Like a Canadian Picasso, Konstantin Dimopoulos is diving into the deep blue: the Vancouver artist has enlisted the city as his canvas, swathing avenues of trees in shades of deep blue. The effort, aptly titled The Blue Trees, has caught the attention of  film-maker Miranda Andersen, who recently  produced a film on the artist’s tree work Doesn’t The Blue Trees remind you of Dr. Seuss’s delightfully colorful Lorax sprawl, in a way? Scroll through Dimopoulos’s work, and watch Andersen’s mini-documentary, here.

And for more on the artist’s inspiration behind Blue Trees, check out this past post.

With its eye on Atlanta’s art scene, BurnAway has sounded off on its favorite art openings and happenings of 2011. Among the list? gloATL’s Liquid Culture in which flash-mob esque performances unfolded all over Atlanta, and Micah Stansell’s The Water and the Blood, a riff on the ever-popular theme of memory. But let’s cut to the chase.

One of our artists, Craig Dongoski, brought his spectrographic drawings to the WhiteSpace Gallery last spring. In Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release, Dongoski treated his viewers to a live drawing simulation, and paraded his works, whose seismic energy is only paralleled by the San Andreas fault.

Want more Dongoski? Head over to Tinney Contemporary. And check out the rest of BurnAway’s picks here.

- TC

"Jig"

Remember in your elementary school art classes when the teacher would ask you to draw continuously, without picking up your pen once? Well, Vancouver-based artist Stefany Hemming makes that her M.O. Hemming works within a “strict set of formal parameters: one tool, one layer of paint, and one limited block of time.”

This paradoxically free-form and restrictive method results in fecund, seemingly never-ending nests like “Jig,” seen above. To learn more about Hemming and some of our other artists, head over to Tinney Contemporary.

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Could Jaq Belcher’s exquisitely detailed cut paper designs be modeled after high fashion looks? From street style frocks to plunging Brioni designs, we can’t help but notice that Belcher’s craftsmanship could be fodder for the next set of couture designs. Be sure to come by and witness Belcher’s exhibit– Suchness–for yourself, now through January 28th.

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It’s Monday morning–what’s going on in the world of contemporary art, or right in our backyard? Click through the newest and newsworthy.

Projects & insights from our community of artists at Tinney Contemporary.

Margery Amdur, a Tinney Contemporary artist:

“all people still desire to touch and be touched in very palpable ways,” however, the overwhelming majority of touching is through technology, that realm between the paradises of pristine nature and pixelated information.”

Have artists found a way to navigate the pixelated quagmire, (a.k.a. technology)? Is the “T-word” so much a expletive, or is it our newest sense, the keys to touching the human spirit?

In her newest exhibit, “Six Places in Motion” Margery Amdur embraces the pixelated wasteland and turns it into an undiscovered dimension of art, one which bridges our firmest differences, namely because it strikes at technology’s capacity: to speak in a language that can be fluent to all. After all, how markedly different are these pixelations from Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, or the Renaissance-era focus on symmetry, new dimensions, and a pervasive sense of harmony?

Do you think that technology can touch or trap? Let us know in the comments section below.

courtesy of The Huffington Post

From Wall Street to Silicon Valley dumpsters, contemporary artists are swinging back at current events in the best way they know how: through provocative art. What do you think is the Pièce de résistance? We give you our top picks:

1. In “Dumpster Diving Silicon,” Artist XVALA rifled through the trash of technology’s heavy-hitters (think: Mark Zuckerberg and not-so-anoymous CEO’s of Wikipedia, Twitter, and Google), and turned it into sculptural treasures.

2. Did the photographers behind this advertisement from AdBusters–a Canadian cultural magazine–inspire the #OccupyWallStreet movement on Twitter?

3. Vancouver, again. Althea Thauberger’s mural homage to “Death of Marat” is as politically charged as it is jarring.

It’s Monday morning–what’s going on in the world of contemporary art, or right in our backyard? Click through the newest and newsworthy.

Miami: Fresh off of Pulse Art L.A., the art fair makes its way to Miami this December. Very similar to Art Platform…

Boston: If you’re in BeanTown, be sure to check out the Museum of Fine Arts’ “Degas and the Nude” exhibit. Or, you know, just read the New Yorker’s review.

Nashville: Check out all the winners from Best of Nashville 2011…agree or disagree with the winners?

New York: You know it was bound to happen. A group of artists–cheekily calling their setup “No Comment”–temporarily occupied Wall Street. Check out the photos.

Nashville: “Tracey Snelling’s Woman on the Run at the Frist is a near-miss, but a miss nonetheless.” Ouch. Will you be checking out the Frist’s newest exhibit?

Massachusetts: Designer Emily Jerome shows off her newest fashion designs @ the MassMOCA. The lookbook was shot in the North Adams, MA space.

New York: A piano growing out of a tree? Check out the Brooklyn Musem’s current “Sweet Funk” exhibit (until January 8th).

Ohio: Nashville artist Anabel Hopkins takes her work to the Phi Gallery at the Hotel Indigo. Right now Ron Arnold showcases photos made into paintings at his “Photo to Art” exhibit at the hotel. Get the full scoop here.

Chicago: Chocolate Around the World exhibit at the Chicago Field Museum. Need we say more?

Nashville: The Coop Collective is currently hosting their newest exhibit — My mind is telling me know but my body is telling me yes. (At the Vanderbilt E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center until October 7th). Also of note: Imagine By Hand exhibit.

Washington D.C.: The nation’s capital premieres its first flash art “collective.” Check out all the photos.

New York: Andy Warhol…but not the one you’re thinking of.

We love this black  & white photo of Pete Townshend monkeying around, or a pseudo-serious shot of mustache clad Warhol. When we see rockstars, celebrities, and the beautiful people just “hanging out,” we can’t help but feel as though we’re friends with them. Jonathan Postal–“The Man Who Shot Rock”–thinks so, too.

What musical megamind do you want to throw back a brew (or two) with? Let us know in the comments section.