mixed media
Zoltron is an enigma. A self proclaimed 70's teen idol, Zoltron's wave hairdo and unique California accent epitomized a certain level of cool, which inevitably paved the way to his success as a graphic designer, poster and street artist, pretend photographer and vinyl sticker aficionado. Zoltron is the founder and creative director of the infamous self-titled design company as well as notorious silkscreen sticker printing company, Sticker Robot. Zoltron's artwork has been shown across the country, published in magazines, both nationally and internationally and was once called, "Pretty heavy" by a transient who was urinating on a dumpster, as Zoltron walked by.
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digital
We live in a time were everything will be filmed....
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drawing
For the past couple of months, Justin Emerson has been drawing a different "Lunchbot" on his wife and step-son's lunch bags each day. He warns: "This is what happens to underemployed dads/husbands who mostly work from home. Clever creativity or cautionary tale?" See the entire Lunchbots series at http://disposabledrawings.wordpress.com
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photography
I began as a painter, majored in graphic design and became enamored of photography along the way. I synthesize this journey in my work, using my camera to frame things
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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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digital
Josh Ellingson started making art regularly with self published comic books, gradually moving into commercial art. These days, Joshua contributes illustrations regularly to various national and international publications.
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artists
Liz Caruana is an up and coming fashion and fine art photographer in both the United States and Canada. Her work is lush and ornamental.
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painting
Chaos manifests itself alongside form in my work. Chaos is powerful in that it is beyond human control; specifically, it interests me in depiction as catastrophe - as the uncontrollable and random force of natural cataclysms. I enjoy the emergence of fragments of imagery in relation to a destructive force - they become reduced and ephemeral, they are representative of the momentary and transient. However, according to the scientific study of chaos, it is the minute and transient that manifest as larger factors, further down in the equation, in the study of matter.
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painting
I'm not gonna go into some esoteric treatise on what art is, or is not, for me.
I've been drawing since I could hold a crayon at 2 years of age.
I've been making paintings and illustrations for a long time as well, most of them involving the computer lately.
I hope you enjoy my use of color and line and I hope that the joy and satisfaction I get from creating these pictures comes through.
Thanks.
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painting
I solve problems.
I think abstractly.
I make decisions.
I work intuitively and iteratively when creating art. I place a line to paper and allow it to inform the next line. As form develops, I continue down the path that is indicated by what is on the sheet. By observing human behavior, asking generative questions, and analyzing information, I experience how an iterative process leads to comprehension of complex data and ideas. I use my artistic sensibility to present the research findings in unique and compelling ways, and I'm pleased that my expertise in creating art, mixed with my research skills produces a harmonious balance.
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photography
Alternately, a landscape painter, an abstract painter and a photographer. I've focused myself more seriously on photography recently, printing on a large scale and searching for venues to show my work.
Right now, I'm only interested in the loose, blurred and rough-looking image, perhaps because in sensation they most resemble the paintings I've done. I'm greatly aided in this approach by shooting through the viewfinder of a vintage Kodak Duaflex from 1950. Most definitely not a state-of-the-art camera, It's lens is covered with dust and scratches and it's distorted reality closely mimics my own.
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design
Simone magurno is an Italian graphic designer born in 1984 in Genova.
Self thaught in graphic design he has been working as a freelance for various international clients.
His digital illustrations have been featured worldwide in publications such as IdN, Computer Arts, Deleted Scenes, Semipermenent Book 2008 and in the most renowed portals across the web (Newstoday, Nice To Meet You, Digital Abstracts, Netdiver, NewWebPick)
He has also been awarded with a mention of honor in the first Netdiver digital competition in 2006.
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mixed media
My name is Andrew E. Yang, my nickname is Stitchmind. My work focuses on the idea of personifying mental emotions into cute, ghostly-yet-tangible creatures that follow humans around. The characteristics of these creatures pair the pleasant with the disturbing in an attempt to illustrate the balance of positive and negative experiences people go through everyday. Most of my art is created using an obscure method of layering sliced vinyl sheets and stickers on glass or plastic. I currently reside in San Francisco while my work has been exhibited and sold all around California and Montreal, QC.
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digital
Popular culture is the subject matter and material of my work. As a scavenger of hidden signs and symbols, I find my materials glimmering on the margins of popular culture, both literally and figuratively in scrap heaps and gutters. Advertising detritus, television stills, comic book and video game imagery: in a digital collage these materials can be combined to reflect the process by which meaning is created in our culture, to draw out the hidden connections between seemingly unrelated imagery. The spirit of my work is an ecological one: to recycle discarded images, to recombine them inways that broaden everyday experience, everyday images, into something beautiful and unexpected.
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photography
Eddie Ostrowski is a freelance photographer from San Fransisco Bay Area. He began taking photos in the mid-eighties, and now photographs subjects ranging from dark nudes to abstract arts. His photos have a visual imagery about them, added to by his tasteful additions and his fabulous artistic expression.
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painting
Dylan Sisson draws and paints wall-eyed curiosities with big teeth. He finds inspiration for his fine art while doodling on receipts, napkins, and bar coasters. In his paintings, he brings this menagerie to life. The subjects chosen by Mr. Sisson are things that are at once compelling and repugnant, things that blend the unfamiliar with the familiar. Mr. Sisson currently resides in San Francisco and operates out of his small studio. His work has been included in gallery shows along the west coast.
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photography
I am a working society photographer with a keen interest in the relationships between people. My attention is further drawn by the notion that inanimate objects can be positioned in such a way as to give the appearance of real relationships. That allows viewers to project whatever voyeuristic, sentimental or other imaginary experience they want onto the objects - in this case, toys.
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mixed media
I had a curiosity about what insanity must feel like. Later I got to find out. The only reason I would reveal this about myself is, by the grace of God I have been given the gift of being able to come back to a point of responsibility and service. I try to communicate the impression that can only come from seeing something you don't understand, and have no frame of reference. In conjunction with this novelty, on a root human collective conscience you might, recognize these abstract forms as comfortably familiar as a door knob in your hand.
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painting
One of the things people always say about me is that my handwriting is too neat. The other thing they say is that I'm probably an obsessive compulsive. I cannot disagree. As a kid I always colored inside the lines. Never going beyond the lines, over it, or banging into it; just touching up against it softly and neatly. These days my condition, my compulsion towards simplicity and perfection serves me well. The lines you see in my paintings are not masked. They are all done free-hand, painstakingly and lovingly. I paint because I am obsessed with the idea of simplifying.
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