Catherine O'Donnell is an Australian visual artist whose practice "is about the beauty of the uncelebrated and ordinary", looking for the intrinsic … [Read more...]
Anatomy of The Line: Drawings by Esjieun Kim
Korean artist and architect Esjieun Kim is interested in the relationship between drawing, movement, and space. The medium which operates the … [Read more...]
The Sense of Erasure: Wilhelm Beestermoeller’s Works
Wilhelm Beestermoeller (also, here), is an artist based in Berlin. His technique consists in drawing or painting over existing photos, sometimes … [Read more...]
‘The Collapse of Cohesion’ by Levi Van Veluw
Levi van Veluw, Dutch artist born in 1985, is a polyhedric artist artist that we already featured many years ago on Socks. Working on a multiple media … [Read more...]
“Circular Surface Planar Displacement Drawing”, 1969 by Michael Heizer
In 1969, American artist Michael Heizer drove a motorcycle in circles in Jean Dry Lake, Nevada. The tire tracks created a pattern of circular lines, … [Read more...]
Adriana Varejão: Metaphorical Body and Gore in the “Sauna Series”
Adriana Varejão (1964) is a Brazilian multimedia artist. Painting, photography, sculpture, installation: her body of work is wide and very diverse as … [Read more...]
Collapsing Utopia: Massinissa Selmani’s “1000 Villages” and the Failed Algerian Agrarian Revolution of 1973
Massinissa Selmani, an Algerian artist born in 1980, began his studies in art in Tours, France after obtaining a degree in computer science. Today, he … [Read more...]
A Land-Art of Imagination: Drawings by František Lesák
František Lesák is a Czech artist who moved to Vienna in 1964. In the series Berglandschaft (Mountain Landscape, 1972-1973), today part of the … [Read more...]
The Even Covering of the Field (Sam Jacob)
As a former British Army Captain converted to scholar of early Muslim architecture, K. A. C. Creswell coined the expression "The even covering of the … [Read more...]
Accidental Abstraction: Works by Marc Nagtzaam
Marc Nagtzaam is a Dutch artist who lives and works in Belgium. His production consists mostly of black and white graphite drawings on different … [Read more...]
Within Four Walls: Binnenskamers by Tim Enthoven
"Binnenskamers" (Within four walls) is a graphic novel by Dutch artist Tim Enthoven, published in 2011. The book contains the detailed story of … [Read more...]
Arnar Ásgeirsson’s Living Sections
Icelandic artist Arnar Ásgeirsson creates narrative works employing disparate materials and techniques, from video to installation and animations. The … [Read more...]
“Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by Zhang Zeduan (12th Century) and an 18th Century Remake
"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is a Chinese artwork attributed to the Song Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145) and painted over a … [Read more...]
Dark Cities of Cleon Peterson
Through an essential palette reduced to black & white or red & black tones, Cleon Peterson depicts acts of violence and abuse iterated to the … [Read more...]
“We cannot not know history” and other Works by Alex Maymind
Alex Maymind (b. Riga, Latvia, 1984) currently pursues a PhD in the history and theory of architecture at UCLA, after studying architecture at Yale … [Read more...]
Diane Berg doesn’t work as an Architect Anymore
Instead she has pursued an increasingly successful career as illustrator. Yet her former education, which deals with narratives inherent in buildings, … [Read more...]
Dacha Rusha Project by Roman Manikhin
Roman Manikhin works on an ongoing project of investigation on Russian traditional architecture of the countryside. His works are made with cardboard … [Read more...]
The Ordinary World Beneath our Feet: ‘Underground’ by David Macaulay
David Macaulay is an American illustrator and writer who devoted many of his books to the careful description of works of architecture and … [Read more...]
House E.1027 by Eileen Gray illustrated by Josephin Ritschel
Josephin Ritschel (Mevameva) is an illustrator living and working in Berlin. We originally knew her thanks to Wrap Magazine that used the illustration … [Read more...]
Drawing Shadows by Gautam Bhatia
Architecture takes ideas of comfort and familiarity and places them in uncomfortable and unfamiliar situations - till they become comfortable and … [Read more...]
“The Architecture of Madness”: León Ferrari’s Héliographias
León Ferrari (1920-2013) was an Argentinian conceptual artist who worked with a series of extremely different medias through the years. … [Read more...]
Light Prop for an Electric Stage by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1929-1930)
László Moholy - Nagy - collage, ink and watercolour on paper "The Light Prop for an Electric Stage", also known as "the Light Space … [Read more...]
