Robert Williams is one of the most popular artists in America today and is a featured artist in the Surreal Art Collective. His dynamic work often includes women, cars, food, and 1950's Americana. Robt. masters the so-called "lowbrow" art-forms: rock album cover art, comic art, hot-rod art, etc.

Here is a recent documentary interview of Robert Williams (sourced from YouTube) which I found very interesting. Williams speaks passionately about the trends of the contemporary art world, the general bias against representational paintings and being pigeon holed as a common illustrator.

In mid 1960s San Francisco, Robt. became art director for hot-rod hero Ed "Big Daddy Roth. Robt. quickly became one of the most important West Coast underground artists - creating psychedelic posters and contributing to comics like Zap with great artists like Robert Crumb.

Williams also founded Juxtapoz Magazine and is considered the founding father of Cartoon Surrealism & Lowbrow Art. Nicolas Cage, Leonardo diCaprio, Johnny Depp, Jesse James & many other celebrities have purchased Robt. Williams' paintings.

We have also published a short article by Williams on Lowbrow Art  

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Patricia Piccinini is the famous Australian Conceptual Artist behind this strangely beautiful anthropomorphic sculpture. The sculpture to the right was created by Australian Sculptor Sam Jinks under the direction of Piccinini.

'The Young Family' from the 'We Are Family' exhibition.

Materials: Silicone, acrylic, human hair, leather, timber

Dimensions: 80 x 150 x 110 cm (irreg.) 

Piccinini explores what she calls the 'often specious distinctions between the artificial and the natural'. By displaying the similarities and differences between the organic, natural and our constructed material world, Piccinini challenges our classification of life. This inspires her to combine human and animal physiology and technological development in many of her works.

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In the true spirit of collaboration the ZoomQuilt project has taken the Surrealists game of Exquisite Corpse to a whole new level (or dimension) with an interactive online flash animation. Zoomquilt I was a collaborative art project (17 contributors) from 2005 which used optical illusion and a series of interlocking surreal comic images, to create an endless series of imagery when compiled in a programmed loop. In 2007 (after 2 years work) The group (now with 34 contributors) has launched Zoomquilt II which is substantially longer than the original, making it slower and less dynamic, but still very impressive!

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