painting
at the end of my dream this morning I was in a strange modern city...seemed like tokyo.. and each store had this sort of conceirge window on the street with a bit of an canopy overhead. They text messages to you as go by on lcd screens that know what you are looking for and doing according to who you are and and in what appeared to be a prestigious area.. I entered one of them...spoke to the fellow behind the counter, he looked over my shoulder, I turned around and Ronald Reagan grabbed me by the arm and says something to the extent of not in this one...and the one line I thought of this morning is "haunted by american dreams"
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mixed media
I find that the natural world is filled with the most interesting shapes and color combinations, from which I take most of my inspiration. If you look closely at any of my art, you'll see that (as in nature) there's a lot of detail.
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photography
My paintings and drawings confront the viewer with surreal faces composed of disparate geometric forms. Though largely improvised, each is carefully honed to evoke the psychological presence of its subject. I hope that in meeting the gaze of these alien faces, with their invocations of psychic fragmentation and wholeness, the onlooker will find some part of his or her own self reflected.
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painting
Jee Yun Lee's work combines the thousand-year-old artistic traditions of her homeland Korea with the confrontational edge of contemporary life in New York, where she is currently based. Her oil paintings, lavish and jagged landscapes and still lifes, have been described as fraught with the pure pleasure of painting. It is perhaps Lee's watercolors that most clearly display the freedom, favoring the immediacy of accuracy over the starkness of reality. For the past several years, Lee has been transferring her visions to the digital realm, exploring then boundaries of the medium while maintaining and reaffirming her own artistic ground.
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digital
Jeroen Goulooze uses digital tools to create art that is inspired by classical topics and themes. He (re)use artistic elements and story elements that have been used many times before (in the west anyway): the villain, the beast, the hero, the odalisque, the saint, the apocalypse, victory, defeat, love, longing. The interpretations are his; the elements are old, ages old. Those elements are part of the cultural language he was born into. His way of working started with a series called 'new saints', depicting modern saints that could be alive today, or in the future maybe. Is that Earth in the background or some other planet?
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digital
George Smith is a 25 year old abstract digital artist and has been creating for 8 years. George's surreal vision of the world portrayed in his work is filled with overlapping layers of lines, photos, text, and abstract shapes that all come together to form a unique and original point of view. He describes his heavily photo-manipulated work as "controlled chaos" that combines his own photography with 2d and 3d elements.
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digital
Idle Time Software is screensaver development project founded by Cathy Davies, a Los Angeles artist who has been making art in the form of free internet downloads for several years. Idle Time is founded on the belief that screensavers are a hybrid form of cinema and installation (pun intended) - a unique and underexploited medium.
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digital
The first time, about an year ago, I knew how to put a big circle on the template using designing program, feeling like a kid given a new pair of scissors and papers, I also started my ride and riot, artistically speaking. Not without the aesthetic impact of M. C. Escher, William Morris, abstract impressionism, and the vision furnished by formal training of physics and engineering, I tried to make the most out of my instinct and passion, giving my artwork a brand new language that needs no translation but full of interpretation through geometry, pattern, abstract and structure.
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digital
I rip, tear, mutilate, deconstruct and arrange photographs and other scanned materials digitally. I'm fickle with my subject matter but certain symbols and objects do present themselves often enough to be thematic: crosses, grass, trees, animals, people, water, clouds. These things have usually been manipulated to the point where they're barely recognizable. Despite this, my work strives to convey a sense of story or underlying narrative.
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digital
Chris Thompson is a digital artist raised in NJ, but living and working in Philadelphia. Chris's unique aesthetic combines his learning from Lehigh University with his current occupation as a stained glass artisan. The work consists of corrupted, compressed, and manipulated digital pictures that become something Chris calls "pixelism," a portmanteau of pixel and pointillism. The finished images are very textured and most easily enjoyed by zooming in and exploring the world of the digital file. For this reason, the full resolution files are licensed under a Creative Commons license and available for download for free from his website.
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drawing
The work of Bri Hermanson, a freelance illustrator living and working in Manhattan, covers a wide range of media, but she primarily works in scratchboard or pen & ink with
digital color. Focusing on line quality and mark-making while creating highly conceptualized imagery, even her commercial work has a deeply personal element. Lately, she has also been branching out into completely digital pieces based on her scratchboard marks. She grew up in a small town in Northern Oklahoma, surrounded by her family's ever-growing herd of horses, which continue to be one of her favorite subjects to draw.
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digital
Kainophobia's passions for color and surface appeal to many collectors and enthusiasts of contemporary art. His digital creations impart a deep sense of mystery and imagination upon the viewer. Each piece is a rich experience in texture, energy and color.
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mixed media
Pablo Perez studied experimental psychology at The National University of Mexico (UNAM), and works as an independent artist since 1998.
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digital
I believe art transcends all language and is the ultimate means of preserving a generation, and even an age. If done write it can even influence the direction civilization takes in moving forward. Take the Renaissance for instance. This movement in art and human complexity brought us from the dark ages into the modern times, and no movement to date has impacted us in such a global and irreversible way. I don't expect to become the next DaVinci, but I do hope to bring the subcultures of the world to the forefront of accepted society through the print industry and the Graphic Design medium.
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digital
With her Digital Glass Series, Dawn explores light and surface, refraction and reflection. Each piece appears to float and sparkle like tangible candy on its stark black background.
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drawing
Mark Wasyl is an LA based artist/designer who brings you his own brand of Super Sexy Vector Style. Clean lines, bold colors and sensuous curves are the characteristics that make up his artwork. Mark's preferred subject matter...PINUPS of course, infused with Attitude and Devilish charm! Mark's influence and inspiration is heavily driven by music, art, pinups, design and cultural diversity. From rock posters to Bettie Page...Black Sabbath to Low-brow art...its all evident in his creations. Keep your eyes open for the evolution of Mark Wasyl's work. This is just the beginning of his journey.
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digital
Bufalo Club is the assumed identity of toy designer & character artist Brian Quinlan from New York, who currently lives and works in Tokyo Japan. Brian's artistic background is based on commercial pop art and entertainment from the 1980's in America. Since working in the mainstream toy industry for almost 10 years Brian has created uncountable kid's toys. During this time he started the Bufalo Club project as a means to convey his true artistic vision through character art and three dimensional interpretations of those characters in the form of scultures and limited edition action figures. Brian's primary medium is drawing (pencils, pens and paper) and computer generated or enhanced graphics.
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digital
Technology is ubik in our lives, dig it? Rather than balk at our impending mechanization at the hands of innocuous electronics, I choose to celebrate it. Some may look down upon my situating the gadgets we all covet above friends and neighbors, but those are the squares that will also tell you humanity is worth saving. So get hep to the scene already and embrace the bits and the bytes because they're the wave of the future and I'm already hanging ten. Later, alligator.
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drawing
Mary Cassidy is a born and bred Jersey artist who enjoys the little things. Easily entertained and willing to share a laugh. She studied illustration and graphic design in Philadelphia and is still hanging on to her traditional drawing roots. She surfed the wave of .bombs and held on to her skills hoping one day a tidal wave of work would come her way. Her blend of traditional and computer design have put her above the button pushing industry of today. Mary likes to live art. Photos, computer graphics, and sketching keep her busy. During the day Mary works for a printing company creating print and web design. She is hoping one day PC and MAC will unite.
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digital
Phil Scroggs feasts on large helpings of caffeine and pop culture to feed his creative fire.
His digital illustrations are created in Adobe Illustrator. But, he sometimes also incorporates textures and elements from Photoshop. In his analog art, Phil uses acrylic paint on canvas and found objects. A whimsical style gets the point across in an accessible way.
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