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.

ALL WE HEAR IS... LADY GAGA

It was Swiss Surrealist HR Giger's birthday this week, so on social media, I reposted my 'Lady Gaga - Tribute to Giger' artwork that I did a while back (see This Week's Most Viewed, below). As a supplement to that, here's the original study of the face, which took me weeks and weeks to get right. In the end, I had to resort to geometry to properly make sure everything was in the right place (hence the grid... yes, very ironic).

 

 

[ AIR ] MILEAGE: WORK IN PROGRESS

I just found this unpublished post ( dated 21st April 2017, hence my old logo): It's one of many abstract photo compositions inspired by a stopover at Zurich Airport. Beautiful!

ALT DELETE

 Experimental vector drawing, randomly deleting parts of the composition to see what emerges.

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'FLAG [INTERFERENCE PATTERN]': out-take from a vector art series, as yet unpublished.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

MY ART IN MOXY DOWNTOWN NY : SCREENGRAB

'NO SERVICE'

On Instagram for the first time in ages (the account is still in my legacy phone so I don't get round to it very often), I saw this post featuring my art, dated Thanksgiving November 2019.