Changethethought

Shepard Fairey explains his work and position in an interview with Gestalten. And yes the sticky issue of copyright does rear it’s head over the course of the interview.

written by Christopher | tags: Giant, Graffitti, Obey, Shepard Fairey, Wheat Paste

Painter Eric Yahnker has posted some new work to his website, maybe not his most cerebral but still at the level of craftsmanship that his audience has come to expect. His work still continues to inspire.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Eric Yahnker, Painting, Psychedelia

Brothers Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez, aka The Date Farmers, are the shiznit of the art world at the moment, blowing up all over the place. The duo incorporates found objects, commercial ephemera and Mexican folk art that is a bit of a mash up of Basquiat and Barry McGee. There’s a cool video of the duo in action over at Current TV. They really are (or were) date farmers from Indio, a dusty farm town to the east of Los Angeles.On exhibit now at the ACE Gallery in LA through March.

written by Mike Slane | tags: Art, date farmers, indio

I wasn’t entirely sure what to make of Mexican pop artist Ivan Crush’s work at first. It’s repetitive but deliberately so and I can’t quite make out if it’s serious or poking fun at itself. It feels very urban and fashion orientated but their is also a subversive layer of cynicism just under the surface. It takes a while for it to sink in but when it does the hook sets a little deeper.

written by Christopher | tags: Fashion, Ivan Crush, Mexico, pop art

Vincent Pacheco who calls himself Mudchicken has updated with a lot of new work at his interesting website and portfolio. It’s more a spilling of ideas than anything and seems to function as a kind of archival assembly of sorts. The piece above definitely spoke to me.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, collage, Los Angeles, Mudchicken

There are some strangely divine things in the Flickrfolio of Brent Hildy including photography, collage and a screen print on wood that I’d be happy to hang on my wall.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Brent Hildy, collage, Screen Print

Travis Stearns has carved a special place out of my artistic center that sits somewhere between Hunter S. Thompson, Dave Carsen and Art Chantry. It’s a bit Gonzo but absorbing and after you’ve been absorbed you start to become engaged. You have to keep up on him because he is a shape shifter constantly putting himself on a limb whether it be in type, illustration, graphic design or photograph.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, I am Mint Condition, Photography, Travis Stearns

Wow, what exactly to say about the sublime work of artist Aron Wiesenfeld other than his skills are off the charts. His work is an open invitation to the viewer to insert their own narrative as to what exactly is happening within his drawings and paintings. His charcoal drawings are absolutely fantastic.

written by Christopher | tags: Aron Wiesenfeld, Art, Charcoal, Drawing, Painting

Australian artist Jonathan Zawada has updated his site with a new series of paintings for an exhibition at the Prism Gallery in Los Angeles. It’s a retro 70’s feeling collection of landscape imagery that was created through an extremely unique process described by Zawada himself below.

“An exhibition of large scale drawings and oil paintings at Prism Gallery, Los Angeles from December 16, 2010 – February 28, 2011. The landscape topographies were derived from graph data (displayed as printed mirrors on accompanying plinths), modeled in 3D and then oil paintings created from those 3D renders. For more information, visit the Prism website.”

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Australia, Jonathan Zawada, Painting

Clark Goolsby attended the University of California, San Diego and graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts in 2002. Since then he has developed an interesting style that employs mixing several mediums to create some striking abstract expressionistic pop art.

written by Christopher | tags: Abstract, Art, Clark Goolsby, collage, Painting

Oli-B is a street artist turned gallery artist who has some interesting and extremely colorful work in his Flickrfolio that seems to work equally well in both settings.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Graffitti, Oli-B, Painting, street art

Rhode Island based painter and illustrator Rich Pellegrino draws inspiration from iconic movie characters that he paints in Gouache capturing a frenetic energy and the personality of the character. Not surprisingly some of his works have already found their way into some private collectors collections (try saying that three times really fast).

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Movies, Painting, Rhode Island, Rich Pellegrino

Luigi Loquarto has in his possession a nice portfolio of both paintings and marker drawings that range from abstract, slightly dark, sexy to upbeat and downright playful. I’d love to hang some of these in my soon-to-be-born son’s nursery that I am currently putting together.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Luigi Loquarto, Marker Drawings, Painting

Artist Sylvia Ji is the person behind the paintings of beautiful women sporting Día de los muertos makeup and she has recently updated her website with new work from 2010. You can click to view the work fullscreen which I highly recommend to take in the details of Ji’s beautifully detailed work.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Fashion, Painting, Sylvia Ji

Eric White’s surrealist paintings reference retro culture in a way that might confuse you for a moment but then sink their teeth in and commence brain melting from there.

written by Christopher | tags: 50s, Art, Eric White, Painting, Retro

Amanda Nedham’s imaginative drawings and watercolors pay homage to classicism but draw inspiration from nature and dreams pushing them into the realm of the surreal.

written by Christopher | tags: Amanda Nedham, Art, Drawing, Illustration, Watercolor

Arian Behzadi is currently a Biological Sciences major with an emphasis in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior at UC Davis. He also hosts a weekly radio show on KDVS Radio and is also currently interning at the Same Day Surgery Center at the UCD Medical Center. All of this is happening while he is in turn creating wonderful little collages and commissioned design work making a rather unique personality.

written by Christopher | tags: Arian Behzadi, Art, collage, Design, Medicine

Unfortunately Adam Neate’s website is somewhat difficult to use but Today And Tomorrow along with Trendland have done a fine job documenting and providing large images of his ‘Flock Series’ of 3D paintings created for Elms Lester Painting Rooms. They definitely draw inspiration from Francis Bacon but pull that kinetic emotional expression into the realm of modern pop art.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Adam Neate, Art, Painting, pop art