Eric Daugh uses thumbtacks to make large portraits of people. Sort of along the lines of
Christian Faur’s crayon art we posted a while back, Daugh uses a 3D round object, thumbtacks, to create a pointillist piece of art. These large pieces look realistic from far away but are very abstract up close.
It’s obvious whoever wrote his description/bio owns a thesaurus:
Using push pins, the innocuous, adhesive, near-detritus of our everyday Eric creates the view from here. His work is that rare arial perspective of the faces we see everyday, the vistas of common personalities, the longview of the human. You can stand up close, squint into the vacu-formed industrial sheen of some common object but such a perspective only argues the atomic structure of his work. As we pull back one quotidian reference morphs into another, objects become portraits, the pedestrian becomes sublime. Molecules, pixels, cultivated fields all speak to his medium. He starts with a flat 5 color cadence, all just rhythmic loops, then relationships form, a singularity shifts into subtle congress and depth and tones appear. We step back further and slowly, as if through the portal of some remote ship we suddenly recognize. That’s us. That’s me. His grids are pictoral DNA, a seemingly simple sequence that when sounded in its complexity reveals the honesty of the unreapeatable person.
I wish artists’ bios simply spoke human. Anyways, the work is awesome, and I want some of it on my wall, and that’s all that really matters.
See more of his work at his site, including a mega-cool high-resolution-zooming-thingy which lets you zoom in and out to view the piece, or the tacks: www.daigh.com.
These collections of contemporary art and photography are the publishing work of J&L Books. This New York / Atlanta based non-profit publisher produces the work of rarely seen or unpublished contemporary artists. J&L and its volunteers only produce two to five new books each year. They also offer collections of limited edition prints. If you follow the New York Art Book Fair you might have already come across them. According to their site they are making another appearance this November. See more at J&L Books
I’m not sure how long ago this occurred, but I just recently happened to stumble past it and thought I would share. American artist 
