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Melissa Forman
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 6:01 am
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Melissa on her work:
Melissa Forman spends her days working as a commercial artist and her nights creating a richly visual world filled with characters created from an opulent, mysterious, and often eerie imagination. Her lovely, idealized figures seem lost in their own worlds, drifting between the 19th and 21st [...]
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Mac
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 6:01 am
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About Mac:
Since having started painting graffiti as “The Mac” in the mid 90s, Mac has been commissioned to produce murals around the world, he has exhibited in museums, and his work has graced the cover of numerous publications. Mac has gained increasing notoriety for his almost photorealistic depictions of [...]
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Mark Jenkins
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Monday, August 3, 2009, 6:01 am
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About Mark:
Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using packing tape. His work has been featured in various newspapers and magazines including Time Out: New York, The Washington Post, The Independent, the book Hidden Track: How Visual Culture is Going Places, [...]
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Jonathan Yeo
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Sunday, August 2, 2009, 6:01 am
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About Jonathan:
Jonathan Yeo (b 1970) is a British artist specializing in portraiture and collage. He is represented by Eleven in London and Lazarides worldwide. He didn’t go to art school but started painting portraits when recovering from Hodgkins Disease in the early 1990s. He became known for painting contemporary [...]
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David Mellon
Post from Artist a Day
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 6:01 am
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David on his work:
Whether in my still lifes or my figurative paintings, the goal is to create an abstract form of storytelling with images that are as simple and direct as children’s book illustrations while at the same time being as mysterious as a dream. Clarity and Ambiguity; balancing [...]
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Alexis Marcou
Post from Artist a Day
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 2:45 am
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About Alexis:
The majority of Alexis Marcou’s mixed-media pieces are either black and white or monochromatic. The fluid and organic nature of his work is achieved through the loosely built figures and the variant in tones that he creates with his unique watercolor-inspired technique. The beauty and modesty of his [...]
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Helen Masacz
Post from Artist a Day
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 2:45 am
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About Helen:
Helen Masacz is a painter with a growing reputation, having been selected for exhibition in the BP Award at the National Portrait Gallery in 2004.
In 2005 along with other noted artists such as Frank Auerbach, Tracey Emin and Marc Quinn,Helen was asked by the National Portrait Gallery to [...]
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Candice Tripp
Post from Artist a Day
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 2:45 am
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Candice on her work:
The 23 year old international minger and spoon designer is a self-taught artist who works mainly in finger paints. At the age of 10 she completed her first project: a lunar refugee centre constructed entirely of wattle and daub. The piece, entitled “Mommy, my brain hurts”, [...]
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Derek Gores
Post from Artist a Day
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 2:45 am
Read more: Art
About Derek:
Derek has gained national attention for his collage portrait series, recycling magazines, labels, and found materials to create the works on canvas. The series showcases Gores’ contrasting interests in the natural beauty of the figure, the angular design aesthetics of fashion (and machinery), and a fearless sense of [...]
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Cherri Wood
Post from Artist a Day
Saturday, August 1, 2009, 2:45 am
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About Cherri:
Cherri Wood (aka Fy Simone) is a young illustrator based in Minnesota, USA. Deeply influenced by indie films, comic art, graphic novels and photography, her watercolour and ink studies explore various areas such as alienation, childhood idiosyncrasies, and psychosis.
Each drawing contains quotes and dialogues from classic plays and [...]
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Alexis Marcou
Post from Artist a Day
Friday, July 31, 2009, 6:01 am
Read more: Art
About Alexis:
The majority of Alexis Marcou’s mixed-media pieces are either black and white or monochromatic. The fluid and organic nature of his work is achieved through the loosely built figures and the variant in tones that he creates with his unique watercolor-inspired technique. The beauty and modesty of his [...]
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Helen Masacz
Post from Artist a Day
Thursday, July 30, 2009, 6:01 am
Read more: Art
About Helen:
Helen Masacz is a painter with a growing reputation, having been selected for exhibition in the BP Award at the National Portrait Gallery in 2004.
In 2005 along with other noted artists such as Frank Auerbach, Tracey Emin and Marc Quinn,Helen was asked by the National Portrait Gallery to [...]
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Candice Tripp
Post from Artist a Day
Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 6:01 am
Read more: Art
Candice on her work:
The 23 year old international minger and spoon designer is a self-taught artist who works mainly in finger paints. At the age of 10 she completed her first project: a lunar refugee centre constructed entirely of wattle and daub. The piece, entitled “Mommy, my brain hurts”, [...]
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Derek Gores
Post from Artist a Day
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 6:01 am
Read more: Art
About Derek:
Derek has gained national attention for his collage portrait series, recycling magazines, labels, and found materials to create the works on canvas. The series showcases Gores’ contrasting interests in the natural beauty of the figure, the angular design aesthetics of fashion (and machinery), and a fearless sense of [...]
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Cherri Wood
Post from Artist a Day
Monday, July 27, 2009, 6:01 am
Read more: Art
About Cherri:
Cherri Wood (aka Fy Simone) is a young illustrator based in Minnesota, USA. Deeply influenced by indie films, comic art, graphic novels and photography, her watercolour and ink studies explore various areas such as alienation, childhood idiosyncrasies, and psychosis.
Each drawing contains quotes and dialogues from classic plays and [...]
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Rick Anthony Diaz
Post from Artist a Day
Sunday, July 26, 2009, 6:01 am
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Rick on his work:
We learn society’s value systems as children. In the western world, children learn values from the people that raise them and from the media, namely television, film and advertising. They learn to uphold these values through the act of playing with toys. Action figures and dolls [...]
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Are Mokkelbost
Post from Artist a Day
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 6:01 am
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About Are:
Are Mokkelbost lives and works in Oslo. He is member of the bands KILLL, Single Unit and ARM. Are Mokkelbosts work is influenced by the methodology of music and design, two fields he has been constantly involved in. His last body of work, ION, is a collage image [...]
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Andrew Ek
Post from Artist a Day
Friday, July 24, 2009, 6:01 am
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Andrew on his work:
I am a self-taught painter. I attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh briefly for Industrial Design Technology. My paintings are crystallized visions that have surfaced or have been captured, usually at random, from a thought or emotion. Usually the creative process begins upon viewing an image [...]
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Surabhi Saraf
Post from Artist a Day
Thursday, July 23, 2009, 6:01 am
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About Surabhi:
Surabhi is a new media artist whose work brings together elements from experimental sound art, classical music, choreography and video art. She takes a compositional approach, punctuating her works by events and moments choreographed in time. Surabhi has a background in Indian classical singing and has used her [...]
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Greg Lamarche
Post from Artist a Day
Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 6:01 am
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About Greg:
Greg Lamarche was born and raised in Queens and still resides in New York City. After spending more than 25 years as a graffiti writer he turned his attention to collage art. Greg’s work is meticulously crafted from found objects. With a hint of typography, graffiti and wit [...]
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