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Stanisław SzukalskiUnfortunately, the Nazi siege of Warsaw in 1939 resulted in the destruction of the museum and his life’s work. Today, original sculptures by Szukalski are incredibly rare, and most are only alive through photographs taken before the museum installation. Szukalski managed to escape back to America, to live the rest of his life in complete obscurity. . . . → Read More: Stanislaw Szukalski Lithium PicnicThe photographical works of Phillip Warner are some of the most beautiful and tastefully executed fetish imagery I have seen. This oft-published and award-wining photographer runs the Lithium Picnic studio, based in Houston, Texas. Photoshoots, however, very often happen in LA, NYC and Miami. I have never been interested in model photography or fashion photography, per se, but I find Lithium Picnic’s work riveting. I suppose it’s because he takes fringe and makes it gorgeous. That is ever-so-much more appealing than your everyday bulimic junkie runway model! . . . → Read More: Lithium Picnic Gotta Love Lowbrow!Ray Caesar is putting the kink back in kinky. Pouty porcelain-faced child dolls in provocative poses and upskirt shots, with the occassional peek of protruding tentacles or insect-like appendages and a look in their eyes far beyond what it should be…. . . . → Read More: Gotta Love Lowbrow! Joel Peter WitkinBy far one of the most inventive and disturbing modern photographers I have yet to discover, Joel Peter Witkin’s work both attracts and repels the viewer. It’s a bit like being at a carny freak show – you are disturbed by what is being presented to your eyes, yet you cannot look away. It is soley for this reason I adore Mr. Witkin’s bodies of work. . . . → Read More: Joel Peter Witkin Egon SchieleEgon was an Austrian painter, a protege of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Due to the highly-charged nature of his drawings and paintings and his premature death, Schiele has come to epitomise the popular image of the tortured artist. . . . → Read More: Egon Schiele Francis BaconBacon was quoted as saying “We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream, and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.” . . . → Read More: Francis Bacon Pinups and BeerIs there a finer combination? I think not… These beer labels were created for our homebrew beers, and are a homage to the many insanely talented mid-twentieth century pinup artists working their magic in the 1940′s and 1950′s. Utilizing the art of such classic pinup masters as Alberto Vargas, Paul Ballard, Al Buell, Joyce Ballantyne and Rolf Armstrong, these beer labels are an appreciative nod to all things rockabilly and retro. . . . → Read More: Pinups and Beer Art JewelryThis piece, entitled “Rising Light” is from their Moderne Collection and is an asymmetrical fantasy cut of heliador set into a striking sterling silver pendant and surrounded by heavy opalite beads. Heliador, a precious gemstone also known as golden beryl, was discovered in Namibia in 1910 and is still mined today in Brazil and Madagascar. Opalite is a semi-transparent, man-made stone created in such a way as to be slightly hazy and irridescent. It has a color play of yellow and mauve-blue and is reminiscent of opals and moonstone. . . . → Read More: Art Jewelry Rene MagritteA surrealist painter from Belgium, Rene Magritte created his first painting, The Lost Jockey, in 1926 and held his first exhibition in 1927. Dejected over the failure of this exhibition, he moved to Paris and befriended Andre Breton. He went on to become an active member of the Parisian surrealist group which included such talents as Man Ray, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, and Marcel Duchamp, to name a few. . . . → Read More: Rene Magritte |
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