One of those quotes that stuck with me as I make my way through art school is a call for artists to “be of your own time.” It’s something that every artist whose in favor of quality over immediacy holds them self to. I like a lot of older things more than what’s coming out now – using history as a big library to explore is a great advantage. On the other hand, I’m wary of nostalgia in general, and even more so of losing touch with what is actually happening in the world right now and thus I’m always on the look out for whats new in the now.
With that being said, I introduce you to Lauren Albert AKA Lala, an illustrator and textile designer living in Brooklyn, New York. As soon as I came across her illustrations I was amazed by the colorful, distorted, twisted, and at times multi-limbed/eyed figures. There is something disturbing about her work in general, it has a very particular style to it, and something too inventive and intriguing to ignore. Her drawings are stretched out and swelled like they’re in a lava lamp, and usually assembled withe text – creating a commune of stylish cohesion. In the constant quest to find ‘right coloring materials’, she uses the flattest most brightest mediums, not limited to pens, markers, gouache, watercolor and color pencils to render her the depths of her alien world. She works both digitally and by hand, but I prefer her drawings, they reveal a raw texture full of scribbles and shaky emotions – she is truly who she proclaims her self to be, a “master of psychedelic figures and worlds.”
Here are some of Lala’s amazing pieces from her ongoing series “Alien Invasion”, you can also see more from her Flickr stream.
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