Photography
I am an artist living in New York City. I love photography, but also work as a writer and graphic designer. I publish a small fashion magazine called Debonair. In addition to the arts, I love spending time with my friends and family and am a die-hard baseball fan. My ambition is to direct a feature film.
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Sculpture
Sophie Kahn’s work addresses the erotics of death in the still image. It owes its Victorian-futurist aesthetic to the interaction of new and old media, or, in other, terms, the digital and the analogue. Her sculptural and imaging practice is a hybrid one, combining new advances in 3d scanning and 3d printing with ancient technologies such as bronze casting.
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Painting
Although he is best known as the world's greatest cheerleader painter, Joe Heaps Nelson is a dedicated chronicler of bulldogs and interstate trucking. He is also proud to continue the 17,000 year old tradition of mammoth painting, and hopes to spark a resurgence. His deadpan, pop-flavored, post-ironic approach is the result of millions of years of evolution. He aspires to be worthy of the title "gentleman farmer." He is undaunted by the inevitability of death and the ultimate futility of all human endeavor.
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Painting
My goal is to create calm, beautiful, and sometimes depressing scenes, atop an undercurrent of confusion, rage, terror, fascination, love, wonder, and even jest - all based upon a random combination of obvious themes, and obscured meanings - for others to interpret, or project, as they will.
No matter the concept, or the underlying meaning, I present a great amount of activity, drama, and even chaos, in the most tranquil and serene settings and poses - I aim for each piece to present something new to each viewer with each and every day.
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Painting
My first inclination towards drawing came in my high school years. I later progressed into oil painting when I started to teach myself from any cheesy (or not) how-to book I could get my hands on. I love color, and am forever inclined to paint people in realistic, but slightly forced, distressing situations.
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Painting
Chaos manifests itself alongside form in my work. Chaos is powerful in that it is beyond human control; specifically, it interests me in depiction as catastrophe - as the uncontrollable and random force of natural cataclysms. I enjoy the emergence of fragments of imagery in relation to a destructive force - they become reduced and ephemeral, they are representative of the momentary and transient. However, according to the scientific study of chaos, it is the minute and transient that manifest as larger factors, further down in the equation, in the study of matter.
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Photography
For the last 15 years, married authors and photographers, James and Karla Murray have been documenting the streets of New York and Miami, publishing three best-selling books on the graffiti scene, Miami Graffiti (Prestel Publishing 2009), Broken Windows (Gingko Press 2002) and Burning New York (Gingko Press 2006). While photographing graffiti, they also began faithfully documenting the generations-old stores and shops of New York's neighborhoods, resulting in their critically acclaimed book, STORE FRONT-The Disappearing Face of New York released by Gingko Press in 2009. James and Karla live in New York City and Miami with their dog, Tabasco.
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Street Art
Billi Kid is an emerging street artist determined to find his voice while leaving a mark on both the oversaturated global and cyber landscapes. A life-long doodler, art enthusiast and design junkie, his work blurs the lines between graffiti, pop culture and art. Never too busy to look, feel and listen, his collaborative works with artist from around the world have been celebrated in both the media and
street art communities, Take a close look, smile at it, tear it or cover it with something new. From his hand to the streets at large.
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Painting
Art does not need to be deep. If I like a subject, I paint it. If I like a color, I use it.
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drawing
...a sassy mix of traditional and digital media. My work is whimsically detailed and painstakingly created. Why have it any other way. After three near death experiences I am happy to be amongst the breathing. Cheers!
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mixed media
Shane Harrison is a native New Yorker and RISD alum whose illustrations are featured in numerous publications including New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The San Francisco Chronicle.
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Painting
Stencils on paper, cardboard, wood, wall of New York, Lille, Brussels, London ...
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mixed media
The skateboards hand painted by artist Shai have been from coast to coast, and more recently, reached international recognition.
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Photography
In his paintings, Benjamin Long has been combining images, often on separate panels, for many years. This aesthetic has been carried over into his recent photos, in which images are placed side by side into a panoramic-format picture wherein the individual elements relate to and support each other visually and conceptually. Using vintage cameras which require a slower, more thoughtful approach to photography, he shoots on various types of film: transparency, negative, and instant. His work is an ongoing effort to reconcile disparate elements such as structure and chance; personal information and an aesthetic connection to the viewer.
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Painting
For many years I have liked the look of film stills, and my experience in animation has made me much more aware of how the single can represent the whole.
Conceptually the series has evolved, conveying more personal interpretations of the stills.The juxtaposition of personal memories on cinematic imagery is a theme that I am continuing to develop.
Splitting the frame into top and bottom is one of the most interesting aspects of the work. While making the subject matter more dynamic, it also represents the passage of time and more literally the film frames frozen between one and the next.
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Other
My work is a natural and inevitable extension of my chosen lifestyle, which includes meditation and veganism. All of my images are intended as a tribute to the divine - a playful expression of affection for life and the often surreal or silly forms it takes. The world around us is one of splendor and grace, but certainly also one of fun abandon. In observing many of our animal friends (particularly those of the ocean) as well as fruits and vegetables, we find ample proof that God has a seriously cool sense of humor.
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Illustration
We all communicate through words as words translate into visuals. My visuals are my words.
I believe in drawing not as mere media or style, but rather as the ultimate way to deliver ideas; a combination of self-expression with an essentially bold interaction with the viewer.
As a visual artist as well as an idealist, I comprehend almost everything through subtlety and humor. I play with universal ideas as I watch them mock my existence.
I ultimately simply continue an infinite dialogue on a blank piece of paper.
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Photography
My pictures are mostly of things that seem out of the ordinary or of things that don't look like they belong. Unusual things are what can set the mood or the tone of the atmosphere, and I like to show people things that they'd normally overlook. As I take my photographs, I remember that the small details are often the most interesting.
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Painting
i don't know what to say, if it's in my head, i try and get it out.
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Gawker Artists
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