Jesse Draxler

March 23, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Instagram, Portfolios, USA, 2016

"The obscured overlays and expressive marks that embody Draxler’s work are relatable reflections of repressed subconscious. In constructing, deconstructing and reworking photographs and images, Draxler reveals struggles and surrenders, his work living and breathing with dark hints of existential sexuality. Abstracting and subtracting the human form, Draxler simultaneously masks and uncovers both form and emotion, body and feeling. His practice resonates with familiar deep-set feelings, and like many working artists, Draxler pulls from his own mental state. His ability to harness and reveal vulnerability, tension, anxiety and heaviness is unbounded as he confronts both what we repress and what we reveal." jessedraxler.com, Instagram, via The Creators Project

Art of Alvaro Castagnet

March 18, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, Lifestyle, Portfolios, 2016

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay Alvaro Castagnet (Facebook) left it for Australia when he was young. Since than his passion of traveling settled down on his watercolour paper with a bursts of emotions he get in every trip. What I admire most is his speedy plain-air artworks he does alone or together with his masterclass fellows.

Art of Mimi S

March 17, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Germany, Portfolios, Street Art, 2016

Mimi Scholtz aka Mimi S is a figurative artists we spotted when did a small write up about their joint exhibition with Lora Zombie in Saatchi London. Inspired by hentai and street art Mimi S often creates huge artworks depicting a mess left by Hieronymus Bosch and Disney marriage.

Figurative sculpture by Johnson Tsang

March 16, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, China, Hong-Kong, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2016

"Tsang’s work integrates the themes of human beings vs. objects. Sometimes he anthropomorphizes these objects, giving them human attributes— like in the example of the coffee cups. In other cases, the figures he develops are decidedly human, but distinct nonetheless. He is particularly adept at sculpting expressive, childlike faces— sometimes cheerful, at other times ominous, especially when used in depictions of child soldiers or with other socio-political themes. On the one hand, he can make lovers out of coffee. On the other, he can turn transform a grenade into a pile of human organs. Johnson Tsang’s work has many faces— usually turned out to the world in an unexpectedly jarring way." via Decompoz

Art of Sean Mahan

March 15, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, USA, 2016

Sean Mahan is a social realist figurative painter who works with graphite/acrylic on wood to depict a sense of wonder about innate human sweetness - seanmahanart.com

Art of Tracy Lewis

March 14, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Illustration, Portfolios, USA, 2016

Awesome Californian artist working mainly in watercolours, meet Tracy Lewis (Instagram) and her fairy tales

For almost twenty years I’ve lived in the Sierra Foothills. My home has a tree house view of the world that has made nature an integral part of my life and my art. The metamorphosis of seasons and the cycles of life and death are reoccurring elements. A collection of curiosities, along with my love of fairy tales, Art Nouveau and Old Hollywood Glamour have also found their way into my art.
I paint primarily in transparent watercolor, layering luminous glazes of pure hue to give everything a candy coat of Easter-like color.

@tracylewisart

Lora Zombie and Mimi S at Saatchi Gallery

March 10, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Illustration, Motioncollector, Portfolios, United Kingdom

Saint-Petersburg raised street artist Lora Zombie and Berlin-based Mimi S have a joint at Saatchi Gallery, talking from "XX : A Moment in Time" exhibition. Take a look and if in London, have a chance to visit them offline.

John Breed

March 10, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Netherlands, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2016

Breuninger Shoe Salon commissioned John Breed (Instagram) to create a colourful installation at their shop window. He did a sculptural mural of 145 shoes sit on multicoloured and golden legs.

Art of Brooklyn Whelan

March 08, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, Portfolios, 2016

Born and raised in Sydney, Brooklyn Whelan is one of Australia’s best emerging contemporary artists. Working primarily with acrylics on canvas, his style is strongly influenced by weather patterns, his days of writing graffiti and “future type shit”.

As an artist, I work hard to develop my paintings that speak both to me and to others about the beauty and power that exists within weather patterns. I constantly find myself staring into oncoming storms. I do not merely want to capture the image with my painting; rather, with strong bold strokes, I want to give it life and energy, also the sense of fantasy that one might see in an 80’s sci fi - Powerful electricity, but with a tone of grace, softness and movement.

Studio of Tenka Gammelgaard

March 08, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Denmark, Interior Design, Portfolios, 2016

Tenka Gammelgaard is a danish artist who studied theatre scenography at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. As an artist she works on many decoration projects in Denmark and abroad. In addition to working as a visual artist she has created everything from porcelain for Royal Copenhagen to Irma carry bags. She is permanently represented in galleries in Tokyo, Singapore and Oslo. Tenka lives in and has a studio in the heart of Copenhagen. Its decoration drives our attention so please enjoy photos of it below

Art of Eda Gecikmez

March 04, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Turkey, 2016

Istanbul-based painter Eda Gecikmez offers a surreal take on corporate culture

Art of Alex Garant

March 03, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Canada, Portfolios, 2016

Queen of Double Eyes, Alex Garant (Instagram) is hailing from Quebec and now basing in Toronto. Her alla prima oil paintings offer a graphic quality combined with traditional portrait techniques. Garant uses patterns, duplication of elements, symmetry and image superposition as key elements of her imagery. Alex Garant's paintings are not far from a perfect optical illusion: her protagonists trying to escape themselves, almost possessed by a distinct version of their own individuality, an exorcism of the soul.

Art of Ian Francis

March 02, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2016

Figurative art of Ian Francis (Instagram) depict the whole meaning of human expressions

The Art of Light by Krista Kim

March 01, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, Portfolios, USA, TOP 2016, 2016

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Krista Kim

While preparing a new kick off collaboration for The Digital Decade 4 you won't miss, we are all eyes into a new and emerging artist working hard on a digital art scene. Check Kristina Kim (Instagram) and her "Techism" art. She believes that the future of art is digital, and she has initiated a movement called, “Techism”, which supports the digital artmaking processes, as digital technology facilitates experiential, co-creative, open participation and dialogue between the artist and the viewer on a constantly shifting basis through fluid interactivity

Wall Excavation by Daniel Arsham

February 29, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, USA, 2016

For his latest installation ‘Wall Excavation’, artist Daniel Arsham (previously) carved out large holes into faux-concrete walls at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, USA. Visitors can experience the artworks through the 300-foot long wall installation to engage with their surroundings in a new context. Additionally, the repetitions of carvings create a human-like silhouette, illustrating Arsham’s motivation to explore “mankind’s place in history” with the artwork.

“These select sculptural works and this installation explore the interaction between mankind and architecture, and draw particular attention to man’s capacity for creating, destroying and repurposing manmade and natural materials both historically and contemporaneously.”

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Loving Vincent

February 26, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Motioncollector, Poland, 2016

"Loving Vincent" is the first fully painted feature film in the world, directed by Polish painter and director Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (Oscar winner for producing "Peter and the Wolf"). The film is produced by Oscar-winning Studios Breakthru Films and Trademark Films.

Art of Wendy Ng

February 25, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, Portfolios, 2016

Wendy Ng has a beautiful collection combining the elegance of nature and women. Abstract and colourful, elements from flowers and leaves decorate the faces and bodies of the women painted. The portraits always showcase the woman’s face, and each have stunning features and captivating eyes gazing out of the canvas.

3D Grafitti Paintings by Felipe Pantone

February 25, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Spain, Street Art, Glitch, 2016

"Felipe Pantone’s work is at the cutting edge of street art. Straddling conventional graffiti, typography and abstraction, his work fuses bold elements of graphic design with highly evolved geometric shapes to create an ultra-modern aesthetic which complements and reacts with the stark modernity of our cityscapes.Drawing on our concerns of the digital age and the speed at which technology is developing, Pantone’s art is like looking several light years ahead into the future and discovering a new language in which to communicate."

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A series of facts of varying importance on the topic of Felipe Pantone UB.Felipe Pantone is a contemporary slash kinetic slash graffiti artist living in Valencia, Spain. Selina Miles is a video director from Brisbane, Australia. Together, they celebrate their love of the internet and facts in this short film.Directed and Edited by Selina Miles selinamiles.com
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Art of Antoine Dutilh

February 24, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2016, Russia

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Antoine Dutilh

British hyper realistic artist based in Moscow Antoine Dutilh creates awesome portraits with pain-stacking details that, for example, took him 5 months to complete the latest artwork you may see below. Antoine is currently a featured artist at Creative Debuts, London

@ant1pk

Dazzle Room by Shigeki Matsuyama

February 23, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2016

"Dazzle camouflage was a painting used for warships in World War I, when radar technology did not exist. It made it difficult to identify a vessel as well as its heading and speed. The person in the room hides her face with sunglasses, repeats reception and transmission with a smartphone in her hand. Dazzle camouflage that conceals form and direction of a warship is a metaphor of deviation in modern society. Transmission is expressed by painting on human, and reception by the world she sees." says artist Shigeki Matsuyama about her installation "Dazzle Room"