The strange worlds of David Ball are forged with acrylic paint, colored pencil, and collaged materials. The artist’s pieces have been described as “otherworldly dreamscapes, composed through the harvesting of an endless trove of carefully selected images.” With this varied blend of materials, there’s both an organic (and animalistic) and mechanical quality to these creatures.
“His interests range from observed relationship dynamics and social commentary to more introverted personal works, all in surreal, otherworldly landscapes driven by character and narrative,” a past statement says. “David creates both fine art and illustration works with the help of his talkative cat, Cho Cho and lots and lots of coffee.”
See more of Ball’s work below.
German-born collage artist 
Sam Gainsborough's film "Facing It" cleverly combines live-action actors and mixed-media stop motion. With heads made from plasticine, the artist told Directors Notes that he "shot the film in live action and pixelation and then separately shot the character’s faces in the studio against a green-screen, almost rotoscoping the footage we had already shot." This required Gainsborough to match the faces to the actors frame by frame.
Armed with a pair of scissors, Huntz Liu's multilayered paper collages have the viewer guessing which geometric forms offer actual depth or just give the illusion of it. With names like "Color Chasm," "Gravity," and "Boxy Configurations," the artist acknowledges that playful deception that carries across the works in his new show at Thinkspace Projects, which runs through Oct. 5 at the space.