DAY 2200 - Transparent Man

Drawing by Gordon Rabut

DAY 2199 - The German Painter

Artwork by Brett Hollis

DAY 2198 - To the Streets 15

Photography by Trevor Hawkins

DAY 2197 - Ricardo Flores Magon Academy

Mural by Tony Ortega

DAY 2196 - Metazoa III

Drawing by Cecilia Beaven

DAY 2195 - Rareza Espacial

Painting by Cristian Elizalde

DAY 2194 - Pintura Fugaz

Painting by Andrés Gamiochipi

DAY 2193 - BIT.TRIP Vinyl Design

Artwork by Drew Wise

DAY 2192 - The Perfect Week

Painting by Despina Stokou

DAY 2191 - Creep

Photography by John Coulter

DAY 2190 - 6 Year Anniversary

Tarot - La Luna XVIII

Painting by Álvaro Izquierdo 

DAY 2189 - Pool

Tile pool by Marco Kalach

DAY 2188 - To the Streets 40

Photography by Trevor Hawkins

DAY 2187 - El Bloc del Narco 3

Artwork by Camilo Restrepo

DAY 2186 - Entrance to the Mountains

Painting by Tracy Felix

DAY 2185 - Installation of Insulation

Painting by Daniel Dove

DAY 2184 - Espejo

Artwork by Cecilia Beaven

DAY 2183 - Border March

Painting by Art Hazelwood

DAY 2182 - El Acordeonista

Painting by Tony Ortega

DAY 2181 - Untitled

Painting by Johnny Abrahams

DAY 2180 - Tub

Tub by Marco Kalach

DAY 2179 - Mysterious Cargo

Artwork by Alyson Khan

DAY 2178 - Nacionalismo Domestico II

Nacionalismo Domestico II by Francisco Mateo Rodriguez

Maxima Seguridad by Francisco Mateo Rodriguez

Review by John Coulter

Francisco Mateo Rodriguez is a political and conceptual artist from Madrid.  Some of his best work examines public places and surveillance.  They address topics of borders:  where people can go, and who watches their movements and actions.  He questions the rules of social spaces, land and property. 

‘Máxima Seguridad’ highlights complacency in a surveillance society.  The toy normalizes security.  Children who grow up with security cameras as a constant, are less suspicious of being watched than those of a generation that saw the technology implemented.  A critical voice towards the surveillance state is rare in the art world and rare amongst mass media.  The wit with which Mateo’s messages are delivered is HD sharp. 

His complex projects confront important issues on privacy and being watched.  More artists should follow in Mateo’s footsteps.  Keep tuned to the Shark blog for more of Mateo’s art. 

DAY 2177 - A Giant Hiding

Collage by Andrés Gamiochipi

DAY 2176 - Los Trabajadores de Palisade

Monotype print by Tony Ortega

DAY 2175 - New Path Through Noplace

Print by Jacob Crook

DAY 2174 - Bla

Gif by Cecilia Beaven 

DAY 2173 - Caradura

Collage by Andrés Gamiochipi

DAY 2172 - The Gatherer

Mixed Media by Brett Hollis 

DAY 2171 - Low Tide

Painting by Andrew Piedilato

Review by John Coulter

Andrew Piedilato is a Brooklyn painter from Athens, Georgia.  His stylized landscapes depict shattered worlds consumed by a deluge.

Piedilato uses a unique vocabulary across his series of works.  He’s built a language that describes forms torn apart that the the viewer must reconstruct.  Crumbled columns and gnarled ropes are shown strewn about organically like arteries: as if some cataclysm had shattered the realm.  His works thematize entropy and break down organization.  Constructions are laid ruin in a bold graphic style similar to Hokusai or Mondrian.  The worlds are dense with a compositional rhythm that makes them squirm like a Thomas Hart Benton landscape. 

‘Sea Snail’  showcases broken architectural elements wrapped like a snail resting in a nest of pipes tossed amongst a strange white sea of bricks.  The bricks are used in an unfamiliar way in these irregular seascapes. 

In ‘Hull’  a ship is awash a cola colored sea with stained icebergs.  A neon sky feels natural in these worlds.  The subtle use of perspective and shadows, give the strange worlds a grounded sense of reality.  Yet the alienness rivals the Fantastic Planet. 

Piedilato’s surreal shipwrecks contend with Giorgio de Chirico’s gutsy forms.  Make sure to collect his work and visit his website.   

DAY 2170 - Playscape

Painting by Daniel Dove