sculpture
Copper Pipe Dreams is a company and an idea that has grown out of the artist's love of creating unique copper sculptures as gifts. The very first of these sculptures was made as a gift for his soon to be wife - it was a man holding out a heart. Who could resist such a romantic gift?
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photography
The Hollywood Sign is an international icon that is recognized by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It symbolizes not only Hollywood, it also embodies people's perception of California, the film and entertainment industries and the dreams of everyone who has enjoyed movies and television
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painting
My work is about extremes, about what is to be gained by going too far. When I first begin to put an idea into form, I ask myself how to make it "more-so". Can the color be more intense? Can the lighting be more dramatic? Can the pose be more contorted? Can the subject matter be more surprising? Can the composition be more dynamic? Can the premise be more surrealistic? But it's not a question of maximalism for its own delightful sake, in the end the real question is whether my visual choices serve the story. I'm not interested in garishness, I just simply believe that anything worth doing is worth doing all the way; that no real progress gets made without pushing boundaries.
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painting
My paintings result from a progressive dialogue, between stages of strategy, analysis, and intuitive choices. My technique engages the optical qualities of my clear "canvas," through which the pigment is viewed, resulting in work that has the visual qualities of copper enamel or art-glass with the spontaneity and scale that painting allows. I do not paint backward…but I do paint on the back side, building, layer by layer, to a conclusion. This body of work fuses compositional and calligraphic elements from my Asian heritage with color and textural aesthetics from my Western upbringing
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illustration
A native Californian, Melissa Contreras grew up dreaming of swimming with dolphins and painting circus posters. She tried to become a marine biologist, but got tired of smelling dead cats in class. She stopped painting because she thought she was not good enough and spent years designing catalogs so she could eat. Melissa started drawing again when she realized not drawing was bleeding her heart and slowly killing her. She began exploring her own creative ideas again, at first doing crafts, and more recently illustrations and painting. Foolishly following her heart, she continues to dream and draw and hopefully, one day, swim with dolphins.
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photography
I primarily take pictures of narratives - fictional people in a fictional environment. I love lighting and use it to shape the emotion of the image. I think the frame and environment are just as important as the subject itself, and I spend far more time preparing for a shoot than actually shooting. I shoot the moment right before the ending of a story because that is when there is the most tension.
photography
A hot bed of post art school angst has assisted in developing the highly stylized photographs by Catherine Clay. Collecting images everywhere from delicate nature images to vibrant, lush images from Pride parades to the newly developing children's market her artwork celebrates the intriciacies of what life has to offer.
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illustration
D.W. Frydendall is an artist who lives in Los Angeles. He usually makes strange art for strange people.
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painting
Moira Cue is an expressive transmedia artist with a focus on the semiotics of female iconography. She has over 1,000 paintings and is collected throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has had several solo multimedia exhibitions and is in major celebrity collections.
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mixed media
All hand done artwork using an exacto blade, glue sticks and found ephemera. Bring the hand done back and sidestepping the digital.
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illustration
Born and raised in Venice, California, Tansy Myer grew up amongst the eclectic artist community of the Venice Boardwalk. Growing up in this strange and inspiring world has infused her work with color and energy. Working as a freelance illustrator and designer, she has most recently illustrated the award-winning campaign for Rocket Dog shoes and her clients include Island Def Jam, Target, Mattel, ABC and more.
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drawing
Misty moonlit nights filled with fantastic creatures and heroes of old. Kythera of Anevern specializes in bringing fantasy worlds and mythical creatures to life, capturing distant lands and forgotten shores in vivid digital color, meticulously detailed ink, and graphite.
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photography
I am a Los Angeles based artist working with photography and video. I was born in Reno, Nevada and saw art as my only option in this life.
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mixed media
Antonio DePietro is a talented, one-of-a-kind artist. A great entertainer. Antonio DePietro specializes in rap record design, slow jam mixtapes, portraits of important Americans and keeping the finger on the pulse. DePietro is also the creative director of the The New Sicilian 'zine ... It's hard to keep talking about Antonio DePietro in the 3rd person, but Antonio DePietro will do his best so that this bio seems professional.
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photography
I want a visceral experience for the viewer of my photographs. I want to tap into the viewer's emotions and harness instinctual responses that create connections both culturally and personally. My goal is to translate reality into my own vision, show the viewer what they see in everyday life; more often out of the corner of the eye as mental flashes rather than actual focus, and bring these 'taken for granted' occurrences to a halt and to the forefront. I am interested in the visually mundane aspects or our culture and if they can create a subliminal recurrence in the human psyche.
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photography
I suppose I like to shoot in duststorms because I keep finding myself in them. Kneeling by your bike, sand and soot and smut in your eyes, bracing against the wind, beneath the sky, it is often difficult to tell if one is at the brink of apocalypse or the start of a great adventure. I hope the more fantastic elements of my work encourage a view of the world on the brink of a tremendous, new, beautiful, and strange journey into the unknown. I am interested in the desert as a stage for the mystical, for fascination and awe.
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painting
I have a sense that I am manipulating the energy inside the painting as opposed to just painting on the surface.
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other
I like simple. Simple like punk rock. Simple like Detroit techno. Simple like the blues. But simple is never as easy at it looks. And so it is with minimalism. I'm not one for dogma, so I skip the purist approach. Repetition, variation, ready-mades, the grid... they're just the tools, but never the rules. And if I color outside the lines? Oh well. That's what makes it mine.
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mixed media
Matt Burlingame was born in a small town in Michigan, where he learned to be a man from an unwholesome combination of television and Catholic school. Through the focus lent him by these social institutions, and the looming haze belched from Detroit's automotive factories, his vision began to come clear. Brutally honest yet laced with a winking sense of humor, his art depicts the depravity of society in its most blatant forms. To understand his work is to understand a certain uneasiness within us all. Laughing at its message means he has achieved his goal. Burlingame languishes in Los Angeles. His dioramas are all handmade, using no store bought miniatures.
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