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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sculpture
I am an interdisciplinary artist with diverse interests in the fields of social history, scientific research and critical theory, which have greatly influenced my work. I often make use of sculpture, video, and lighting to create works that illuminate our notions of personal identity and community. I utilize my art as an agent for empowerment to involve viewers from all different backgrounds and communities. I was born in Lima. I live and work in New York City and Peru.
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painting
My paintings draw on both religious iconography and modern commercial design. I investigate humanity's tendencies to depict animals and to use them to sell everything from food to god. Early humans drew the beasts they hunted. Mythologies developed featuring holy creatures and anthropomorphized species. Today we have cartoons, mascots, and corporate logos. In each case, animal imagery is a powerful indicator of a culture's priorities. Are they simply a powerful marketing tool, or is there inherent divinity in animals? Are people compelled to represent beasts because we see something human in them, or because we see something animal in ourselves?
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photography
Los Angeles native Carrie Villines received her BA from UCLA and her MFA from Parsons. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and has been published in "ARTnews," The Associated Press and "Graphis." She lives & works in Bushwick.
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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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photography
Dustin Fenstermacher is an emerging self-taught photographer based in Philadelphia. He spent his formative years conjuring ways to escape Pennsylvania; ever since he picked up a camera, he never wanted to leave. Aside from capturing images in the first person and writing in the third, Dustin enjoys creating and consuming music. He dislikes driving but loves discovering new places. Dustin used to have a cat named Raygun, whom he adopted from a Siamese rescue agency. Raygun is 5 years old.
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photography
I am currently working on a series of contemporary photographic landscapes I call "area photography".
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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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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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photography
What's a girl to do when she gets too old to play with Barbies but also doesn't want to become one of those creepy Barbie collectors that line them up on their shelves at home? The answer - Barbie Fine Art!!!
painting
I find images and email them to master oil painters in China. This process leaves me free to focus solely on curating the world as I see it. And by participating in the global economy in this manner, I am making art in a way that aligns with my time and place. It also removes me from the burden of craft, as the craft of the painters is consistently excellent. By only dealing with images of strangers, I am able to further remove myself from the standard autobiographical tropes of contemporary art, at least superficially. The world is still beautiful.
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MY AIM IS TO TAKE THE DISPOSABLE AND OFTEN TRANSITORY MOMENTS IN LIFE AND EULOGIZE THEM. I'M INSPIRED BY ROCK AND ROLL, MODERN DESIGN AND SUBCULTURE ART. I AM OBSERVING AND ARCHIVING THE IMAGERY THAT HAS COME ACROSS THE VISUAL LANDSCAPE OF MY LIFE. BY RENDERING THEM TO A HIGH FINISH, I HONOR THE OBJECT. IN WHAT APPEARS REPRESENTATIONAL, I CHALLENGE THE VIEWER TO FIND THE MOMENTS TRANSCENDING THE SURFACE STILL LIFE. I GIVE A SECRET MEANING TO AN OBJECT WHICH EXPRESSES A FORM OF INSPIRATION AND/OR RESISTANCE.
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digital
Tale of Tales is game development company founded by
artists Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. Our goal is to explore the potential of the games medium as an artistically expressive form of entertainment. We make games that are experimental in nature and beautiful by design. We hope you will download and enjoy them!
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painting
If it's a car I'll paint it. If it's on four wheels I'll paint it. In fact, I'd even dig a John Deer tractor, so long as it had a touch of chrome and some sort of wicked reflection. My name is Greg, and I love cars. I am probably as crazy about your car as you are. I've been painting car portraits for over 15 years. I have painted everything from cars that would drive Ms. Daisy to Gone in 60 Seconds. So here it is, if you know your car is worth painting and you want a portrait of it, contact me. Remember, respect the car.
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photography
Mark Rubenstein has spent the last 6 years developing his multi-part series Common Place. A personal testament to the emotional challenges inherent within his "coming of age" narrative - set in a surreal world that uniquely encompasses what it means to grow up and examine life in a new way. The series presents a cast of characters that seem to manifest themselves as one being, uniting to embark on a grand journey.
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Sophia Peer's installations invite you to a familiar place disguised and re-organized, where day-to-day reality has been brattishly mangled into a fiction that better suits her. Using video, sculpture, and photography, Peer stubbornly forces herself and others into false intimacies, highlighting relationships that aren't there while making unlikely emotional connections. Peer re-creates a sitcom scene with her real family, demands free potato salad from a bodega cashier while in her underwear, projects rambling paternal life-lessons from a crystal atop a pedestal—all in the service of identifying absurd (and, somehow, recognizable) desires, fears, and delusions.
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Primarily a photographer, Steve Strawn captures the perspective of a shell-shocked eyewitness to futuristic battle scenes, as robots destroy cities, terrorize dolls and smash innocent plastic civilians. The staged scenes, which contain the imaginary narratives we enact as children, transform play into reality when photographed. The proximity of this work to contemporary scenes of war is frightening, yet beautifully gruesome in its use of lighting, framing, and form. Not unlike still frames from an action film, the works become stunning documents of the way in which we learn to battle at such an early age – against our siblings, our friends or our enemies.
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In her evocative artcard series, "Girls", Anne Sherwood Pundyk adeptly captures girls defining themselves as they shift from girl to woman. Based on the artist's "Girl Paintings", her fluid brushstrokes and the warmth of her palette evoke the limitless opportunities and unbridled freedom of youth. Pundyk's girls radiate self-sufficient strength and beauty. Their deliberate gazes and organic poise suggest depth of character coupled with a willful confidence that hints of future discoveries on their own terms, for "Girls" is a story without end, through which Pundyk proves herself both a skilled painter and thoughtful storyteller.
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Adam Stennett was born in Kotzebue, Alaska in 1972 and grew up in Oregon. He received his Bachelor of Art in English and Studio Art at Willamette University in 1994 and moved to Brooklyn to pursue painting. His third one person exhibition in four years, at 31GRAND, New York, depicted girls poised precariously near turbulent water and various medicinal products put to queasy, off-label uses. Stennett's work has been exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum and The National Arts Club in New York, Irvine Contemporary in Washington D.C., Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, Central House of
Artists in Moscow, Scope in London and 21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Adam Stennett lives and works in Brooklyn and is represented by 31GRAND, New York.
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