Changethethought

Betsy Walton is a Portland, Oregon-based artist for hire who quit her job to become a full time artist in October of 2006. Apparently, she has never looked back.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Betsy Walton, Painting, Portland

Eleanna Anagnos is an abstract artist with a keen grip on her color palette. There is a tangible physicality combined with a vortex sense of motion in her work. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

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Painter Amy Casey has generated some really unusual paintings. The thing you notice after getting over the interesting imagery and composition is the really controlled color palette.

written by Christopher | tags: Amy Casey, Art, Painting

Ted Vasin paints some highly unusual imagery that I wasn’t entirely sure how to interpret. Although I like all of it very much. Beautiful use of color.

Via Human Resources.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Moscow, Painting, Ted Vasin

Jonathan Bergeron refers to his work as crapalicious but it is anything but. The lush colors, texturing and attention to detail in his work is really beautiful. The subject matter and approach might be referred to as ‘lowbrow’  but the craftsmanship, technique and end result is definitely ‘fine’ art in my opinion. I’d hang that crap on my wall.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Johnny Crap, Jonathan Bergeron, Painting

Jim is a ‘skull artist‘ pure and simple. I think a lot of people are over the whole skull thing but there is something more contemporary about Jim’s art that seems to draw more influence from ancient and even pagan ritualistic art.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Jim, Sculpture, Skull Gallery, Skulls

I am really amazed and impressed by the silicon sculpture work of artist Sam Jinks. It is a little frightening too look at but there is something deeply contemplative and haunting about it. The singularity of the isolated figures draws you into serious thought on the human condition.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Sam Jinks, Sculpture, Silocon

There is a strange and unusual body of work in the Flickr-folio of Danilo Base-V. You can also learn a little more by visiting his website or his blog.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Danilo Base-V, Drawing, Illustration

“Maya Bloch’s paintings focus on the depiction of human figures – group portraits in round-the-dinner-table scenes – alongside single portraits of women, some in a forest environment. Anna Veronica was the original, now almost forgotten, name of Bloch’s mother, before she was granted a new, Hebrew one, upon her arrival in Israel at the age of five. Its employment does not point to a preoccupation with the artist’s biography, but vice versa – to a kind of metaphorical ghost symbolizing for her the possibility of otherness to inhabit a familiar space and the possibility of melding real and fictional biographies. This doubling is expressed in the way Bloch produces the subjects of her portraits, which are based on photographs she culls from newspapers, other people’s family albums and the internet; she ‘harasses’ these family photographs and ‘imports’ them into her own world, in this way resuscitating unknown identities and making up other people’s emotional worlds. But even though she relates to the photographs’ characteristics by borrowing their compositions, she does not search for a realist context but rather dredges up the dark psychic situations that lie behind the photographed figures’ representational ‘poses.'”

Got a tip on this one in my email. All I can say is wow. Seriously beautiful and contemplative body of work centered squarely on the human condition. Just beautiful all the the way through. You can see her work at her website or see much much more in her Flickr pages.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Maya Bloch, Mia In The Sky, Painting

Brandon Jan Blommaert has some really strange bus fascinating art happening in his Flickr pages. I have seen and even posted some of his animated gifs to Dropular before but never realized he had a Flickr-folio where it is a little easier to take in the body of his work as opposed to his website. His personal website is still worth hunting and pecking through for his strange and unusual animated gif work.

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Kate Banzai is an illustrator/screenprinter/collage artist who has a large volume of really colorful and highly composed work in her Flickr-folio. She also has a website but the real magic is happening in her Flickr pages.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Illustration, Kate Banzai, screenprinting

Artist Ryan Browning is based in Baltimore and has some really interesting work consisting of hex-like wooden structure sculptures as well as what I guess I would describe as psychedelic surrealist landscapes with a strong emphasis on geometric structures. All and all there is some really striking images in his body of work that definitely provoke the imagination.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Baltimore, Painting, Ryan Browning, Sculpture

Tim Hon Hung Lee got in touch today to let me know he had updated his portfolio with some new works. His line work is really amazing. That is no easy task to replicate with a pen.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Illustration, Pen and Ink, Tim Hon Hung Lee

Madrid artist/photographer Gabriel Sabando has some really unusual work happening throughout his portfolio. All of which is hard to take your eyes off of.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Gabriel Sabando, Madrid, Photography

“Brazilian design graduate Jorge Lopes Dos Santos has developed a way of making physical models of foetuses using data from ultrasound, CT and MRI scans.”

Wow. This is really creepy and bizarre. I am not entirely sure how to even interpret this. It’s a whole new kind of art. You can read up on this one-of-a-kind project at Dezeen.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Jorge Lopes Dos Santos, Sculpture, Ultrasound

I stumbled across this amazing collection of carefully curated art in the flickr account of Sarcoptiform via But Does It Float. There is just some really amazing work happening in the collection. I was crazy inspired. I cannot wait to pick up the pencil tomorrow. Some of the work made my brain want to jump out of my head.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, But Does It Float, Painting, Sci-fi, Surrealism

James Mitchell is based in Portland and has some really cool artwork in his Flickr-folio.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Illustration, James Mitchell, Nas Chompas

I am really really digging the black and white psychedelic/metaphysical collage work of artist Nicolas Malinowsky this afternoon.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, collage, Metaphysics, Nicolas Malinowsky