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My work explores a culture that is permeated by consumerism. My work is informed by the drawing and design techniques used in fashion illustration. The paintings I create incorporate photography, collage, and ideas and images from popular culture.
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Golden Boy is working as a Graphic Designer but his destiny is to paint and make his world real place where he could live without costume
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Sometimes one needs to bring to light what they are too conscious to mumble, too enamored to share, too fearful to release, even in the dark
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My name is Nicholas Skally and I paint abstract examinations of color, form and texture. I truly feel my inventive use of mediums can be seen as a natural evolution of modern painting.
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I am working from a basic curiosity about life: our culture both past and present and the things that separate us and the similarities we all hold and that unite us in a larger experience.
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My paintings typically depict post-industrial landscapes and draw on the aesthetic traditions of minimalism and realism. The work has been referred to as "dark pop" or "strip-mall Morandi." Grounded in reality, the paintings nonetheless abstract the ordinary: the everyday world is made transcendent and strange - and is imbued with an ethereal and melancholy beauty. The sharp juxtaposition of technology and romanticism are evocative of the moment - and environment - in which we find ourselves presently. My work contemplates the paradox of this harmonious and destructive co-existence.
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What would happen if you took classic 1920's cartoons and Ren and Stimpy episodes, chewed them up with shades of primary colors, and then horcked the whole thing onto a canvas? Nothing as good as Stephen Tompkins' work, for sure, though that's exactly what his pieces remind me of. It's like an abstract celebration of cartoon body parts in a roiling pop orgy. And yet they still remain sparse enough to seem muted. Now I have the urge to watch cartoons. And porn. Although it's pretty difficult to know if that's caused by Tompkins' work or just standard Tuesday morning libido.
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Jared W. Brown is a self-proclaimed nerd-artist living in Denver. He grew up on a steady diet of G.I. Joe and Transformers, and a myriad of other things they're making terrible movies out of these days. His work consists of cartoonish robots doing human things like going to work and dating. He also has paintings of Star Wars and 80s cartoon characters. His site, RobotsOnCandy.com, showcases his most recent work.
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My aim is confronting the viewer with a down to earth vision on a glamourized world .To bring the message across i often use cartoon-like characters , bright colors and black outlines, trying to make each painting stand as a logo.
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I am working with landscape in painting to explore new ways of representing space and form. I am also interested in using psychological content and color to investigate the impact of nature, and natural space on the mind. Individual works describe scenes that are sometimes bright, lush and flowering, or sometimes dissonant, murky and foreboding. Tree branches twist and writhe, color turns acidic, and sky flattens to meet form and then deepens back into space again. A shifting psychological mood pervades the group as a whole, moving between realms of magical fantasy, sparkling beauty, anxiety, and the sinister and mysterious.
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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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Jordan started selling his paintings at Vancouver's Stanley Park and was so well received, he began painting full time in 2002. His paintings capture in the human figure "the tension between the suffering and hope of the human condition". You can buy his prints online from
Charmingwall
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I'm preoccupied with the extraordinary nature of ordinary experience. These works represent two albums of images, "Suburban Manuscripts and The Ashes". Each borrows elements of illuminated manuscripts to present the contemporary landscape as a fragile habitat shaped by human expectation and longing. Suburban Manuscripts features my immediate surroundings in Santa Cruz, California and The Ashes embraces a larger theme of abundance and ruin. These paintings are mixed media on various paper, including very large formats. For many years I ‘ve worked in oil on wood panels. I am currently working on a set of short videos based on Haiku poems.
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Royce Bannon is a born and bread NYC artist whose infamous Monsters can be seen pasted on doors and walls throughout the five boroughs. As a member of the
street art collective the Endless Love Crew Royce has participated in various live painting events group art shows and solo art shows throughout New York and the world. Currently Royce is the art director for Diamond Headz NYC: a new clothing line promoting the life and culture of socially conscious city kids. On any given day you can find Royce painting monsters, silk-screening t-shirts, spraying stencils, or slapping stickers up on various spots in New York.
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Painting is the tool for spiritual experiences, processes and revelations.
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ROTATE / REPEAT / SCALE / MOVE / SUBTRACT is a series of abstract works on plywood I've created over the last four years; in it, I try to deliver the purest aesthetic experience with the simplest, and most economical means possible. Physical aspects of my work are born entirely of low-fi, accessible materials that can be purchased at any Home Depot. I restrict myself: to thin-but-sturdy sheets of plywood (cut, in a narrow, cinematic sweep of 84" x 24"); to a palette of six colors (carefully chosen) of average acrylic Latex house paint; and to tightly rendered graphic compositions which obliterate a typical reading of 'background' and 'foreground.'
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My body of work is mostly founded on shapes, figures that I try to rediscover and to give them a different meaning. I make use of decorative elements in many of my works at the same time trying to keep in focus the subject that I am using. The use of ornamental motifs is mainly to counterbalance the shape/non-shape relation. One of the things that defines my artistic personality is the unfinished look of my works, the raw quality of the paintings which are the original sketches.
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"Through my paintings and drawings, I attempt to depict the ordinary in an extraordinary way. My work is an abstract reflection of my memories and experiences presented through colors, shapes and textures. Throughout my art-making process, my focus is to develop a piece that both inspires and challenges the viewer." Jane Hugentober 2009
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Aaron and Ayumi K. Piland are the fantastical magical duo known as APAK. they are a husband and wife collaborative art group who live among the furry conifer giants in a little cottage on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. They create artwork together as a way of exploring beauty, mystery, and magic of the universe as well as expressing their love for life and each other. They play, learn, discover, and grow just like children do. Their prints can be found at
Charmingwall.
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