Dan Bergeron has been creating subversive, photo-based street works for almost a decade. His work addresses social and political themes and sometimes only attempts to re-contextualize the physical space it utilizes.
His ‘Face of the City’ project is one of the projects you could file under ‘re-contextualization’ but the images are striking and even more so considering the occupied space.
Painter Kris Lewis studied Illustration at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, but now resides in Los Angeles. He freezes the vivid emotions conveyed by the subjects within his paintings and uses a muted color palette in order to maximize the viewers focus. The end result is striking imagery.
Painter Luke Rudolf has discovered a magic formula utilizing the interplay between simple geometry, organic paint strokes and use of color to devise images that you just can’t take your eyes off of. It’s almost as if you expect something to materialize from beneath his work.
Since I last dropped in illustrator/artist Martine Johanna has been busy updating her portfolio lately with both new drawings and works on canvas.
I wrote about Meggs unique artwork a long while back but only recently stumbled across his Flickr-folio and not only rediscovered his amazing work but found a lot of work that I didn’t see at his website.
I am really a fan of the surrealist landscape paintings of Rick Leong. You can see more in his Flickr-folio. There is something almost akin to old Japanese prints happening within some of the imagery. I would love to see his work in person.
Brooklyn-based (yes Brooklyn again) artist Erika Somogyi has managed to combine a sense of human spiritualism with references to nature. The end result of which are some stunning paintings with a bold use of color.
Australian Artist Justin Lee Williams has finally built a home on the web.
Sam Kaprielov studied fine art in Leningrad. He has since worked in portraiture and commercial. He only recently began exhibiting his striking work that deals in nostalgia and often references what could only be described as dreamy memories of war.
Scottish born artist Kirsty Whiten has some exceptionally amazing paintings and illustration work in her Flickr-folio. The above image is an actual oil painting. Stunning and contemporary.
Artist Steve Kim is preparing for his upcoming MFA show and has posted new work to his website. His strong use of color, human subject matter and unusually arranged compositions combine to create some truly unique and beautiful imagery.
Alexis Rockman has exhibited his work at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. It is easy to see how his unique imagery that is a mishmash of post-apocalyptic science fiction, pop culture, science and biology would strike a cord with many a viewer. It definitely struck one in me.
Who out there knew that Blu had published a book with Studiocromie of their mind-boggling drawings that was hand printed and signed by the artist. And why wasn’t I told before they were sold out. Damn.
Jules Arthur is an artist and illustrator with an old world Rembrandt-esque eye for capturing the soul of his subjects. The end result of his efforts is pure beauty.
“Born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska, Edward Ruscha was raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where his family moved in 1941. In 1956 he moved to Los Angeles to attend the Chouinard Art Institute, and had his first solo exhibition in 1963 at the Ferus Gallery. In 1973, Ruscha began showing his work with Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. He continues to live and work in Los Angeles, and currently shows with Gagosian Gallery.
Ruscha has consistently combined the cityscape of his adopted hometown with vernacular language to communicate a particular urban experience. Encompassing painting, drawing, photography, and artist’s books, Ruscha’s work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily. Ruscha’s early career as a graphic artist continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematic approach.”
Ruscha’s work has been out their circulating the typographical ether for some time now but has never been mentioned on this site. You can still see his influence on a lot of the young illustrative typographers working today.
Australian painter Jon Cattapan has lead a rich and experienced artistic life that has informed his work with figures materializing from ghostly orbs of color.
Brooklyn-based artist Vince Contarino has some amazing use of color happening within his abstract drawings, paintings and collages. Beautiful work.
