Contemporary Art
Mark McCormick Designs – Brooklyn’s Finest
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | Contemporary Art, Pop Culture Notions | No Comments
Loving the work and new portfolio site by Brooklyn based artist, designer, illustrator and all-around-dude Mark McCormick.
Mark is Senior Designer at CRUNCH Gyms and so you’ve likely seen his work across every aspect of that brand’s collateral. Cool icons for web, murals, print, you name it.
The melted snowman on treadmill above makes me yearn for Spring (dare I say Summer?)
Take a minute to look through the great concert posters, personal projects, and other goodies at his website: http://markmccormickdesigns.roxer.com
Also he’s participating in “Thing a Day” at his other website. Good for a daily intertube fix:
http://nakedfowl.posterous.com/
-Tonky
TINY: Art From Microscopes – UW Madison
Monday, January 18th, 2010 | Contemporary Art, Pop Culture Notions, Power & Politics | No Comments
Welcome,
There is a delicious show in the gallery at the airport (Truax Field) in Madison, WI that features photographs and rapid prototypes (3D objects “printed” layer by layer) by scientists from UW-Madison’s various research departments in collaboration with Tandem Press.
The exhibition text surveys the history of medical illustration and explains how “as early as 13,000BC, drawings of body parts aided Egyptians during the mummification process.”
The fancy colored 3d objects shown above and in the gallery below (click image to see larger) are upscale versions of such tiny molecules as DNA and RNA and also molecular motors that will some day propel themselves through our body to perform repairs and deliver drugs like chemo to affected regions.
The grey electron microscope image of a tree-looking tendril is a “trichome” on a mustard plant leaf. These structures are what make a leaf feel “fuzzy”
The crystalline image shows nanorods – a material being developed for use in solar cells.
This show is stimulating beyond the aesthetic joys these images provide because we are reminded that we live in the future. These scientist are inventing tiny robots that will repair fatal aneurysms and new materials that will allow us to harvest sunlight for energy and thus avoid wars cause by lust for the buried sunlight that is crude oil.
-Tonky
HAPPY NEW YEEEEAAARRR!!!!
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | Contemporary Art | 1 Comment
Perfect packing snow in Prospect Park BKLYN today. We made a 7′ tall snow rabbit to bid adieu to 2009. See you in the future.
-Tonky
The American Diorama – Original Panel
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | Contemporary Art, The American Diorama, Tonky Limited Editions | No Comments
This is one of the more labor intensive works I’ve made recently.
The title: The American Diorama refers to my ongoing thought experiment imagining this country a million years in the future.
Whether or not we are around still, I like to imagine what the dioramas depicting the USA will look like in the museums of a colonizing civilization of extraterrestrials.
This panel is made of birch and the medium is primarily acrylic paint layered and resisted. With some added collage elements.
-Tonky
If interested, For sale on Etsy HERE
WTC Fence – Design Competition Submission
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | Contemporary Art, Pop Culture Notions, Power & Politics, Tonky Graphic Design | No Comments
This is a rendering from my submission to the design competition being hosted by The NYC Department of Transportation in collaboration with the Port Authority of NY & NJ to transform the currently drab construction fence that lines the WTC perimeter to something a little more amicable to tourists and local gentry.
Gound Zero is the more colloquial name for the World Trade Center construction site, no doubt the most politically charged patch of land in the country.
Project Statement:
The organic super graphic meanders through an underlying colorful grid along usable sections of fence. The viewer identifies with the flourish and in it sees their own navigation of the city. In this way, the composition reflects the vitality of the bourgeoning downtown commercial and residential neighborhood.
The rebuilding has proven slow due to infighting between powers that be: Larry Silverstein (leaser of the site) NY & NJ Port Authority (owner of the site), and victim’s families, to name a few.
The challenge it seems is to find a development solution that properly honors the lives of the victims and that also utilizes that highly valuable downtown real estate in a way that is best for the city’s future. Is the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower really the best we can come up with? ( USA founded in 1776, get it? )
Proposals due Oct. 5 – Get yours done now! $7500 design fee.
Submit Here
Tonky’s New Residential Mural (NYC, NY)
Monday, September 14th, 2009 | Contemporary Art, Tonky Limited Editions | No Comments
Welcome,
Feast thine eyes upon some installation pics of a new work I recently completed at a private residence in Manhattan this week. These kind patrons commissioned a one-of-a-kind variation on my unraveling composition in chrome theme.
I’d say it is located in Soho, but it is above Houston St. and so I am not sure if you neighborhood purists would scold me for that. Let’s call it Snoho-Bowery-Village until further notice.
Anyone know a good searchable map to accurately distinguish NYC neighborhoods? I’m talking block by block precision.
-Tonky
Tonky Exhibition: The American Diorama
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | Contemporary Art, The American Diorama, Tonky Graphic Design | No Comments
Please pay a visit to the Tea Lounge in Brooklyn, NY to see my recent show The American Diorama. An alternate title could be Advetures in Laptopville. Dang do people love that free internet. Have a gander, drink a well-crafted beverage, and buy some art!
July 3 – August 3
837 Union St
Brooklyn, NY 11215-1308
(718) 789-2762
-Tonky
