photography
The goop of a freshly-peeled Polaroid gets on my hand. I look up at my subject and thank them for the time they're giving me...For allowing me to come into their life, for coming into mine. It's another story heard, a friend made, a collaboration felt. We're closer, we know each other. Our notions of each other prior to this moment are out the door. It's my hope that this is what will unify you and I, this world. That and a frosty Guinness ...Love you, folks.
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painting
Evan says "most would cringe at the idea of scratching or sanding something they spent hours painting, but that's my favorite art - creating the appearance that this wasn't made in the 21st century." And he's a self-taught artist, no less. You can view his work on his website at www.evanbharris.com, and you can buy prints online from
Charmingwall.
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painting
I was raised by a television in suburban America. One of my first memories is the colors of the cereal aisle flashing by as I rode in my mom's grocery cart I'm more likely to notice an ad on the side of the highway than the forest behind it.
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mixed media
Tessa Scott grew up on the green pacific islands of New Zealand where she trained in painting at the University of Canterbury and later design and illustration at the Sydney Design Institute, Australia. Scott's illustrations celebrate her love of colour combined with her interest in psychology & people. She creates intriguing figurative images with a charmingly surreal quality. Tessa Scott has an MA in Creative Writing and is currently writing and illustrating a collection of fairytales for adults. She has lived and worked in Germany since mid 2006.
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mixed media
Katie Sokoler AKA Color Me Katie is a specialist at working with strangers. She promotes human interaction through her work and captures the results of humans in their natural habitat when mixed with fantasy or fun. In both her recent projects, the Brooklyn Thought Bubble Project and the Shadow Project, Katie stages creative traps and lies in wait to capture special moments on camera.
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painting
As I unwillingly stumble into adulthood I am learning to build walls, to shut up childish tendencies; to conceal passion or fear in its unruly excess; protect my precious image. Yet these are the very things that make me real. They toss and turn and pull us in all kinds of directions. The things that writers scribble into words and composers pull out of the notes of a piano. But instead, the image of a figure, existing in a space, in order to summon a metaphor, is what I contribute to the reliving of something organically human.
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painting
I am driven by an exploration of wordless inquiries with long tendrils. My paintings are an attempt at answering these pleading questions of the gut. I enjoy linking things that seem unrelated and employ relationships in form and a sense of fluidity in this expedition. I utilize undulatiation to convey the odd outgrowths and knotted dreams that convolute us. I'm inspired by the interaction between man and myth, biology and spirituality, function and meaning.
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digital
Particularly interested in using only the black and white palette to create illustrations, leaving some rooms for people to imagine and create meanings behind the images; And Le Avventure del Cane Picio is my ongoing illustration project, which I use the illustrations to record things happening around me and inspiring to my everyday life.
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drawing
Music, art, movies, fashion, or some visions I get while walking, can be my inspiration. I love doing figurative illustration. Compositions, colors, and nuanced face expressions are important to deliver the atmosphere of the person or the event.
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painting
In this work I re-imagine myself and my friends as characters in a two-dimensional world. Some of the portraits are on oval boards, or incorporate an ornate frame, suggesting a sentimentalized vision of the subject, much like a cameo or an old photograph. Each image does not so much represent a friend as recall her, envisioning her in a timeless, reverent space. Painting a portrait allows me to distill into a single image innumerable experiences, thoughts and emotions that relate to a particular person. In this way the paintings are totems or avatars, portraits of gods from a personal mythology.
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digital
I am an Italian illustrator specializing in children's illustration, classic fairly tales, magazine illustrations, advertising illustration and more.
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painting
I'm a self-taught artist and have been painting for about 15 years now. Though I do love color, my favorite is to paint black and white images.
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drawing
Cole Gerst is a graphic artist, illustrator, animator and painter in Los Angeles, California. Originally from the deep south of Albany, Georgia, he grew up surrounded by many outsider and folk
artists, including his grandfather, a respected local craftsman. As a kid, Cole enjoyed many of these artists' fantastical stories about faraway lands, or conversations with Higher Powers. He was inspired by their ability to create art that revealed the world as only they saw it. He now heads up the firm, option-g, which is a multidisciplinary design firm which provides illustration, graphic design, art commisions and animation to the music and entertainment industry.
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mixed media
My dollar bill collages, inflatable sculptures, and other highly conceptual works – reflect upon the confluence of money and power throughout history, and in particular considers current US attitudes that have filtered down from Westward Expansion and notions of Manifest Destiny. The result is a political and cultural critique that encompasses not only the shifting cultural changes that have taken place within my lifetime but also those throughout US history.
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painting
Real and imagined, unseen or unrecognized universes coexist all around us. Sea creatures live in the deep ocean; bacteria live in the body; insects make a tiny home within a home; cells form structures to make a human. A small bit stands in for the greater whole, and exists perhaps without the knowledge of the larger piece. I have an interest in biomorphic shapes, pattern and fragile beauty.
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painting
I play with paint, mixing brushes and knives to create the topography of gesture. What emerge from this experience are not abstractions, but realist paintings: vintage kitchen appliances, scrumptious trappings of weddings, modern Italian scenes. I am interested in re-contextualizing these subjects, conveying their iconic natures while displaying strong indications of their modernity. Everything I paint has an energy that I strive to bring to the surface through emphatic edges, vivid colors and heavily textured, gestural brush strokes. I live with my husband, Lee Goldberg and dog, Ringo in our
Newton, NJ home.
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mixed media
My work is a reaction to moments in which I was forced to question my understanding of reality. It is an investigation of the connections between seemingly disparate phenomena. I often find myself in awe of serendipitous moments or paralyzed by coincidental tragedies that have unfolded in a fated synchronicity. Here, imagination triumphs and gives birth to the binding threads of connectivity between otherwise spurious relationships. My images flaunt far-fetched connections prolonging these moments of possibility in the face of inaccuracy and absurdity.
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painting
I started painting when i was kid, mostly monsters and explosions. Art gave me new meaning once again and renewed my vigor. Ever since i got into graffiti letters and typography has been a focus of much of my work. Though my love of typography and color i try to make deeply layered paintings that require more then just a glance to judge it. I do believe it is a pop cultural imprint of my generation.The things i have been painting for the lost couple of years i would classify as Modern pop art with a comic-graffiti twang.
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painting
I like comic books and ancient mythology, mostly because I think they're the same thing.
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painting
I have supported my art as a hairdresser for many years. Recently I have been working on a group of paintings based on the magazine clippings brought to me as proposals by my clients for the look they are going for when they come to my salon. More often than not the style is not really possible to recreate on the subject. Wrong length, wrong texture and wrong color…but to them, the photo of the model or actress is what they want to emulate and I do my best to transform them! I am calling the group Salon Girls. Prior to this group of paintings I had always stayed away from painting hair, opting to keep my bodies of work and working life separate.
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