Michael Leon

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There isn't much I can say about this gentleman because I only just discovered him accident on ffffound.com. Michael has managed to fully pique my interest with his extremely varied multi-media works. He seems to traverse a carefully planned path between conceptual art and commercial graphic illustration and photography without resorting to hoary positive/negative pop cliches. He can make a chin stroking sculpture for gallery clients and then with absolute ease design shirts for Nike. Be a dear and check out his website. If you don't find at least one thing to like on it then i'll make my next article about Edwin Landseer.

http://michaelleonstudio.com/web/

An Introduction to Fallen Over

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Fred Muram

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Every project photographer Fred Muram presents us with the startling results of his mechanically simple projects is singular and surprising. Although all of his work operates on the principle of abstracting ordinary locations, people and objects or by conjuring surrealist scenarios without bending the rules of physics and biology - Fred has yet to become predictable and his various strategies for finding the extroadinary in the ordinary. My favorite works are to be found in his Rug series which all feature the human form obscured by rolled up rugs. I like how its unclear wether or not one individual played the role in all photographs or if many contributed their bodies for the project. Regardless of that it results in images that cleverly and gently veer between cosy humour and unfamiliar anxiety. They are by no means fearful looking creatures but there is also something almost inhuman/extrahuman about them.

http://fredmuram.com/

An Introduction to Fallen Over

Tim Berresheim

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I came across Tim Berresheim and two years ago and I admit upon first seeing his work I felt as if my eyes were going to projectile vomit. But then I realized that such a reaction is a good thing! You don't always get your moneys worth out of modern art. The artist uses computer graphics in order to "surprise himself" as he puts it. This results in the kind of mind numbing surrealism the world hasn't really replicated since the 50's. I've grown to love his art because of its decidely user-unfriendly appearance. Its tempting to say that such ambiguity leaves the images open to interpretation but I think their strength lies in how illegible they are. What can one say when faced which such visually confounding art?

http://www.timberresheim.com/

An Introduction to Fallen Over

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I've been at it again. Sifting through all the eco bandwagon warrior shopping bag for life illustrations on ffffound!.com in search of suitable artwork to blog about. I came across this. I absolutely love how the artist has abstracted the figurative by such an elegantly simple means. A moment of faulty beauty captured in the hiss and crackle of the worlds inescabable visual artifice.

I'd love to tell you who made it. However after a bit of incredibly rubbish detective work on my part i've only gathered that its origins was the website VVork. I assumed by reading the images URL address that I would find the picture and its respective information in the june 2008 archives. Alas I found many other lovely things sans this Rewind image. After an unusuccesful though far from fruitless search through the rest of 2008's archives I got bored and gave up.

If you have any information regarding who made this piece please let me know via a comment or via email at abzhog@hotmail.co.uk - so I can give the artist/s due credit.

An Introduction to Fallen Over