Mark Khaisman: Brown Tape Art
Who says ya can’t make something cool with translucent brown tape. Mixed media artist Mark Khaisman layers several pieces of tape on Plexiglas panels to create these mesmerizing rustic illuminations with textures much like a knife painting with broad wide strokes. Very cool, time lapse like retro, and mysterious… I’ll have to make some myself. (I love tape).
I’ll post a bunch of his pieces after the jump.
Mark Khaisman webpage
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January 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
wow, those are awesome.
I now have all new ideas for my glass front door.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:02 pm
yeah, for sure, i’m starting a test set this week..maybe using masking tape instead..or the reverse…scotch tape on black material..the more layers, the brighter.
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
That’s awesome. I saw an article on a design student that used brown tape to renew damaged furniture. If I can find the link I’ll post it.
January 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
ingeniously mixed media! love the work
January 29th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I have seen electrical tape portraits before, but this is nicer in my opinion. The gradual shading is gorgeous, and I’d love to see these in person as they are lit from behind in these photos.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
These are beautiful. Does the artist apply tape over plexi with the photo image directly beneath? I also wonder if he’s concerned about the short life-span of the medium. The tape will deteriorate with time under almost all circumstances.
January 29th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Cool idea! Very creative!
January 30th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
GOOD GOD that is cool….really great idea with stunningly beautiful execution. How are you shaping and the tape….. and are you shaping it before or prior to application to the surface.?
Either way…..that it a serious eye opener man….
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February 1st, 2008 at 2:05 am
very cool
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 am
Those would be nice even if done in a traditional medium. The packaging tape makes them all that much better. Very impressive… in skill, concept, presentation, and aesthetic.
BTW, you may want to not trust your spellcheck too much. I think the word you wanted to use in your description of the work was “mesmerizing,” not “memorizing.”
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 am
andy, thanks for the note…fixed! 😉
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
I like the titles especially. The artist watches a lot of old TV shows. Like Perry Mason and those b/w dramas. The titles totally make the pieces come alive.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
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February 5th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
spetacular
March 25th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
this is a great idea, i wonder if it can be applied the same way on photoshop with transparent tape-shaped color layers.
well. i should say this is inspiring.
very coll and creative idea. god bless you
April 5th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I absolutely love it.
April 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
omg this is so sick!
April 20th, 2008 at 10:19 am
dear Mark,
please contact me if you are intrested in publishing your work in a new design magazine in the middle east Egypt.
Great work man
April 29th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Wow – and YES to the front door idea – my apartment work studio is on a city street, I would love to do this as the light could come from either side – though I must say, to do this correctly, one has to have great drawing skills, since the ‘strokes’ with tape do just that – they draw the image and shadows so well – such a nice job too! great stuff….keep sticking it to us! lol
May 7th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Excellent !!!
he is a craftsman verily !!!
May 9th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Cool! I especially love the lady in the raincoat. Something about raincoats with all those lovely folds. It is also neat because of her shadow on the wall.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Well I must say this is something that’s probably much cooler in real life with real tape than if done digitally. Why? Because I noticed how freakin awesome he made the fabric! The folds and stuff he put in the tape is one of the many ways the characteristics of the medium lended to the end product.
So creative!
May 13th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Great! I used the brown tape for a once to with another technique.. It is amazing to see what you create with them..Happy to discover your fantastic paintings. Viva brown tape!
May 14th, 2008 at 4:17 am
woooooooooooooow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
very gooooooooooooooooood
you are realy artist.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Really great to look at… original idea & love the end result!
May 28th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Wow! that is truly amazing! I can’t believe the details captured just using various layers of the tape! Very cool.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Very nice
July 4th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
excellent art, i like it.
July 19th, 2008 at 11:43 am
How cool is this, I’m only 12, and I can only dream of managing to complete one piece of artwork like this. When did you start doing this? I found this sight using stumble upon, trying to find some good backgrounds, I think I found quite a few!
thankyou 🙂
July 29th, 2008 at 1:40 am
It’s an incredibly creative use of a common household object to make a wonderful work of art. That is so great, I wish I could do something like it!
August 7th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Its beautiful.The old masters often used to do whole paintings in brown then put the colour in afterwards. I wonder what other brown stuff i could use to make pictures- apart from the obvious.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:32 am
BRILLIANT !
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
i absolutely hate using packaging tape in general as it is hard and awkward to use, but this artwork has given me a whole new perspective and appreciation to this “horrible stuff”. – bravo on your most amazing art pieces !
September 4th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
WOWeeeee! Some brilliant work produced there! What an imagination!
September 8th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
impressive!
September 15th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
very, very interesting.i love it
September 20th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Saw you in Phila @ that gallery in the apartment building… the chairs and curio above… was thoroughly impressed… but the portraiture? Shit man… pure modern genius!
Thank you!
October 15th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
How unbelievably good.You are truly gifted and try also the paint with brush on canvas.Good luck.
October 25th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
new interview with Mark Khaisman at http://www.urbantactics.de
November 1st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
ya ndn hepiniz yabanc? konu?uonuz ya hçbi?ey anlamad?m neyse ….
December 2nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
omg so much tape so little time…..must start this minute
January 30th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Beautiful! Creativity and ingenuity at its best!
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HYPER AMAZING STUFF!
Mark Khaisman , a genius.
January 7th, 2012 at 11:25 am
love tape-art!!!great work!!
December 7th, 2013 at 3:08 pm
I totally like Mark’s artworks…they look stunning. Some compare his work with the tape art of Max Zorn, but I prefer Mark’s style!
There is another great tape art crew from Berlin called TAPE OVER https://www.facebook.com/TAPEOVER
They are doing inspiring tape art using duct tape. They even do tape styling on people…
February 8th, 2016 at 4:48 pm
Very cool!
I also like tape art, which is made with duct tape only – here are some great artists, too:
BUFF DISS http://buffdiss.com/
Aakash Nihalani http://www.aakashnihalani.com/
TAPE OVER http://tapeover.berlin/