The Annenberg Space for Photography:Digital Darkroom-Brooke Shaden

Brooke Shaden's photographs look like stills from a film or a painting from another era. Each picture creates an imagined story of a time that feels very far away. Shaden uses Photoshop techniques so seamlessly that things look surreal yet feel like they belong.

For those of you that are lynda.com subscribers, Shaden has a tutorial on how she creates one of her photograph- from capturing the image to compositing and retouching.

Art LA Contemporary|Peter Stichbury

Stichbury renders his subjects as distant, cool and slightly surreal. Though if you look at the last painting, the real person (Zach Klein) looks pretty lifeless in that photo.

Art LA Contemporary|Matthew Brandt

Guess what Brandt used to create these works?

It's guuuummmm! How did he do that? Did he melt the gum and then silkscreen with it? That's my best guess. Check out his other works created with edibles and other materials here. I especially like the image of honeybees created with honeybees.

Art LA Contemporary|Thomas Glassford

Glassford has used anodized aluminum to create a lot of his recent work. I like that he creates a quilt-like painting out of a very masculine, cold, architectural material like aluminum siding.

Art LA Contemporary|Ian Burns

This contraption uses light bulbs and magnifying glasses to write out this mantra. I love how low-tech it is...he even uses a tupperware box to hold the wires in!

Art LA Contemporary|Holton Rower

These colorful poured paintings look like some crazy topographical map. Check out the video below to see the process of how these are created.

Art LA Contemporary|Adam Belt

This piece is called "Down the Rabbit Hole." At first it may seem merely to be a suggestion to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. However when you look at the rest of Belt's work, he explores ideas of space, telescopes, light, the big bang, planets...etc. His piece feel more cosmic in context of the rest of his work.

It felt like looking into a bottomless hole in the exhibition wall...bottomless hole or infinite space...same thing i guess.

Check out Adam's site to see more of his work.