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Catman 74
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Artists You Might Not Know, by Catman 74 on Jun 16, 2015 20:59:10 GMT 1, As I'm very much into stencil art one artist who's not really mentioned in here (unless I've missed posts about him) but funny enough he was mentioned by Banksy is IHeart,a Canadian urban artist I really like..you can check out his work here:
www.iheartthestreetart.com/street-2/
As I'm very much into stencil art one artist who's not really mentioned in here (unless I've missed posts about him) but funny enough he was mentioned by Banksy is IHeart,a Canadian urban artist I really like..you can check out his work here: www.iheartthestreetart.com/street-2/ |
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cyberkid
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Artists You Might Not Know, by cyberkid on Jun 16, 2015 21:03:01 GMT 1, jef aerosol
check here
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dreadnatty
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Artists You Might Not Know, by dreadnatty on Jun 16, 2015 21:12:20 GMT 1, Justin Bower
Justin Bower paints his subjects as de-stabilized, fractured post-humans in a nexus of interlocking spatial systems. His paintings problematize how we define ourselves in this digital and virtual age while suggesting the impossibility of grasping such a slippery notion.
The ongoing decoding of the human body, a formula to each individual’s genome, confronts us with a radical question of “What are we? Am I a code that can be reduced and multiplied infinitely?” Bower’s paintings begin to open a dialogue to this destabilizing effect/trauma technology has on the individual that has infected the daily lives of contemporary man. He shows this destabilization through the doubling of features - multiple eyes, spliced noses, melting mouths - and the whiplash motion invoked in his Abstract Expressionist process.
Much like Francis Bacon and Da Vinci of generations past, Bower uses paint as an instrument of dissection and inquiry. Flesh acts as a complex veneer, functioning as a biological boundary from externalized technologies; all the while the viewer realizes that the same externalized technologies are always already inside the subject. This ultimately creates an open system, an incomplete subject becoming and degrading, not knowing where the outside starts and the internal ends. The boundaries of the traditional subject are now leaking in Bower’s concept.
His paintings reflect the increasing “control society” that we find ourselves in. By placing his turbulent subjects in an Op Art context, the familiar repeating patterns that were used to engage the eye in the 60’s, are now being deployed to act as a type of “code” permeating and invading the body/subject. Bower wants to “have the viewer feel the instability his subjects reflect”, by playing on the non-fixed features of the face and the hallucinatory effects of the Op Art, so as to engage the viewer and perhaps awaken them from a techno-slumber.
In the end, Bower’s subjects are an inquiry into the nature of autonomy in the modern subject. Is “free will” minimized in a society that deploys technology in an effort for more and more control over the individual? Have we ever really had it to begin with? Bower paints his subjects as an ontological problem, and as such, he sees…”the study of subjectivity functions best under the threat of vanishing”.
Born in San Francisco in 1975, Bower earned a degree in Art and Philosophy from the University of Arizona in 1998 and a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University in 2010.
Since graduating from CGU, Bower’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills (2010) and Unix Gallery in New York City (2013).
Bower's work has been shown at galleries, museums, and international art fairs including: Art15 London (2015); Art Miami New York (2015); Stage Singapore (2015); Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco (2014); Start Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery in London (2014); Silicon Valley Contemporary (2014); The Palm Springs Fine Art Fair (2014 & 2015); Zona Maco Mexico (2014); The LA Art Show (2014 & 2015); Art Miami (2013 & 2014); Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles (2013 and 2010); Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair (2011 and 2013); Los Angeles Art Platform (2011); Art Aspen (2013 & 2014); and Art Southampton (2013 & 2014).
The artist has won and been nominated for several grants and awards, among them The Feitelson Fellowship Grant (2010) and The Joan Mitchell award (2010).
Bower's artwork has been published in American Art Collector magazine (April 2015 issue); Blisss Magazine (February 2014 cover), Modern Painters (February 2014: Reviews in Brief and September 2013: 100 Best Fall Shows), Studio Visit Magazine (2013 cover), Artillery Magazine (2010), the LA Times (2010), and New American Paintings (2010 cover).
Justin Bower Justin Bower paints his subjects as de-stabilized, fractured post-humans in a nexus of interlocking spatial systems. His paintings problematize how we define ourselves in this digital and virtual age while suggesting the impossibility of grasping such a slippery notion. The ongoing decoding of the human body, a formula to each individual’s genome, confronts us with a radical question of “What are we? Am I a code that can be reduced and multiplied infinitely?” Bower’s paintings begin to open a dialogue to this destabilizing effect/trauma technology has on the individual that has infected the daily lives of contemporary man. He shows this destabilization through the doubling of features - multiple eyes, spliced noses, melting mouths - and the whiplash motion invoked in his Abstract Expressionist process. Much like Francis Bacon and Da Vinci of generations past, Bower uses paint as an instrument of dissection and inquiry. Flesh acts as a complex veneer, functioning as a biological boundary from externalized technologies; all the while the viewer realizes that the same externalized technologies are always already inside the subject. This ultimately creates an open system, an incomplete subject becoming and degrading, not knowing where the outside starts and the internal ends. The boundaries of the traditional subject are now leaking in Bower’s concept. His paintings reflect the increasing “control society” that we find ourselves in. By placing his turbulent subjects in an Op Art context, the familiar repeating patterns that were used to engage the eye in the 60’s, are now being deployed to act as a type of “code” permeating and invading the body/subject. Bower wants to “have the viewer feel the instability his subjects reflect”, by playing on the non-fixed features of the face and the hallucinatory effects of the Op Art, so as to engage the viewer and perhaps awaken them from a techno-slumber. In the end, Bower’s subjects are an inquiry into the nature of autonomy in the modern subject. Is “free will” minimized in a society that deploys technology in an effort for more and more control over the individual? Have we ever really had it to begin with? Bower paints his subjects as an ontological problem, and as such, he sees…”the study of subjectivity functions best under the threat of vanishing”. Born in San Francisco in 1975, Bower earned a degree in Art and Philosophy from the University of Arizona in 1998 and a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University in 2010. Since graduating from CGU, Bower’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills (2010) and Unix Gallery in New York City (2013). Bower's work has been shown at galleries, museums, and international art fairs including: Art15 London (2015); Art Miami New York (2015); Stage Singapore (2015); Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco (2014); Start Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery in London (2014); Silicon Valley Contemporary (2014); The Palm Springs Fine Art Fair (2014 & 2015); Zona Maco Mexico (2014); The LA Art Show (2014 & 2015); Art Miami (2013 & 2014); Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles (2013 and 2010); Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair (2011 and 2013); Los Angeles Art Platform (2011); Art Aspen (2013 & 2014); and Art Southampton (2013 & 2014). The artist has won and been nominated for several grants and awards, among them The Feitelson Fellowship Grant (2010) and The Joan Mitchell award (2010). Bower's artwork has been published in American Art Collector magazine (April 2015 issue); Blisss Magazine (February 2014 cover), Modern Painters (February 2014: Reviews in Brief and September 2013: 100 Best Fall Shows), Studio Visit Magazine (2013 cover), Artillery Magazine (2010), the LA Times (2010), and New American Paintings (2010 cover). |
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Artists You Might Not Know, by Coach on Jun 16, 2015 22:31:57 GMT 1,
Thanks pingoo
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dotdot
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Artists You Might Not Know, by dotdot on Jun 16, 2015 22:40:50 GMT 1, Adnate.
Adnate.
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lha
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Artists You Might Not Know, by lha on Jun 16, 2015 22:45:03 GMT 1, Chris Ofili, fantastic artist
Chris Ofili, fantastic artist
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delano
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Artists You Might Not Know, by delano on Jun 16, 2015 22:51:05 GMT 1, Evol & Shawn Huckins.
Evol & Shawn Huckins.
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WOOF
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Artists You Might Not Know, by WOOF on Jun 16, 2015 23:33:12 GMT 1, Feel free to post a pic or two of your favorite pieces by said artists!
dreadnatty - awesome stuff man, nice find.
Feel free to post a pic or two of your favorite pieces by said artists! dreadnatty - awesome stuff man, nice find. |
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dreadnatty
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Artists You Might Not Know, by dreadnatty on Jun 16, 2015 23:45:43 GMT 1, Seize Happywallmaker
A self-taught painter, I was born in Paris in 1971. I live in a geometric and colorful world.
My experience and my inspiration come from urban arts, where I began. I developed a very personal graphic code and I use the energy from the colors as a therapy.
I have been working for many years on reflections based on networks and connections.
I discovered that symbols form a language.
My symbolic language speaks of nature and the universe. I believe that geometric forms associated with the simplicity and the strictness of structures and composition can lead to a great purity.
Nevertheless, the same forms show infinite possible combinations and can also express dynamism and great vitality. Using the same elementary shapes — lines, circles, squares, triangles, polygons, and curves, most of the major characteristics of human beings can be described: purity, contemplation, spirituality, calm, joy, dynamism, consciousness, creativity, imagination…
Seize Happywallmaker A self-taught painter, I was born in Paris in 1971. I live in a geometric and colorful world. My experience and my inspiration come from urban arts, where I began. I developed a very personal graphic code and I use the energy from the colors as a therapy. I have been working for many years on reflections based on networks and connections. I discovered that symbols form a language. My symbolic language speaks of nature and the universe. I believe that geometric forms associated with the simplicity and the strictness of structures and composition can lead to a great purity. Nevertheless, the same forms show infinite possible combinations and can also express dynamism and great vitality. Using the same elementary shapes — lines, circles, squares, triangles, polygons, and curves, most of the major characteristics of human beings can be described: purity, contemplation, spirituality, calm, joy, dynamism, consciousness, creativity, imagination… |
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dreadnatty
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Artists You Might Not Know, by dreadnatty on Jun 16, 2015 23:50:33 GMT 1, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan
Since when he was very young he passed his days painting and drawing. He found his universe when he discovered the oil paints at the age of 5.
Very soon he was noticed by Henrik Iguitian, an art critic, founder and director of Modern Art Museum and Children Art Museum in Yerevan. He organized Tigran's first personal exhibition with one hundred works when Tigran was ten years old. The exhibition started in Yerevan, and then continued in the cities of Spain and USA. In the following years Tigran had numerous exhibitions in Armenia, Russia, West Europe and United States.
He was awarded by different governmental organizations and foundations in Armenia and Russia. Hundreds of articles were written, interviews and 2 documentaries were made. His paintings were included in the catalogues of the modern Armenian artists.
From 1993 to 1999 Tigran studied in the Fine Art Academy of Yerevan, and also worked as a decorator in the Pantomime Theater. In 1999 he continued his studies and got his diploma in 2002 in Switzerland, at ECAV. The education continued and in 2005 Tigran got the degree of a Master of Art in the Public Sphere (MAPS). During that period he was also working at the same school as an assistant, and did Artist Residences in England and South Africa.
At present the majority of his works are in private collections, galleries and museums.
Tigran Tsitoghdzyan Since when he was very young he passed his days painting and drawing. He found his universe when he discovered the oil paints at the age of 5. Very soon he was noticed by Henrik Iguitian, an art critic, founder and director of Modern Art Museum and Children Art Museum in Yerevan. He organized Tigran's first personal exhibition with one hundred works when Tigran was ten years old. The exhibition started in Yerevan, and then continued in the cities of Spain and USA. In the following years Tigran had numerous exhibitions in Armenia, Russia, West Europe and United States. He was awarded by different governmental organizations and foundations in Armenia and Russia. Hundreds of articles were written, interviews and 2 documentaries were made. His paintings were included in the catalogues of the modern Armenian artists. From 1993 to 1999 Tigran studied in the Fine Art Academy of Yerevan, and also worked as a decorator in the Pantomime Theater. In 1999 he continued his studies and got his diploma in 2002 in Switzerland, at ECAV. The education continued and in 2005 Tigran got the degree of a Master of Art in the Public Sphere (MAPS). During that period he was also working at the same school as an assistant, and did Artist Residences in England and South Africa. At present the majority of his works are in private collections, galleries and museums. |
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Artists You Might Not Know, by andyroo0312 on Jun 17, 2015 5:18:09 GMT 1, The first name that springs to mind is Jón Gunnar Árnason a Icelandic sculptor best known for "Solfar" or "The Sun Voyager"  in Reykjavik but he has done a lot of other very beautiful work in wood and wrought iron. If you ever go to Hotel Holt in Reykjavik they have some of his works and a very cool stair case he did in the 70,s. Unfortunately he went to the big studio in the sky circa 1989.
The first name that springs to mind is Jón Gunnar Árnason a Icelandic sculptor best known for "Solfar" or "The Sun Voyager" in Reykjavik but he has done a lot of other very beautiful work in wood and wrought iron. If you ever go to Hotel Holt in Reykjavik they have some of his works and a very cool stair case he did in the 70,s. Unfortunately he went to the big studio in the sky circa 1989. |
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phischa
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Artists You Might Not Know, by phischa on Jun 17, 2015 10:02:45 GMT 1, Love the thread!!
Love the thread!!
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snik
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Artists You Might Not Know, by snik on Jun 17, 2015 11:10:33 GMT 1, Jake Wood-Evans. Incredible talent, huge things ahead surely...
Jake Wood-Evans. Incredible talent, huge things ahead surely... |
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Artists You Might Not Know, by wigs on Jun 17, 2015 11:27:08 GMT 1, Joe Magee www.periphery.co.uk
Love his 'Thatcher' print, an image commissioned and published by The Daily Telegraph in 2003. The image accompanied a consumer item but, unbeknownst to the newspaper the series of dots spread around the image was actually braille, and a sharp reader decoded it as 'Thatcher F**ked Us'. When it became apparent that the artist had been doing this for several weeks, embedding messages countering the newspaper's right-wing philosophy, he was promptly sacked, unpaid for his last 6 images. For which he remains unpaid.
Joe Magee www.periphery.co.ukLove his 'Thatcher' print, an image commissioned and published by The Daily Telegraph in 2003. The image accompanied a consumer item but, unbeknownst to the newspaper the series of dots spread around the image was actually braille, and a sharp reader decoded it as 'Thatcher F**ked Us'. When it became apparent that the artist had been doing this for several weeks, embedding messages countering the newspaper's right-wing philosophy, he was promptly sacked, unpaid for his last 6 images. For which he remains unpaid. |
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wigs
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Artists You Might Not Know, by wigs on Jun 17, 2015 11:37:50 GMT 1, For those who like things colourful and Cornish have a look at Mat McIvor
matmcivor.co.uk.
He has also just opened shop in Penzance screen printing T shirts etc.
fishboypz.co.uk
For those who like things colourful and Cornish have a look at Mat McIvor
matmcivor.co.uk.
He has also just opened shop in Penzance screen printing T shirts etc.
fishboypz.co.uk
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Artists You Might Not Know, by Lroy on Jun 17, 2015 11:57:14 GMT 1, Yes Evol of course.
Why everybody talk-show a out Slinkachu and none about Cement Eclpise aka Isaac Cordal ?
cementeclipses.com/works/
Yes Evol of course. Why everybody talk-show a out Slinkachu and none about Cement Eclpise aka Isaac Cordal ? cementeclipses.com/works/ |
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Artists You Might Not Know, by visualverite on Jun 17, 2015 18:47:07 GMT 1, Victor Reyes
www.reyes78.com
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mmmike
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Artists You Might Not Know, by mmmike on Jun 18, 2015 18:21:17 GMT 1, GONZ!!!
GONZ!!!
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londonfx
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Artists You Might Not Know, by londonfx on Jun 18, 2015 19:16:47 GMT 1, Danny Oconnor (DOC)
Amazing skills and a nice bloke!
Danny Oconnor (DOC)
Amazing skills and a nice bloke!
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dotdot
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Artists You Might Not Know, by dotdot on Jun 18, 2015 20:11:23 GMT 1, r e p l e t e
..cool ideas.
r e p l e t e
..cool ideas.
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Artists You Might Not Know, by andyroo0312 on Jun 19, 2015 5:31:37 GMT 1, Milo Moire except for plopegg.
Milo Moire except for plopegg.
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