Working out of Dare Devil Tattoo in New York, Amanda Wachob does some wonderful abstract work. She produces tattoos that blur lines, push boundaries, and meld fine art and body art. For me, her work is in a grand New York tradition of pushing (think Spider Web), and she’s got such a painterly quality to her heavy line. Additionally, I’m really taken by the conceptual work done in “bloodline,” a distilled water. Wachob’s site is really worth spending some time exploring. (via Today and Tomorrow).

Frame presents a minimal preview of what Emu will show at the Salone del Mobile in Milan next month. The Pattern Collection by Arik Levy, a designer best known for his furniture, is made of metal with patterned cut out. Devised with a slim profile, the chairs come in two colors (gray and red).

The collection is in keeping with Emu’s dedication to providing innovative outdoor furnishings.

The Salone del Mobile runs from April 14 to 19, 2010.

More images of the Pattern Collection after the jump.

Tamoe Hayama works in decals and stickers. The result are pop art explosions with rich texture. The newest work “FRONT” is above. Quite indicative of Tomoe Hayama’s style.

Check out the new work from Tomoe Hayama Artworks in full after the jump.

Now on view in Hamburg (at Craft2Eu, Eppendorfer Weg 231), Paperficial exhibits a series of objects blends the possibilities and aesthetic of paper with other materials, or transfers the visual qualities of those materials to paper based crafts. The artists displayed through Paperficial range as well in their chosen medium. Clara Breen, for example, is a French artist living in London who creates jewelry from found paper, pearls, and silver. Another exhibited artist, Astrid Keller, works in fine silver and gold sheets to form delicately folded vases.

More on Paperficial here. The exhibition runs through May 8, 2010. Some highlights follow.

A wonderful selection of interior shots by The Selby really succeeds in capturing the spirit of American artist Hunt Slonem. Born in Kittery, Maine, in 1951, Slonem attended the Tulane University in New Orleans and extended his education with a spell at the Skowegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His New York studio has no less than 89 rooms. Slonem’s obsessive nature and love of bright colors has clearly worked to make the massive space himself. His interest in birds, glass, rabbits, and even Lincoln is evident.

Really fun, unique and an amazing example of place as representative of owner.

A selection of the photographs appears after the jump, head to The Selby to see it all.

Art school mates Matt Small and Zac Walsh share their unique versions of urban art in “This is Us,” on view at Signal Gallery through April 1, 2010. I’ve chosen here to highlight some of Small’s paintings, which vary from figurative to landscape but share a “marbleized” technique that generates a distinct look and feel.

Small studied at the Royal College of Art and has shown at Black Rat Press.

Signal Gallery, 96a Curtain Road, London, EC2A.

More of Small’s work follows.

A brilliant combination of material, craft, and mass production in Christopher Chiappia’s Stool Chainsaw. The seat is formed through chainsaw carving, creating a rather organic form from pine. This then sits on three plastic feet, which in essence act as pedestal for the sculptural seat. Chiappia created the stool in collaboration with Kate Werble Gallery in New York.

Available through Moss.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s contribution to Philagrafika 2010 is a video installation of Japanese artist Tabaimo. Born in Hyogo, Japan, in 1975, Tabaimo (Ayako Tabata) focuses on communal space fusing traditional wood cuts and manga into her video imagery.

From Philagrafika -

Project Description for Philagrafika 2010 The Graphic Unconscious

On view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Dolefull House (2007) is a single-channel video installation in which a pair of giant hands systematically arranges western-style bourgeois furnishings in an oversized dollhouse. The rooms become increasingly cozy and orderly until the calm is infiltrated by an unwelcome presence lurking behind the walls and a seemingly mundane situation dissolves into a gory surrealistic scene. A giant wave washes everything away and the Sisyphean process of furnishing the empty house begins again. The western doll house acts as a façade behind which the underlying life-force tries to assert itself.

More stills from the Dolefull House (2007) after the jump.

Justin Bua is known for his “Distorted Urban Realism” and as one of the most active voices of hip-hop art. He returns home to New York on March 25, 2010, opening his first ever solo showing in the City.

Born on the Upper West Side, Bua grew up in the hip-hop scene, his initial forays into art coming via graffiti. Later, he attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Through his academic training, Bua began to formulate a distinct aesthetic drawing influence from the culture that grew with him (hip-hop) and tying his work to past New York painting legends.

Bua is also a successful commercial artist, having provided visuals for the likes of EA Sports.

His New York show is hosted by Pop International Galleries, 473 West Broadway, New York.

A selection of Bua’s work follows.