I found the portfolio site of NYC artist, Ben Grasso, the other day and I’m blown away by his work. His use of these exploded house structures is really haunting. They cling to shape as some omnipotence uproots them and moves them. It feels like a computer design-space image, an isometric house view mixed with calm destruction in a sensible landscape painting.

Ben Grasso, Ascending House

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Emilo Chapela Perez does BMW

Emilio Chapela Perez takes the colors and distribution of those colors from corporate logos and makes some awesome graphic pieces from them. This guy is very thoughtful. Hard for an artist to convince me to click on every single link of their site but this one is the goods.

I also enjoyed his Traces work, crumple up paper and then trace the creases. Really simple but I’ve never seen it before.

Traces by Emilio Chapela Perez