painting
My artwork attempts to take order, ordered systems and ordered patterns and shake them up. Nothing is perfect, even though things are modeled in perfect mathematics there are always tiny, sometimes microscopic, imperfections. Incorporating these imperfections into pure algorithmic systems creates a sense of order that we crave visually, but provides a warmer more natural feel that is unavailable through equations alone.
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photography
My portraits are an attempt to hold on to the beautiful and strange in the fleeting seconds between where we are and where we want to be.
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drawing
Born and raised in the City of Angels, JT is a expressionist with varied interests. Obsessions range from music, to charcoal, to DIY clothing.
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sculpture
I make representative sculptures befitting of their corresponding spaces and owners. I'm inclined to create pieces of nostalgic and ecclectic essence.
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painting
My art is a way to interact with my subconscious.
I usually understand the meaning of them afterward, when the image is finished.
It's like a dream that I need to decode and interpret. It's a therapeutic way of learning about myself and expressing my interpretation of beauty.
I choose acrylic as my preferred medium.
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photography
In my portraits, I try to capture the in between moments where my subjects seem to be both completely immersed in their interior worlds while also attmepting to connect with the outside world. The landscapes are attempts to picture these interior world and suggest dramatic events that are not described nor explained.
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photography
I am fascinated with capturing static scenes of silence...you will not find dynamic "everyday life" images in my portfolio. Projects rooted in stillness and tranquility are what I'm drawn to and create. Originally trained in traditional photographic technique, my process has devolved into a very organic and personal approach to my subjects. My tools are a Nikon DSLR system, my Medium Format TLR, a bulletproof Nikon FM, & my grandfather's 1930s 35mm Leica. Recent published work includes "Late Check-Out" - a monograph detailing my multi-year study of the abandoned Ambassador Hotel in the years leading up to it's demolition.
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drawing
Working primarily in ink and photograph collage, themegoman attempts to connect with a collective consciousness where greater depth can be drawn from his subjects. What at first glance appears whimsical and chaotic, often hides a deeper meaning for the artist or person being portrayed.
Commissions for portraits, illustration, and murals in the Los Angeles area are all welcome by themegoman. Performance, video, and animation projects are also in the works.
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photography
I am a graphic designer by day, musician by night and photographer by every other moment. My love, expressed through photography, is to capture serene moments which travel, by way of photons, through my plane of existence. I aim to awaken a sense of unrestrained quietness in moments sometimes filled with chaos. My photographs serve as a corporeal reflection of my memory. Deep in my heart lives a love for film and I will continue to use it until it no longer exists.
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painting
Gregory Hardin has been drawing for most of his life. After a 6 year stint in the Navy, he decided it was time to put his talents to good use. So he quit his job, relying on commission and good fortune, and decided to paint and write full time.
Gregory's favorite painting subject is women. He likes to paint from photographs many he finds on todays pop-culture/social web hubs and photographs that he himself takes.
He did not attend art school but was spurred on by a Design course at San Diego Community College.
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drawing
Mike Van Waes is an illustrator/writer/artist originally from Connecticut, but currently based in Los Angeles.
Working mostly in pencil, colored pencil and ink, Mike's hand drawn images typically explore expressive characters with a twisted perspective and/or sense of humor. Sometimes, however, a happy-go-lucky image sneaks its way in for sanity's sake.
Mike is also a screenplay writer hoping to combine his words and art in graphic novel form in the near future.
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painting
My favorite treasures of all were the 27 gesture diagrams for one-armed clowns. It was quite a collection. I called it Paraphernalia for Defending Myself in a Nightmare and it served me well until recently when the bag broke on 161st and Broadway in Washington Heights. There was quite a commotion at first, and perhaps I underestimated the power of 35 years of accumulated chaos. When the bag split open there was no mystery left just a dry heat and a grey light. The purse was no longer in there. I had outgrown it.
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painting
Gideon Boomer studied at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, graduating with a BFA in Illustration. He now works full time as an artist and children’s book illustrator. His work is a mash up of comic book culture, anthropomorphic animal hijinks, and lush color.
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illustration
FUBEAR and FUBAR
F.U.B.A.R. is an acronym for:
1. F*cked up beyond all reason.
2. F*cked up beyond all recognition.
3. F*cked up beyond all repair.
Its not a huge leap from FUBAR to FUBEAR.
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drawing
Meredith Hammon works with Fern Media, a workshop specializing in handmade and digital art.
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photography
It takes a conscious effort to walk around with a camera because you want to express something through images. How you want to see things, how you want to express things and how you want others to see it, are at your fingertips. You just have to try and make it interesting for yourself and the person looking at your pictures.
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painting
the aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, it is to remind him that he is already degraded. -eric blair
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photography
Atrophy is defined as ‘the degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse.’ Inspired by the incredible and sometimes frightening urgency for change in our world, Hazart envisioned a photo series which would characterize their feelings concerning certain socio-political topics. The character of Atrophy Annie is neither a single person nor idea; rather she is a physical manifestation of ideas and issues that are affecting our world. The messages and opinions expressed in the photo series are at points blunt and direct while others prove more ambiguous and layered, but they all seek to display the ways in which our world is decaying.
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photography
I enjoy the challenges and rewards of shooting with film. My guidelines are rigorous but not humorless. Make every shot count—the viewer expects no less. It’s a single-malt view of the world. Finally—I read widely, and am interested in everything except television and professional sports.
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painting
At the age of three, you might have found Robert sitting in front of his blackboard, careful drawing dozens of parallel white lines with the side of a chalk. This was Robert's first painting; the side panel of an air conditioner.
Since then, he's taken inspiration from discarded photographs, comic books, cartoons, films, and real life. He lives with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles, California.
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