VECTOR EXPERIMENT: AMERICAN BANDANA (STONEWASHED)

 

VECTOR EXPERIMENT: SHEET METAL II

 

VECTOR EXPERIMENT: BLOC PARTY

 

VECTOR EXPERIMENT: INDUSTRIAL NOUVEAU

 

STAIRWAY TO NEVER

Below: Abstract Photo Collage Composition, 2018

Below: Abstract Vector Composition June 2021, based on elements in my painting STEALTH ( 2016 )

Below: Abstract Photo Collage Composition, 2018

EXPERIMENTAL COMPOSITION

HOMAGE TO JAPAN: SKY/EARTH/CLOUDS 

Abstract Vector Composition:

Real-world paint strokes digitized,

recoloured and recomposed.

NEW HIEROGLYPHS - EXPERIMENTAL WORK

Digital composition features a mix of geometric vector shapes overlaid with natural real-world paintbrush strokes, vectorised.

New Hieroglyphs, Vector drawing.

GRID EXPERIMENT

Vector Art experiment. I'm not usually a fan of random painterly gestures but I do love the hard collision of amorphous shapes next to a simple grid form, as if a hole was ripped in the surface of the screen.

MISTAKES & SPLATTERS

I just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to configure these paint splats and squares into something that somehow achieved a balance, while at the same time being not balanced. 

Experimental Vector Drawing, 2021

PICKING UP THE PIECES

'FLAG [INTERFERENCE PATTERN]': out-take from a vector art series, as yet unpublished.

PERIPHERAL VISIONS 02

 Below: Colony Collapse II / Vector Composition

PERIPHERAL VISIONS / 01

In the case of my 'analog' art ( canvas, paints, pencils, paper ), I've already mentioned that I rarely use sketchbooks. That is, when I start a piece of work, it's usually with the intention of getting it to a completed state ( whatever that is, it's a bit of a philosophical question ). Cont'd...

Below: Datastream Arabesque Glitch Experiments / Vector Composition

In contrast, my digital / vector art, is exactly the opposite. Each finished piece has dozens of staging points, most of which are to be found around the edge of the work space, off-screen. Re-opening a file containing not only the main piece, but all the iterations that later became the main piece, it's sometimes easy to conclude that these discarded elements and compositions can be worthy of re-examination. Sometimes they can even preferable to the artwork that I decided was the final-final version.

( Occasionally, even a discarded fragment can be worthy of inclusion, when viewed with fresh eyes after the event ).

It could be late at night, you're listening to your favourite podcast, or an album, and you are assembling and configuring shapes and forms, and editing colours, and thinking of depth and space. Sometimes you are not thinking at all, just simply throwing things around. 

What these iterations represent, are slices of time. 

Below: Datastream Arabesque Glitch Experiments / Vector Composition

All artwork on this blog, unless explicitly stated otherwise, is property of Alexi K.

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WELCOME

Yes, I'm still here. So are you. I've been very busy off the grid in 2020, using lockdown to work on other projects in other disciplines.

How has it been for you?

I want to hear from you. Due to time constraints, I don't activate the 'comment section' because I wouldn't be able to respond. However, do feel free to email me at the address below, using the subject 'blog visitor' so that I can find you in my spam folder. People who take the time to email will always get a response. Ask me anything about art: your studies, the 'art life', whatever.

Below: Sheet Metal Experiment, Vector Drawing, 2021.

Below: Sheet Metal Experiment, Vector Drawing, (detail ) 2021.

I'M BACK

NOTICE: 2020 kind of got in the way. Normal service will be resumed as quickly as possible.

Probably on January the 1st when we all go 'what the hell just happened'?

Above: Abstract Experiment, Vector Art by Alexi K

HIGH-VIZ FUTURISM

Found this close-up of one of my paintings while going through my files. Love the colours and the textures.

Close-up, angled detail shot. Acrylic on box canvas, 60cm x 60cm, 2018.

ALEXI K: DIGITAL, ANALOG, MATERIAL ARTIST

DIGITAL

'DATASTREAM ARABESQUES' : Vector Compositions, 2017

Photo courtesy of Moxy Downtown Hotel, NYC.

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ANALOG

'POLYGRAPH NUDES' : Ink on Paper, 2009

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MATERIAL

'ELECTRONIQUE' SHOE : Pattern Design, 2015

Photo courtesy of Bucketfeet

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All artwork copyright Alexi K. 

'A'...'OK'

I was designing my own font last year ( not yet seen on this blog ), and inevitably ended up using the 'A' and 'K' in my 2019 logo designs ( notably the 'A' with way-finding chevrons that you may have seen on my posts ). Since then, I've decided to have another go, so I'm experimenting with new versions of the logo and abstractified configurations of the font.

I love the beauty and elegance of various non-European alphabets, and ultimately want to invent my own.   

Below: Combining 'abstract alphabet' vector shapes, with a real-world paint stroke

( 2020 ).

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ANTICIPATING THE PAST,

NOSTALGIC ABOUT THE FUTURE

Welcome to my blog - I've been expecting you. Hope to see more of you in the coming months.

- Alexi

Above: Front cover for VAROUFAKIS ( prog rock band ), Jan 2020

All artwork and photography in this blog is by Alexi K, reproduction by permission only. 

Above: VAROUFAKIS ( outtake ), Jan 2020

MOXY DOWNTOWN: ON THE UP

Very pleased that the super-funky designer hotel MOXY DOWNTOWN NYC - which features a series of my digital mosaic tiles in the lobby - has been nominated for the Condé Nast Reader's Choice Award. No doubt part of its amazing success is the contribution of interior designer Kim Edwards who infused the hotel with her playful, eclectic, and energetic sense of aesthetics. Well done, Kim!

Below: Datastream Arabesque #8 ( detail with texture )

About the Datastream Arabesques: Each composition is made of fragments of other compositions that were broken up, partially deleted and then recomposed. In other words, it was a digital version of smashing up a load of ceramics in order to create a mosaic from the fragments. The artwork evolved naturally into a series of Futuroid Arabic motifs, which I'm still experimenting with, but haven't released yet.

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COLONY COLLAPSE

Colony Collapse - Digital Drawing, April 2019.