Dimitri Tsykalov is a Russian-born artist who lives in Paris. Images from this series of knit credit cards are courtesy of Galerie Rabouan Moussion. I also recommend checking out his series of skulls.

While never really working on his first short film Fikon Tony Cederteg made these short little films with his cell phone – mostly for the music of Jony but obviously in some restlessness.

Tom Burr is an American artist based in New York. His show, deep wood drive, opens at Bortolami Gallery in NYC March 7 and runs through April 26.

As students at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, Tae Kitakata and Brittany Powell shared adjoining studios. Since graduating they have returned, respectively, to Hawaii and Oregon, but they have continued working together on their joint blog, Low Commitment Projects. They post a new project on the blog each Monday, alternating weeks. This project was posted by Brittany Powell and features sandwiches inspired by various artists.

Above sandwich: Piet Mondrian; Below sandwich: Jasper Johns

Georgia O’Keeffe

Mark Rothko

Jackson Pollack

Damien Hirst

Gustav Klimt

Christo

Marcel Duchamp

Andrew Guenther is an American artist who lives in New York. Born and raised in Wheaton, Illinois, his work deals with the concepts of the evolution of the self, life and spirituality, and  the evolution of culture. Guenther’s work will appear in a group show entitled MIE: A Portrait by 35 Artists at Freight and Volume, curated by Nick Lawrence and Mie Iwatsuki. The opening will be on Saturday, January 21 from 6 – 8 p.m.

Craigie Horsfield is a British artist who works with photography, video, sound, and installation. He recently added tapestry to his repertoire, using imagery from his photography and film stills. His work can be seen at his upcoming show at Marvelli Gallery, 526 W. 26 St., NYC, opening February 2.

The Poetry Club Art Space is a new underground gallery in the basement of a Bed-Stuy apartment, open to all mediums of art, performance, music, and catering specifically to young and emerging artists. Curated by Melissa Godoy Nieto, in collaboration with María J. Baez and Liliana Zúñiga from Mexico City, their current exhibition, No Sombrero, focuses on the interplay between embracing Mexican culture and the pursuit of contemporary life. All the works all use a Jacob’s ladder toy, commonplace in Mexican households, as their canvas and are all functional. A selection of the 70 works on view are shown here.

New York based painter Jay Gaskill creates wildly hypnotic paintings that bring together abstraction, pop culture, and design. By combining colors that are harmonious or perfectly ill-fitting, his pristine paint handling allow the images to keep you moving through them at multitude of speeds, triggering emotional associations or sonic echoes. He will be exhibiting at Hunter College’s Times Square Gallery as part of the Fall 2011 Thesis Exhibition.

As our fifth guest blogger, artist Mathew Cerletty presents the highly absorbed and abstracted paintings of Italian realist painter Domenico Gnoli. Gnoli, who passed away at age 37, was mostly overlooked before his death in 1970. Though he still remains a somewhat obscure Post-War Italian painter, a few of his paintings have trickled into the auction houses, widening the audience for his work. Both artists share a hyper-focus on seemingly banal subject matter, Mathew’s own paintings can be seen at his first solo show, Susan, on view at Algus Greenspon, 71 Morton Street, NYC, through December 17.

German painter Neo Rauch’s current show at David Zwirner titled Heilstätten,  roughly translates to “a place of healing”. At the center of the show stands a bronze Athena-like figure, arm outstretched, carrying an owl, chest eerily buldging with the heads of men. The same woman, painted as a fountain at the center of a town square, is hidden in a much larger painting,  easily overlooked in the complex mapping of ochre walls, lavender coated men collapsing, and towering trees. The woman-with-owl motif presents itself a third time in one of the show’s largest painting titled Aprilnacht or April Night, where two figures, one male, one female, both hold and examine large ominous birds. Only his is a fragment, a lone head; hers is complete. Her hand, clothed in a green sleeve, five fingers outstretched with the quiet command with which a mother would hold a baby, is placed, curiously, at the dead center of the painting. Heilstätten will be on view until December 17 at David Zwirner Gallery, 525 W. 19 St., NYC.