Embroidery and Illustrations by Liza Smirnova
Moscow-based artist Liza Smirnova uses embroidery as a tool for her illustrative artworks
Malevich Gestalta
Moscow-based designer Maksim Arbuzov made a sort of an art statement by juxtaposing two icons of mass-production and contemporary art: IKEA and Malevich
"The moment when culture is reflecting in a mass product. Time is going and we often don’t see how history influences to our culture and markets. My idea is to show how through time frames art objects can find reflection in mass-market products. Malevich's Gestalta representing a contemporary culture was created from two famous man-made pieces from different centuries"
Surreal Portraits by Ben Zank
American photographer Ben Zank, shot a new series of surreal portraits following his move from New York City to New Zealand. In a statement about his latest work, Zank says, “The images represent an ongoing experience of emotions that I feel, the most recent being isolation and a longing to connect with another human being.”
Tamura Yoshiyasu Art
Tamura Yoshiyasu (田村吉康) is a professional manga illustrator & painter, born in Gunma, Japan, 1977. Since high school, he has been drawing & in 2003, his first manga, “Fudegami” was published in the popular monthly, Gekkan Shonen Jump. As a painter, he has exhibited his works at Takashi Murakami’s gallery Higari Zingaro, Basel, Taipei, Los Angeles, New York & Mexico City. He also collaborated with the fashion brand “McQ: Alexander McQueen” for the 2014 winter collection.
Fasted by Studio Dessuant Bone
Studio Dessuant Bone is a multi-disciplinary design consultancy based in Paris, with our specialities in direction, design, product and interiors. Their conceptual series of tableware objects "Fasted" was presented last year at Salone Del Mobile 2015
“We have created a set of non functional tableware and focused on their representation, producing a drawing in volume made of blue metal wire. This dinner scene is framed by a brushed brass circle. ‘Fasted’ questions the links between objects surrounding us and their representation.”
Yago Hortal
Artist from Barcelona creates colourful works that can be visually read as self expressions of his emotional states. Meet Yago Hortal
Wooden Sculpture of Yoshitoshi Kanemaki
Japanese contemporary sculptor Yoshitoshi Kanemaki creates surreal wooden sculptures you won't ever forget once seen
Art of Ryan Morse
Ryan Morse is a Denver based freelance artist who received his BFA in illustration from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. His artwork is mainly representational with a deep affection for the cosmos, nature, and the human figure.
Art of Ian Davenport
British artist Ian Davenport creates artworks by pouring gallons of colours in his own way on canvas creating slit scan effect
Voyage by Thomas Danthony
Thomas Danthony (previously) is a London based artist, illustrator, and designer. In 2015, he has created “VOYAGE”, a series of paintings that serve as invitations to a poetic journey. Inspired by distant countries and exotic places, the artworks convey a touch of romance and mystery.
Lucid Dreams by sculptor Johnson Tsang
Johnson Tsang (previously) is an exceptional artist who skilfully combines figurative sculptural techniques with surreal portrayals. His latest series ‘Lucid Dream’ consists of sculptures of human heads in strangely transformed representations. The sculptures were made of porcelain representing different faces or personalities in a variety of weird situations. The complete series could be seen at Hong Kong’s Sculpture Biennial 2016.
James Jean art
James Jean was born in Taiwan and graduated from New York City's School of Visual Arts. His critically acclaimed illustration and fine art career has led him to create covers for DC Comics, collaborate with Prada, and to exhibit his work worldwide.
Upcoming exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery
Reality 2.0 by Dmitry Aske
Dmitri Aske had his first solo show in September — October, 2016 in Vladey Space Gallery, Moscow, Russia. The exhibition called Reality 2.0 included eight new artworks made in the artist's unique technique of a multilayer plywood relief especially for the show. All the works are dedicated to the digital era we are living in, now that the Internet takes up more and more of our time and attention becoming for many people the second reality. The addiction some people have might be even compared to a mother-child relationship. At the same time, as Marshall McLuhan wrote as far back as 1960s, people don't actually notice how new media entering our lives are gradually changing us.
A person born before the 1990s sees video calls, a 'computer-in-your-pocket' phone, and a broadband Internet connection available almost everywhere as materialisation of the future. Meanwhile, the new generation takes all that for granted as a beginning of a new era. In his new body of work, Dmitri Aske reflects our time suggesting that the viewers should contemplate how much all of us are absorbed by Reality 2.0.
"Fixed It" Portraits series by Henrietta Harris
Talented artist we discovered few years ago Henrietta Harris has created lots of new artworks since than. Her paintings often involved portraiture with a departure into the surreal with faces skilfully obscured and misplaced by the clean sweep of a brushstroke.
Bill Durgin
Bill Durgin works with human's body as a metaphoric material. In his photography models become sculptures bending the reality and primitive laws of physics.
Art of Elly Smallwood
Canadian artist living and working in Toronto Elly Smallwood creates emotional portraits and other statements on canvas using large brush strokes and graphite.
Pink Project by Portia Munson
Recently exhibited at Frieze Art London "Pink Project" of Portia Munson is a bold setup of feminst artists represented by NY Gallery P.P.O.W.
P.P.O.W.’s booth at Frieze London, 2016. Photo by Benjamin Westoby for Artsy
"The highlight of P.P.O.W.’s booth is certainly Portia Munson’s 1994/2016 Pink Project: Table, in which the artist collected hundreds of pink, plastic items—dolls, My Little Ponies, makeup receptacles, hair accessories, and mirrors among them—marketed at young girls and women. The table is not just a feast for the eyes, but also a trip down memory lane and a potent reminder of consumerism’s influence on children." Artsy
““Pink Project,” first exhibited in the New Museum’s Bad Girls exhibition in 1994, consists of thousands of discarded pink objects carefully arranged on a large table. It is a visual overload of products that were created to appeal specifically to women and girls, including hair clips, pacifiers, fake fingernails, combs, dildos, cleaning products, toys, tampon applicators, kitchen gadgets and hundreds of other items, all representing mass seduction and consumption. The “Pink Project” has taken various forms: as sculpture, presented in glass vitrines, as a room-sized mound, a bedroom (exhibited at Mass MOCA in 2010), and a glass coffin.
Each iteration of the work has revealed the marketing of femininity and the infantilization of the female gender while also exploring the culturally loaded color pink and its continued societal projection onto girls and women.”
Photo by Present & Correct
Stones by David Cunningham
David Cunningham’s compelling realistic paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States. His ongoing series of hyper realistic artworks depicting seashore stones became a sort of representation of artist's inner world.
Post-graffiti Design Objects by Whatshisname
"Whatshisname" is an art alias of Polish artist living in London. His recent works includes punk parody on Koons "balloon" art - POPek Red, a statue of squatting balloon dog.
POPek Red Large
“The aim of my art is to express what cannot be express with words. I want to encourage the viewer to look at surrounding world and question it in derisive, unorthodox way.”
POPek Red Small
Knife sharpener
Riots Lamps
New Art by Aykut Aydoğdu
Istanbul artist Aykut Aydoğdu (previously) shares new set of striking illustrations
