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16 December 2011
Scott Radke is an artist from Cleveland, Ohio who specializes in sculptural works involving animal and human hybrids. Scott’s creatures often come across as grotesque, sad, and resigned beings that evoke in their viewers a sense of sinking despair and gloom. However, one is drawn to these creatures for their apparent innocence and understated desperation.
The artist takes his inspiration from...
02 December 2011
Yosuke Ueno is a pop-surrealist artist from Tokyo, Japan. Giant white swans, colorfully dreamy landscapes, and wandering doe-eyed females are only some of the themes in Yosuke's bright and symbolically rich paintings.
“I’ve been creating many characters. That is what our Japanese Gods have been good at since the ancient times. Japanese are people who respect and adore all the things around...
11 October 2011
Marius Coetzee is a professional safari guide and photographic expedition leader travelling the world in pursuit of the perfect image. The photographer considers himself fortunate to be able to see some of the most incredible and fascinating animal behavior while pursuing his love for nature, photography, and wildlife. Coetzee’s photographs have appeared on billboards, magazine, calendars, and...
08 July 2011
Jeremiah Ketner is a Chicago-based artist who paints alluring and dreamy young women within exquisitely colored environments. The artist holds a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design and an MFA from Southern Illinois University.
Jeremiah is inspired by Japanese pop art and his paintings often depict playful, sprite-like characters that add to the charm and keep things from getting too...
18 June 2011
Ben Heine is an illustrator and photographer from Brussels, Belgium. The artist has studied painting and sculpture, and is self-taught in the discipline of drawing, which is the style of expression Ben chooses to express himself most through.
Love, happiness, friendship, nature, and illusion, are some motifs that can be observed in Ben’s art. The artist’s most notable work is his Pencil vs Camera...
06 May 2011
Canadian artist Mandy Tsung was born in Banff, Alberta in 1984. She attended the Alberta College of Art and Design and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2006. Her paintings center around ravishing, pop-culture inspired female subjects, and are generally composed on wooden panels.
“The process of painting is very inspiring for me as is the complexity of the human face and how it portrays...
04 May 2011
Alison Jardine is an artist from Dallas, TX, USA. The artist’s work deals with light and nature, and psychological as well as physical wilderness. Lines representing the concept of the photon moving through time and space, and linear representations of tree branches are also featured in her work. These motifs strive to capture the beauty of our natural world, and give the viewer a sense of...
19 April 2011
Erik Johansson is a photo manipulation and retouch artist from Sweden. The artist employs a special technique to digitally modify photographs that he takes himself, and has attracted wide popularity for his unique and innovative photographic work. These photos have been successful in producing an awe-inspiring reaction from people who have seen his work worldwide.
The photographer takes about a...
04 March 2011
Josh Keyes is an artist from Portland, Oregon. Josh works with paintings and installation art that are often seen with a mixture of natural wildlife references and manmade objects and environments. His trademark style incorporates the use of three-dimensional cross sections, similar to scientific illustrations that are found in textbooks. These scientific illustrations that are blended with...
28 February 2011
David Walker is an artist from London, UK who paints portraits of unknown and inspiring women, using only spray paints. His unique style that stands imprinted on walls across the streets of London has been noticed internationally, inviting the artist to showcase his art in galleries across the world.
The artist’s rich and multi-colored works give out a sense of beauty in defiance. “I think the...
08 February 2011
Ana Bagayan is a pop-surrealist artist from Los Angeles who earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Her work explores images of adolescence as metaphors for larger themes of ethos, culture, and wonder. She paints younger children, generally resembling dolls. The figures are usually seen interacting with animals or otherworldly...
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03 February 2011
Nick Gentry is an artist and painter from London best known for his portraits that are made out of recycled and used floppy disks. Nick has used other old-fashioned media such as cassettes, Polaroids, and VHS tape paintings for his paintings, but floppy disks are his favorite medium and the artist uses them to represent the collapse of old media in the new world. The British artist is...
17 January 2011
Jesse Reno is a mixed-media painter living and working in Portland, Oregon. An entirely self-taught artist, Jesse creates symbols and shows beings becoming and evolving from their environment - transforming from man to animal and back again.
The artist is stimulated by indigenous and primitive societies, and terms his art “neo-primitivism.” The materials he uses in his art include acrylic paint,...
10 January 2011
Frank B. Gonzales is an artist from Queens, NY. USA, and has been in the artistic profession for the past six years. The artist was born in Mesa, Arizona where he underwent four years of training under master instructors Darlene Swaim and Jim Garrison. His outstanding ability was rewarded with a scholarship to the Laguna College of Art and Design.
The main subjects in Frank’s art are birds,...
27 December 2010
Larry Louie is an optometrist and documentary photographer based in Edmonton, Canada. As a teenager, Larry aspired to be a National Geographic photographer, traveling the world and photographing different places and cultures. His photography took on a new dimension when he became a volunteer optometrist with Seva Canada which is a part of VISION 2020, the global initiative that aims at...
19 December 2010
Gabriel Moreno is an illustrator, engraver, and painter based in Madrid. The artist got his degree of Fine Arts from the University of Sevilla in 1998 and started work in different design studios and ad agencies across Andalusia soon after. In 2004 he moved to Madrid and was on his way to making it big. For a good part of his career, the artist focused on creating art not for his clients but for...
22 November 2010
Alyssa Monks is an artist from Ridgewood, New Jersey, and earned her M.F.A from the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001. The artist’s paintings explore the tension between abstraction and realism, using different filters to visually distort and disintegrate the body.
“I want to explore how far I can push both the real and the abstract at the same time, into one...
14 November 2010
Joshua Petker was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1979 and received a BA in Western History from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. While pursuing a degree in History he maintained a growing interest in the arts that developed out of a fascination with graffiti which Petker started creating at the age of 15. After studying abroad in 2001 at the Lorenzo de'Medici Institute of ...
11 November 2010
May Ann Licudine is a lowbrow illustration artist from La Union, Philippines and did her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Visual Communication from the University of the Philippines College Baguio ner. After studying art for five years, May started to take commissions from clients worldwide.
The artist's works reflect her strong Japanese influence and show girls with long dark hair and pensive faces,...
08 November 2010
Peter Adams is a travel photographer from Wotton, UK and is well known for winning the coveted Travel Photographer of the Year award in 2003. Peter, who has visited every continent, and nearly one hundred countries across the world considers himself a self taught photographer and was drawn into full-time photography by his own natural curiosity about the world.
Peter’s travel photographs...
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