Fine art and Photography make wonderful bedfellows in the vintage industrial art category. The endless variety of subjects in this category makes it a great hunting ground for industrial, corporate and domestic decor.
Much of the fine vintage industrial wall art produced by Erin Ashley would look equally at home in a boardroom or family room. She uses restful pastel and neutral color washes with hints of antique industrial processes and details. A regular feature of her work are the typeset-style numbers which seem to ghost away into the corners and borders of her paintings, “Venice Beach 1” and “Distant Limit” are two good examples. The numbers seem to be reminding the observer of times long passed.
More suited to an industrial setting is the vintage industrial wall art of Ethan Harper. Ethan’s collection of numbers evoke an atmosphere of bone crunching labor and long hours in dimly lit factories. They are executed in functional, contrasting tones that seem to avoid any sense of subtlety.
Industrial design, machines and factories from the early 1900s are the topics explored by Rob Sturcke and Marco Fabiano in their vintage industrial art pieces. Marco’s two works, Coffee Blueprint IV v and Coffee Blueprint I v would make a great contribution to the atmosphere of either a coffee shop or someone’s kitchen. Using mostly monochrome photography, Rob’s work revisits long forgotten factories and heavy machinery, superseded by modern technology and now left to rot.
