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The Beautiful Art of Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

 

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Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

 

Letisia Cruz

 

 

Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT:

www.lesinfin.com

LetisiaCruz1My illustrations are primarily rendered in pen and ink on paper. I am inspired by strong, trailblazing, bad-ass women who push boundaries, forge their own paths, and define for themselves what it means to achieve success. I am also inspired by the take-no-shit attitude of the ’90s and transformative self-expression made possible through art, poetry and music.

My illustrations often depict tattooed girls straddling light and dark, gazing into their own abyss, and redefining their sense of self. My work is infused with elements of nature and religious symbolism, from classical Greek and Roman mythology to the goddesses of Nordic, Vedic, and Yoruba Mythology. Whatever I’m reading at the moment usually works its way into my drawings. Much of my work is centered around the seasons of nature and the passing of time, as well as on the endless cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth.

 

BIO

Letisia Cruz is a Cuban-American writer and illustrator. She is enthralled by nature and the acute connection to form associated with ink illustration. Her visual vocabulary emerges through this focus and subsequently explores the connection between man and nature.

She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and currently lives in Miami, FL. She is the resident artist at Petite Hound Press and the Online Poetry Re-Features Editor at The Literary Review.

 

 

Dream Poetry

Last Night in a Dream

by Ashley Inguanta

 

Last night in a dream, I was healthy. You were a rose. You got into my car and I took you home, and when you saw the white flags at the Brooklyn bridge’s arc, you told me the story of a conflicted hero, all shadow and moon, and I told you a story about resurrecting the dead. In your story, the hero did not want to die, so she did not leap. Instead, she turned into a seed. In my story, I kneeled by your grave. When I heard gunfire, I dodged each bullet—and then, finally, I woke up next to you, all new, stripes of sunlight over your hair like a crisp photograph.

Sometimes I wonder: If God could really hear me, what would the moon do? Any good moon would reach over both white flags, carry them to you as you fall asleep. Any good moon would hold me here, in this dream, where I can run to you without losing my breath, where you are a rose and my heart is good as new.

 

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BIO

ashley inguantaAshley Inguanta is a small-press author, photographer, and yoga teacher who has dedicated her life to helping others heal by developing healthy coping mechanisms. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Central Florida in 2011, and she earned her 200 hour RYT certificate from YOGAMAYA New York in 2014. She is the author of The Way Home (Dancing Girl Press, 2013 / re-published with The Writing Disorder on Kindle), For the Woman Alone (Ampersand Books 2014), and Bomb, which is forthcoming with Ampersand Books this fall. As a mental health advocate and queer rights advocate, she’s volunteered with organizations and facilities like Equality Florida and Lakeside Alternative, and currently she teaches healing, restorative writing and yoga classes at several locations in Central Florida.

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Alexander C. Kafka is a journalist, photographer, and composer in Bethesda, Maryland. His photography portfolio is at https://www.lensculture.com/alexander-kafka

 

 

 

The Illuminating Photography of John Tavares

 

 

Tree Line Northern Lights

Tree Line, Northern Lights

 

Reflections of the Light Show

Reflections of the Light Show

 

Moose Creek

Moose Creek

 

Aurora Borealis Ojibway CountryClub

Aurora Borealis Ojibway CountryClub

 

Frog Rapids Bridge Night

Frog Rapids Bridge, Night

 

Iron Bridge

Iron Bridge

 

Aurora Borealis Pelican Lake

Aurora Borealis Pelican Lake

 

Snowmobile Trail

Snowmobile Trail

 

Sioux Mountain Summer Morning

Sioux Mountain, Summer Morning

 

Aurora Borealis Pine Tree

Aurora Borealis, Pine Tree

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

In creative endeavors, I have a strong passion for writing, particularly creative writing, but I found photography an engaging form of free expression long before I attended journalism school. I first became fascinated by photography as a medium and art form through magazine cover illustrations and especially the photojournalism of Time-Life photographers such as Robert Capa while I was in high school, when I read World War Two and Viet Nam war history. I always gravitated towards the journalistic medium, so when I acquired the training afforded by journalism college I felt more assertive behind the camera lens. I found digital photography liberating – a tool that empowered me in efforts to photographically document, far and wide, various aspects of everyday life and the urban environment, including social issues and norms and morays, in Toronto and rural landscapes in the sparsely populated latitudes of northwestern Ontario. In the northern setting I am often overwhelmed by the vastness and inexorableness of nature and I experimented in slightly unconventional manners with capturing landscape images, including using very long focal lengths, extremely long shutter speeds, in very low light. Inspired by the photography of artists like Ansel Adams and Annie Leibowitz, I nonetheless tend to eschew efforts towards their technical perfection, which at times seems unattainable. Likewise, I’ve been content to keep photo editing to a minimum, so I simply don’t use sophisticated image editing programs like Photoshop or Lightroom. I have utilized Aviary, Flickr’s online photo editor, and its predecessor, Picnik, at a bare minimum, to crop, color correct, or to tweak saturation and warmth, but even then I’m often dissatisfied with the results. For some images I selected for The Writing Disorder, I’ve allowed myself to be enchanted by the color and beauty of the northern landscape, occasionally set against the intrusion of technology and human development.

 

 

BIO

John TavaresBorn and raised in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, John Tavares is the son of Portuguese immigrants from Sao Miguel, Azores. His formal education includes a two-year GAS diploma from Humber College with concentration in psychology, a three-year journalism diploma from Centennial College, a Specialized Honors BA in English from York University. He’s worked as a research assistant for the Sioux Lookout Public Library and the Northwestern Ontario regional recycle association with the public works department. He also worked with the disabled for the Sioux Lookout Association for Community Living. Meanwhile, his short fiction has been published in a wide variety of “little magazines” and literary magazines, online and in print, in the United States and Canada. Following journalism studies, he had articles, photography, and features published in East York Observer, East York Times, Beaches Town Crier, East Toronto Advocate, Our Toronto – as well as community and trade newspapers such as York University’s Excalibur and Hospital News, where he interned as an editorial assistant. John recently wrote a novel.

 

The Comic Art of Brad Gottschalk

 

Gottschalk Curiosity

Gottschalk Curiosity

Gottschalk Curiosity

Gottschalk Curiosity

Gottschalk Curiosity

Gottschalk Curiosity

 

 

BIO

gottschalkBrad Gottschalk is an exile from the realm of live theater. Currently he is a cartoonist living in Madison, Wisconsin. His art and comics have appeared in Raven Chronicles, Nerve Cowboy, and Berkeley Fiction Review. Read more of his work at www.slienttheatercomics.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WAXenVINE Photography

The Beautiful Images of Scott Irvine & Kim Meinelt

 

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

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WAXENVINE is the collective vision of husband and wife team Scott Irvine and Kim Meinelt.  Their work centers around themes of light, shadow, texture and beauty. They are drawn to finding the unusual within the mundane and beauty in unexpected places. Their process often involves blending multiple images together – resulting in a haunting dreamscape that transcends reality and the singular image.

SCOTT IRVINE received his BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology.   His work has been exhibited internationally. Scott manages one of the few remaining black + white darkrooms where he works and lives as an artist in Williamsburg Brooklyn NY.

KIM MEINELT studied at North Carolina School of the Arts with an intense focus on set design and scenic painting. After freelancing as a sculptor, painter and interior designer in NYC, she crossed paths with Eileen Fisher in 93 evolving into a successful career as the Creative Concept Director.

www.waxenvine.com

www.instagram.com/scottirvine57

 Scott Irvine scott irvine photography (@scottirvine57) • Instagram photos and videos

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Brooklyn NYC. Film, Polaroid, Darkroom, Silver-gelatin, Rolleiflex, Holga, Lomo, Wet-plate, Vintage cameras, Hipstamatic.

 

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 Kim Meinelt kim meinelt photography (@kimmibird) • Instagram photos and videos

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See Instagram photos and videos from kim meinelt photography (@kimmibird)

 

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Kim Meinelt and Scott Irvine at Home in Brooklyn « the selby

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Kim Meinelt – Artist and Visual Director at Eileen Fisher, and Scott Irvine – Photographer and Musician

 

The Art of Harumi Hironaka

 

Regret by Hironaka

Regret by Hironaka

 

Warg Witch by Hironaka

Warg Witch by Hironaka

 

Lenore by Hironaka

Lenore by Hironaka

 

Chimama by Hironaka

Chimama by Hironaka

 

Manos by Hironaka

Manos by Hironaka

 

Fetish by Hironaka

Fetish by Hironaka

 

Little Things That Fall by Hironaka

Little Things That Fall by Hironaka

 

That Other Universe by Hironaka

That Other Universe by Hironaka

 

Sullen by Hironaka

Sullen by Hironaka

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Harumi HironakaHarumi Hironaka is a Japanese/Peruvian self-taught painter and illustrator, living in São Paulo, Brasil.

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The Art of Giada Cattaneo

 

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Giada Cattaneo

 

Giada Cattaneo

 

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Giada Cattaneo is an Italian Illustrator with a strong Italian accent. She’s based in Miami Beach, Florida. She studied Art History at the University of Bologna, Italy, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2014, with a thesis on Florida-based sculptor, Duane Hanson.  She recently showcased her watercolor paintings at Jude Papaloko’s “Jakmel Gallery” at Wynwood Art District in Miami.  She’s also collaborated with Italian Editors and Artists Associations: Enrico Folci Editore (Roma), SensoInverso Edizioni (RAvenna), UAO Edizioni (l’Aquila), Eventualmente Edizioni (Palermo), Freaks Edizioni (Faenza), Cacofonico Editore (Faenza), Fermenti Editrice (Roma), Progetto Flaneri Edizioni (Roma), Zacem Cultural Association (Savona), L’URLO Magazine (Ancona), il Cacofonico Magazine (Faenza).

Her paintings have been shown at Jakmel Art Gallery, Wynwood Art District, Miami. Her illustrations have been published in Fourteen Hills Magazine, Black Scat Review, Puerto Del Sol, and Meat for Tea Magazine.

Giada’s Website: www.honeyjade.com

 

 

 

The Illustrative Art of Alina Zamanova

 

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Cristopher Kane

 

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BIO

Alina ZamanovaAlina Zamanova is a fashion illustrator and print/textile designer. She studied at University of the Arts London. Currently looking for permanent print design roles. Require sponsorship for working. Originally from Ukraine. She is also available for freelance opportunities both as a fashion illustrator and print designer.

 

To view more art by Alina:

http://alinazamanova.com/

https://www.instagram.com/alina_zamanova/

https://www.facebook.com/zamanova

 

Experience:

– Print Design for YANA CHERVINSKA SS16 collection; Art direction (make up, hair) for the show during Ukrainian Fashion Week (10.2015)
– Fashion Illustrations for SHOWstudio covering SS16 LFW collections. (09.2015)
– Fashion Illustrations Couture AW15 collections for HUNGER magazine. (07.2015)
– Fashion Illustrations for LITKOVSKAYA fashion brand; sketches for Vogue Italy Talents application (05.2015)
– Fashion Illustration job for VERA MEAT , NYC (06.2015)
– Print Design for ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE AW15 + SS16 + AW16
– Print Design for ELENA REVA AW15/16
– Studio intern at Jean Pierre Braganza (09. 2014)
– Print Textile Intern at ALEXANDER MCQUEEN (10.2013- 06.2014)
– Print Design for VALERY KOVALSKA SS14

Published:

– Sky Ferreira. Instagram (online)
– Marie Claire. Hungary (online)
– Hunger Magazine. Interview in Issue 8.
– Pigeons & Peacocks. Interview online
– Idol magazine (online)
– Vogue Italy, V Talents (online)
– ArtefactLifestyle magazine (online)
– Twenty6 magazine (online)
– DASH magazine (printed issue+Illustrator of the Week online)
– Showstudio blog (online)
– SpookMagazine (online)

Exhibitions:
2015 – External show at London college of Fashion, Shoreditch, London, UK
2014 – Art/Georgia/Paris
2013 – Illustrating Dreams, Fashionstyleology , Dash Magazine partners, at Gallery Different, Central London, UK
2013 – Exhibition at CAFE1001 Brick Lane, LovArts, Chaos Control, London, UK
2012 – Brick Lane Gallery, Art in Mind, London, UK

 

The Art of Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

 

BIO

Claudia Pomowski evokes visions of surreal landscapes and whimsical characters, often connected to German Romanticism. She creates poetic moments in her line drawings, graphics, collages and handmade art books. The freelance graphic artist and lecturer of book design lives in Germany near Trier.

 

See more of Claudia’s work:

www.c-pom.de

https://instagram.com/c.pom/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/75678715@N03/albums

https://www.facebook.com/CPOM-328767923908045/

https://de.pinterest.com/claudiapomowski/

http://www.poste-aerienne.com/Schlaft-Weiter-Mir-Ist-s-Egal

 

 

 

The Art of Howard Skrill

 

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Washington Square Arch

 

Asia Customs House

Asia Customs House

 

Grandfather Daughter Watson2013

Grandfather Daughter Watson

 

Soldier on Tomb

Soldier on Tomb

 

Four Angels

Four Angels

 

Brooklyn War Memorial

Brooklyn War Memorial

 

Flute Player

Flute Player

 

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

 

Washington

Washington

 

 

 

ABOUT

howard skrillThe Anna Pierrepont Series, my drawings of public statuary in NYC, is plein air appropriation. Plein air drawings come into being through visual encounters with the constant changes of light and color in things ideally encountered out of doors. I roll a blue whole foods cart behind me, jammed with a folding chair, pencils, oil and chalk pastels, oil sticks and a pad of paper. I encounter a statue I wish to draw, unfold my chair, lay out my materials and struggle to represent the object emerging from the light and shadows of its surroundings onto a sheet of paper. The drawings are appropriation because the subjects I invariably select are public monuments created by other artists. In 2014, I began to augment the drawings with pictorial essays that enable me to explore beyond the plein air limitations of sight. The essays enable me to explore how the monuments came into being, their connection with their surroundings and their fate after installation. I have named the entire project after Anna Marie Pierrepont, a grand dame of 19th century Brooklyn interred in one of the most magnificent tombs in Greenwood Cemetery. I named the work in her honor as a comment on the gap between my silent and anonymous wanderings and her exulted self presentation.

A central theme of the Anna Pierrepont Series is the utilization of public figurative monuments in the creation and perpetuation of collective ‘American’ identity among a diverse population whose cultural and national identities typically originate elsewhere. In order to create this identity, other identities need to be subsumed and rendered invisible. Statues installed in public spaces act as soil to be churned and tilled in order to transform identities thro

 

 

EXPERIENCE

St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights NY, 2001 – Principal Instructor in Studio Practice

Essex County College, Newark, NJ – 2001 – Senior Lecturer in sculpture and drawing

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 – “HMS Jersey” at the Callahan Center Gallery/St. Francis College and online

[http://howardskrill.blogspot.com/], youtube video of reception

[www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TsThl0aC5I ]

2011 – “Anna Pierrepont Series” at the Callahan Center Gallery at St. Francis

2006 – “Thru Rain” at Chashama Gallery, New York, NY

2006 – “Thru” at Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2001 – CUNY – Queens College, “Thru”, Thesis Exhibition

2000 – Liquitex Corp. – “Artist of the Month”, www.liquitex.com/aotm/howard/home.cfm

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006-13 – “Faculty Exhibition”, CUNY – Bronx Community College

2005 – Dumbo ‘Under the Bridge Festival” at Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2005 -‘Color Mix’, Studio/Gallery 64, Brooklyn, NY

2004 – ‘Friends’, Studio Gallery 64, Brooklyn, NY

2002 – “Site Lines”, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY

2002 – Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2000 – Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY -Intervention/Tiffany Permanent Collection

2000 – “Altered Realities”, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY

1997 – “Urban Landscape”, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Mass.

 

ONLINE PRESENCE

HowardSkrill.blogspot.com – 2011

Kickstarter.com – “Anna Pierrepont Series on the Road”

Electric Gallery – “egallery.com” [Abstract Realism] 2003-

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Green-Wood Blog by Historian Jeff Richman, Fall 2015, [https://www.green-wood.com/2015/another-artist-inspired-by-green-wood/]

Kyso Flash, ‘Works from 1990s’, Fall 2015, [http://www.kysoflash.com/SkrillFivePaintings.aspx]

Red Savina Review, Cover of the Fall 2015 Issue [http://www.redsavinareview.org/]

Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts and Letters of St. Francis College, ‘Civic Virtue’

Columbia Journal [from Columbia University], ‘Liminal’, Summer 2015, [http://columbiajournal.org/the-anna-pierrepont-series-by-howard-skrill/]

Newfound:An Inquiry of Place, ‘Erasure’ [newfoundjournal.org/archives/volume-6/issue…/nonfiction-howard-skrill]

3Elements Review, Issue 5, Fall 2014, plate/http://3elementsreview.com/past-journals,

Doppelgänger, Bludgeon, Dirge] ‘Brooklyn Dirge on pg. 50, 51 and back’

Slag Magazine, Issue 2, Fall 2014/http://issuu.com/jonhenry5/docs/slagmagissue2fina ”Return’ on pg 11′

 

EDUCATION

Queens College – CUNY, 1999-2001, MFA in Studio Arts, June 2001

State University of New York, College at Purchase, BFA with Honors,1985 – Faculty Award in Painting and Drawing

 

The Art of Olga Furman

 

Billie

Billie

 

Welcome

Welcome

 

Taurus

Taurus

 

The Clown

The Clown

 

Wanda

Wanda

 

Sarah

Sarah

 

 

 

ARTIST BIO:

OlgaFurman3I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, where I spent my childhood years. The Soviet Union was ruled by Leonid Brezhnev at the time and the USSR called itself the most powerful country in the world. At age four, my parents left for the Polar Far North for jobs in the Soviet oil and gas industry. They left me with my grandmother, who lived in a town called Luga, which was famously called the “second worst city in Russia” by the great Russian poet Alexander S. Pushkin.

My childhood memories of the town were quite different. The town was situated in a beautiful natural setting consisting of a luscious pine forest and blue lakes covered in yellow water lilies with golden sandy shored. This was my first encounter with vivid colors and I immediately attempted to reproduce them on paper.

My grandmother would spoil me. I distinctly remember the smell of a new pack of crayons she bought me. I loved to color, and my grandma would always buy me coloring books. There were only two different coloring books available in the store. One had line drawings of dogs, and the other of all kinds of fish. I would outline and color them again and again.

At the age of seven I joined my family in the Far North . The colorful palette of Luga changed to the black grey and white of the arctic north. My parents weren’t really supportive of my art. Their plan was to train me as a piano teacher. They never denied my requests for art supplies however, and I was drawing and painting constantly. At school, kids noticed my love for doodling and made me the illustrator of the school newspaper. I really enjoyed doing this. Most of the drawings  I made for the paper were caricatures. I took my inspiration from a magazine called Krokodil (crocodile) which was a Soviet propaganda magazine. One of my first tasks was to copy a caricature of president Reagan playing a grand piano with the caption “Reagan is playing the strings of International Capital.” I was praised for the result. This was the beginning of my fascination with portraits.

We left Russia in 1991. We immigrated to Israel and we were penniless since all our property was taken away by the Soviets together with our citizenships. New life, new language, new college (I studied industrial engineering). I put my art on hold for a while to provide for myself and my family. One of my new friends later on brought me to the School of Art in Tel-Aviv, where I attended still life painting classes.

15 years ago I got married and immigrated to the United States, where we live happily with two kids and a pup in the suburbs of New Jersey. In the present, I am a full time artist and own a home art studio where I create my paintings and give art lessons.

 

My art is available for viewing here:

https://www.facebook.com/olga.furman.1

https://instagram.com/olga.s.furman/

http://olgafurmanart.blogspot.com/

The Art of Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

 

Artist Statement

I create drawings and conceptual artwork, illustrate children’s books and fashion campaigns as well as create concepts for animation and the gaming industry. I currently live and work in Toronto, Canada.

I see my work as an attempt to use color, texture, a combination of motion and emotion, a lot of details and wide range of textures to create a visually stimulating image. It is also a way for me to expand my abilities through constant experimentation.

My drawings tend to show everyday objects and ordinary people combining them with a zero-gravity feeling and a touch of  mystery. I like to involve the viewer and offer to dream a bit about magical moments in our daily lives such as chances, matches and luck. I believe that everything is connected and has its own energy. Everything that makes our lives so fulfilling. We just need to watch carefully.

All my illustrations are made with black ballpoint pen, my favorite tool for creating graphics, which I’ve been devoted to for more than 10 years. Other tools may vary from colored pencils to watercolors and graphic software.

 

BIO

Svetlana GayvoronskayaI was born in Vladivostok, Russia, and spent my first twenty years of life by the seashore. After graduating Far Eastern National University (Vladivostok, Russia) with my Bachelor degree in Math in 2007 I spent about seven years working in the financial industry in Russia and abroad. In 2012, I was in a car accident entailing ten days being in coma and  ten months of rehabilitation. During that period, I started to draw prolifically as an artist, illustrated one book, the full Tarot deck (78 cards) and made more that 50 illustrations for different projects. This was helping me to fill my time as my abilities were pretty limited at that time. After I left hospital I moved to Canada and continued working as an illustrator and concept artist for animation and gaming industry.

 

www.illusori.com

Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/Juspa

 

The Art of Andrew James Woodyard

 

 

Unrealistic Abnormalities

Unrealistic Abnormalities

 

Cluck cluck cluck

Cluck Cluck Cluck

 

Oak Tree

Oak Tree

 

Nature-1, Civilization-0

Nature-1, Civilization-0

 

Circles and Vanishing Points

Circles and Vanishing Points

 

Madness and Mayhem

Madness and Mayhem

 

Red Brick Blue Sky

Red Brick, Blue Sky

 

What Lies Below

What Lies Below

 

Hallway Abstract

Hallway Abstract

 

The Narrows

The Narrows

 

Skeleton

Skeleton

 

 

 

BIO

Andrew WoodyardI’m originally from Running Springs, California, in the San Bernardino Mountains, although I’ve lived all over Southern California. I wrote and drew a few webcomics for a few years, and was the writer and publisher of a web series called Supernaturals Presents for two years which is available to read online. I’ve had artwork, fiction and poetry published in Phineas Literary Magazine, Morpheus Tales, Statement, Inlandia and The Realms Beyond since 2014. I’m currently an illustration student at Cal State Fullerton.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Art is weird and so am I. I love the traditional use of perspective and the interplay between light and shadows. At the same time I’m drawn to the abstract and the macabre. My work ranges from mechanically themed abstract drawings with a limited use of perspective to depictions of horrifying nightmares.

I primarily use a variety of markers and pens for my work, which allows me to produce work with an obsessive amount of detail, while at the same time leaving great expanses of white negative space open to balance out the extreme complexity. In addition, my work is framed with a backbone of thick graphic lines of solid black that gives it a bold IN-YOUR-FACE look. More than anything, my work is full of patterns which make it interesting to get up close to and study, but at the same time when you step back you’ll see the complete picture out of all the detail. I find myself moving toward a more gestural style with more uneven, jagged lines in big, bold, black strokes of ink, and with splashes of color with strong highlights in-between all of that.

I’m particularly interested in themes of world culture, human evolution, science fiction, feminism and gender equality. My work has been influenced by contemporary artists like Jeff Soto, Brian Cooper, Susan Logoreci, and Sam Bernal: all very modern artists who use very detail oriented styles with their work, and often strong graphic styles as well. In addition, I’ve always been inspired by artists like Piet Mondrian, Andre Derain, and Franz Kline.

EXHIBITIONS

I’ve shown artwork at the Center Gallery at Cal State Fullerton, the Gresham Art Gallery in San Bernardino, as well as the Redlands Art Association Gallery, and the Avantgarden Gallery in Santa Ana.

http://falconire.deviantart.com/gallery/

Andrew James Woodyard (@roadkilraven) | Twitter

Andrew James Woodyard (@andrewjameswoodyardart) • Instagram photos and videos

The Art of Bill Wolak

 

Rhythmic Triggers

Rhythmic Triggers

 

Where Lightning Hesitates

Where Lightning Hesitates

 

Ibycus Agrees

Ibycus Agrees

 

Bittersweet

Bittersweet

 

Fleeting Things

Fleeting Things

 

Graceful as Fire

Graceful as Fire

 

The Net of Spells

The Net of Spells

 

Between the Hallucination and the Footnote

Between the Hallucination and the Footnote

 

Frantic Pleasures

Frantic Pleasures

 

Unrecognizable Tenderness

Unrecognizable Tenderness

 

 

Artist Statement

Collage undresses the darkness with a mirror’s secret undertow. It’s a dance done on burning kites while dreaming at the speed of light. Expectant as nakedness, collage is a door that surfaces in the shipwreck of your sleep. It’s a caress with the irresistible softness of a slipknot in a velvet blindfold. At its best, like poetry, collage is a moan just beyond delirium.

I make collages out of all kinds of materials. Most are made out of paper engravings. Many collages are digitally generated or enhanced.

 

BIO

Bill WolakBill Wolak is a poet, photographer, and collage artist. His collages have been published in The Annual, Peculiar Mormyrid, Danse Macabre, Dirty Chai, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, Lost Coast Review, Yellow Chair Review, Otis Nebula, and Horror Sleaze Trash. He has just published his twelfth book of poetry entitled Love Opens the Hands with Nirala Press. Recently, he was a featured poet at The Hyderabad Literary Festival.  Mr. Wolak teaches Creative Writing at William Paterson University

 

 

 

The Fine, Dark Art of Daniele Serra

 

Mermaid by Serra

Mermaid

 

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End

 

Alien

Alien

 

Erotic No. 1

Erotic No. 1

 

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan’s Labyrinth

 

Madame

Madame

 

Eyes

Eyes

 

Deep River

Deep River

 

 

 

 

BIO

Daniele Serra was born and lives in Italy. He works as an illustrator and comic artist. His work has been published in Europe, Australia, United States and Japan. He has worked for DC Comics, Image Comics, Cemetery Dance, Weird Tales magazine, PS Publishing and other publications, and he won the British Fantasy Award.

TO VIEW MORE OF DANIELE’s WORK:   
www.multigrade.it
http://danieleserra.bigcartel.com/
http://www.spiderwebart.com/products.asp?artist=Daniele+Serra

The Other Worldly Art of James Lipnickas

 

 

Creature from Space

Creature from Space

 

James Lipnickas art

It Arrived Early

 

James Lipnickas

The James Howling Mysteries

 

James Lipnickas art

The James Howling Mysteries

 

James Lipnickas

The Creepers

 

James Lipnickas

The Creepers

 

James Lipnickas

The Creepers

 

James Lipnickas

The Creepers

 

James Lipnickas

The Creepers

 

James Lipnickas

The Gloaming

 

James Lipnickas

The Looming

 

James Lipnickas

The Silent Drive

 

James Lipnickas

The Snatchers

 

James Lipnickas

What Lurks at Night

 

 

BIO

James LipnickasI am heavily influenced by old sci-fi, mystery and horror movies, monsters, UFOs, hauntings and unexplained events. I love to draw and find inspiration from the strange and unusual. I attended the School of Visual Arts and majored in Illustration in 2012.

Black and white photos have always captured me, specifically their tonal representation. I try to evoke that when creating my pictures. I live in an old cape in the woods of New England. Ideas tend to come to me late at night when everything is quiet. Something about the dark and the silence always gets my imagination going. I start sketching ideas. The planning stage never lasts long and I go right into the drawing. I tend to work small. I like the portability of it.

 

All pieces are pencil on paper.
All images ©James Lipnickas

Contact Info: James Lipnickas

Email: jameslipnickas@gmail.com
Website: www.jameslipnickas.com
Blog: jlipnickas.blogspot.com
Twitter: @jameslipnickas

The Graphic Artistry of Allen Forrest

 

Bay Area Figurative Revisited James Weeks Two Musicians

Bay Area Figurative Revisited James Weeks Two Musicians

 

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Bar Area Figurative Revisited – Joan Brown 1

 

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Bay Area Figurative Revisited – Joan Brown 3

 

german expressionism revisited alexej jawlensky

German Expressionism Revisited Alexej Jawlensky

 

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German Expressionism Revisited Otto Dix

 

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German Expressionism Revisited Otto Mueller

 

Cuba Cars 2

Cuba Cars 2

 

cuba_cars_5

Cuba Cars 5

 

jacob_lawrence_revisited_blind_beggars

Jacob Lawrence Revisited – Blind Beggars

 

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Jacob_Lawrence Revisited – Study for Munich Games

 

city_life_model

City Life Model

 

city_life_woman_and_man

City Life – Woman and Man

 

gastown_railroad_yard_vancouver

Gastown Railroad Yard – Vancouver, BC

 

Artist Statement

Painting is a cross between a crap shoot, finding your way out of the woods, and performing a magic
act. Each time I begin to paint I feel like I am walking a tightrope—sometimes scary, sometimes
exciting, sometimes very quiet, and always, always surprising; leading me where I never expected to
go. Doing art makes me lose all sense of time and place and go inside one long moment of creating.
Whenever I feel a painting in my gut, I know this is why I paint. The colors are the message, I feel
them before my mind has a chance to get involved. Color is the most agile and dynamic medium to
create joy. And if you can find joy in your art, then you’ve found something worth holding on to.

 

BIO

allen forrestBorn in Canada and bred in the U.S., Allen Forrest has worked in many mediums: computer graphics, theater, digital music, film, video, drawing and painting. Allen studied acting in the Columbia Pictures Talent Program in Los Angeles and digital media in art and design at Bellevue College (receiving degrees in Web Multimedia Authoring and Digital Video Production.) He currently works in the Vancouver, Canada, as a graphic artist and painter. He is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University’s Reed Magazine and his Bel Red painting series is part of the Bellevue College Foundation’s permanent art collection. Forrest’s expressive drawing and painting style is a mix of avant-garde expressionism and post-Impressionist elements reminiscent of van Gogh, creating emotion on canvas.

Art website:
http://allen-forrest.fineartamerica.com/
Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/artgrafiken
Portfolio: published works:
http://www.art-grafiken.blogspot.ca/

 

The Art of Fashion

by Natalia Jheté

 

ABC's of Fashion

ABC’s of Fashion

 

Popovy art

Popovy art

 

ANTWERP The Next Chapter Dries van Noten

ANTWERP The Next Chapter Dries van Noten

 

Hats off Thom Browne

Hats off Thom Browne

 

Nude

Nude

 

 

King Cat

King Cat

 

Hats 0ff Yoshi

Hats 0ff Yoshi

 

 
Natalia JheteMiami native, Manhattan resident, Natalia Jheté is steadily making her mark while pursuing both illustration and fashion design. Natalia attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco for women’s wear design and soon after moved to New York City. After several design internships Natalia realized that she could use her background as an illustrator to open doorways into the industry, and she hasn’t stopped yet. Currently, Natalia is working as a freelance fashion illustrator, contributing to magazines and editorials, as well as designing for the promising new brand Jheté.

 

You can see more of Natalia’s work here:

The Art of Linda Tillman

Celebrating Midcentury Modern

 

1957 Dodge Convertible

1957 Dodge Convertible

 

Corgi on White Eames Chair

 

Three Cats Neimeyer

Three Cats Neimeyer

 

Car Wash

Car Wash

 

Great Dane's Room

Great Dane’s Room

 

Newlywed's Suburbia

Newlywed’s Suburbia

 

Airlines

Airlines

 

Two Cats Z Chairs

Two Cats Z Chairs

 

Guitar Mandolin

Guitar Mandolin

 

Golden Retriver Pulling Float

Golden Retriever Pulling Float

 

Dogs Watching TV

Dogs Watching TV

 

 

BIO

linda tillmanA graduate of Syracuse University School of Art and New York University, I have been a textile, apparel and home products designer for three decades, working in the New York and Los Angeles garment and design districts. I began painting canvases in 2004 and have experimented with various styles. I started with a series of large expressionist botanicals and have since moved on to more illustrative studies of mid century modern themes. As a long time collector of Eames Era furnishings, I find the subjects fun and inspiring. I like to add my own twist to the sometimes stark Eames elements by posing pets in the settings. I am also intrigued by the futuristic space age themes from the period, and like to add mystery and humor to my works.

I currently live and work in my suburban home in Greensboro, North Carolina. I have two Flat-Coated Retrievers and two mixed breed cats who make my home a warm and happy place. When I am not designing or painting, I am usually out working in my gardens.

 

To see more work, go to:
FaceBook Page: Artist Linda Tillman
Etsy Store: LTillmanArt
Ebay Store: ALT Gallery
Website: http://www.artistlindatillman.com

See more of Linda’s work, Here.

 The Art of Lauren Martino

 

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Lauren Martino Art

Lauren Martino Art

 

Lauren Martino Art

 

Lauren Martino

 

Lauren Martino Art

 

Lauren Martino Art

 

Lauren Martino Art

 

Lauren Martino Art

 

Lauren Martino Art

 

Women We Worship

by Lauren Martino

 

we worship the women who are barely there
pigment void eyes
and platinum white hair
her torso is so thin she threatens to disappear
her skin is so white it’s verging on clear
she is a silent image with no voice of her own
she is an object of perfection — a capitalist drone
she is the height of Dennett’s zimbo —
the disengaged bimbo
and we’ll never hear her theory of mind
and she’ll never skull-crushingly illuminate humankind.

But there are these women who are filled to the brim
with pigments so demanding —
as to color the passion within
with voices so loud your brain will vibrate
and you will thank her out loud for showing you heaven’s gate

Her curves are fierce with unapologetic life
and her enormous dark eyes strike like an amorous knife
We must worship the earth as we worship the air
we must worship the women who are actually there.

 

 

The Vision of Collision

We are perched on a peak as we watch it collide,
deep and destructive.

The static in our veins
is the wreckage of the week
and the avalanche has become conductive.

We will see it unfold
before we have time to catch up
and the bottom falls out all over.

We crack like eggs into a syrupy glue,
the contents of our souls simmer out like steam.

We are but a dream in the land of a baffled philosopher.

And so we lay naked,
confused,
soulless,
in the contents of one another
hoping to make something more than a child.

More than another one
of what we are
or always were
or became.

We are the seams of dreams
meeting as one defies
the Other
and we seek to retreat
from the hearts pulse
into the cosmic beat.

 

Internal Battles

Claustrophobic thoughts, I must be insane
Packed tight in the tousled tubes of my brain
Electric, shaking, wild, and dense
A vicarious vacuum of intangible sense.

Conflicted and raw, my heart beats in my eyes
Pick the wrong card and the fantasy dies.
Muffled truths cry out in dirty-rotten air
You’ve said it before mama, you sincerely don’t care.

But ill stand idle in the night neglecting the drowning hours
Dismal and dead are their strong standing forever-powers.
Callous deceiver,
Your mind is so weak.
Notorious griever,
Your moans are so meek.

Now picture this

Without word or a rhyme

You drop into space

One inch at a time.

Give me your eyes
I can give them true vision

Now give me your heart
It’s not your decision.

 

 

Artist Statement:

It feels as if I am filling in an impulse, or a beat, what feels like an intuitive template or scaffold that I never asked or looked for. The process of my work often feels more like an unfolding rather than a directed venture there is never a point A to B, Its a point A to which ever point feels natural. My portraits are all informed by the psychology and personality of the subject as well as my own state. I strive to find an integral balance of external and internal impressions, a marriage of the objective and subjective. I would consider my photography to be an attempt to use my perspective and addition of various edits to reconcile the objective information a camera provides with the subjectivity of the shooter’s perspective and imagination. Finally, my abstracted pieces are the expression and solidification of something that I cannot verbalize, they are physical imprints of my innermost personal interpretation of reality. All of my pieces are learning experiences, I have mastery over none of them nor do I attempt to, i wish only for my pieces to reflect intentionality and to have autonomous agency.

 

BIO:

Lauren MartinoMy name is Lauren Martino and I refuse to write about myself in the third person. I paint, I write poems, I take pictures, I draw, I sculpt, I build sets, I make things. The day I stop learning is the day I die. I am the daughter of two painters who gave me the experience of a lifetime by raising my twin brother and I in a building called Westbeth Artists Housing. I pray one day to be at least half as talented as they are. Taking summer classes at FIT throughout my adolescence had an enormous part in shaping me into who I am today. I am currently embarking on a new journey as a part time student at the New York Studio School. I have shown at Westbeth Gallery under the alias of Heather Bridges because if they knew how old I was they wouldn’t have accepted my work. I have worked as a Set Designer for the ID channel and other independent projects. I am young, with time I will collect more anecdotes to inspire and impress perfect strangers, but for now this is me and that is all.

 

To view more of Lauren’s work:

 

 

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