watercolor paintings that often involve portraiture with a departure into the surreal with faces skillfully obscured and misplaced by the clean sweep of a brushstroke. When asked about her inspiration for her works she replies: “I get this question so frequently – inspiration and influences- but it’s very hard […]
Famed for its surrealist sleeve design, Hipgnosis also took rock portraiture into altered states. In our recent May issue, Adrian Shaughnessy reviews a recently…
Poking fun at the fashion industry, French artists Bruno Metra and Laurence Jeanson stick images of facial features cut out from fashion magazines over the models to form new facial expressions.
Albuquerque-based commercial photographer Wes Naman has discovered how to draw out the best of the worst in his contortionist portrait series Scotch Tape. Inspired by a silly moment while wrapping presents, Naman recruited family and friends to be transformed by his mutant use of office supplies. Simultaneously horrifying and hilarious, each smashed nose and stretched lip provides zombie-esque plastic surgery that one cannot look away from. Never taking more than 10 minutes to apply his effect, Naman uses photography to stretch and squeeze everyday people into fantastically freaky creatures.
Caroline Westerhout’s cerebral paintings are selective in rendering aspects of the body faithfully, otherwise distorting the female form and offering unexpected textures. Though this may bring disconcerting results, each of the works carry a vulnerable and honest quality.
8″ x 8″ – Oil on paper This 8″ x 8″ self portrait color study is on black cotton rag paper. It is a whimsically
‘Proxy’: a collection of abstract portraits, unfettered by proximity, meditating on distance & distortion. By Seb JJ Peters. Almost an extension of his catalogu
