Posts Tagged "Artist"

Absolutely frantic illustrations in pen by Mr. Robert Hardgrave. Most badass name ever? Probably. Unless you know a Mr. Murderkillsharkpuncher. You don’t.

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Beautiful art for a beautiful Friday. Brooklyn based, born in Seoul, and talented for days—that’s Dan-ah Kim for you. Enjoy.

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That is a Gucci bag made out of paper. For realz.

Au Yeung Ping Chi is a paper artist that has taken over his father’s effigy business, creating paper masterpieces fashioned after materials coveted by Hong Kong’s hip youth…that died young.

From Tiffany Lam and Zoe Li’s CNN article,

“The Chinese custom of burning paper offerings to the dead spawned the paper effigy business, in which scaled-down versions of items that are considered luxurious and desirable to the living, such as gold watches, cars, or even maids, are rendered with paper. The items are burned at gravesites in order to “deliver” them to the underworld where the dearly departed can receive them.”

No. Shit. Ok, I’m into it.

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Kaeleen Wescoat O’Neill is only a few months out of school at Art Center College of Design + she’s already built a portfolio bursting at the seams with some amazing illustrative watercolors.

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Check out Canadian artist Howie Tsui. His newest series, “Horror Fables” (looks just like it sounds) seems to combine elements of Japanese brush painting with dark, Western iconography for an unsettling effect. The collection of pieces created in 2008 + 2009 is also available for purchase as a book from Howie’s site.

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Meet Mr. Josh Evans, pen slanger extraordinaire. Josh’s site is crazy interesting to roll through as he couples each piece with a plain, straightforward, single sentence explanation of each piece. It’s more fun than it sounds. See: “this piece is about my fear of decapitated heads.” It’s the third one down, if you’re wondering.

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Yoskay Yamamoto is an up and coming artist from Japan who does some amazing sculpture work and acrylic paintings.  He is kicking off his third solo show entitled “Familiar Strangers” on June 12th in LA and I totally wish I could go.  This video is a well produced and shot teaser behind the scenes view of Yoskay doing his thing, creating some solid work.  Did I mention this was all shot on a Canon DSLR?

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John W Fesken is a painter, illustrator, scrawler, video artist, musician, installation artist, dioramist, poet, and all around Renaissance Madman.  He weaves fairy tails on window panes and in boxes using found objects and other ephemera, painting, burning, and scratching his stories from junk.  His pieces all tell a story, and his characters have histories and feelings of despair and hope.

I met John at the Artsplosure a few weeks back.  If you are a Triangle native, you are probably familiar with Artsplosure – an outdoor art market in Raleigh, mostly filled with run of the mill nature photography, paintings, and jewelry.  So naturally, I was drawn to the sore thumb of the event (I mean this in the most admiring / endearing way).  His booth was full of dark scenes of creepy characters in dingy settings and a table full of hilarious / gross / dirty magnets (I got one with Han Solo and caption “Self-described asshole”).

But his real passion are his characters – like the doctor, who employs morbid tactics to save his love, or the woman waiting for the pink moon.  Not content to let the characters live statically, he pseudo-animates and films their actions and struggles into shorts, giving them life beyond their wooden box settings.

Someone get this man a real website so he can get off Myspace.

Amanda Wachob is an artist from the Big Apple who has chosen human skin as her canvas ( that’s right, no Ctrl+Z or do-overs).  I first thought she brushed her work onto people but had my world rocked after learning she permanently tattoos it on her walking canvas’.  Amanda pushes abstract tattoo to the next level and blurs the line between fine art and tattoo art. Check out her paintings too, they rock.

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Oswald Cromheecke, a Belgian art student, couples satirical nods to pop culture with grim cross sections of familiar, if not unfortunate, scenarios. See: Teletubbies at war.

Oswald’s portfolio is very small, so I’ll limit this post to one image. Go check out his stuff!