Jeana Sohn was born and raised in Korea. Currently she lives and works in Los Angeles with her husband and three animals. Her drawings and paintings combine the straightforwardness of children’s book illustration with the subdued color palate of weathered folk signage and free-flowing composition of street art. Continue reading »
Laura Laine is a freelance illustrator based in Helsinki, Finland. The melancholic gaze and fluidity of her stick like figures are inspired by different things at different times, but mostly things related to fashion, literature or art. Continue reading »
Maira Kalman, born in 1949, is an American illustrator, author, artist, and designer. Born in Tel Aviv, Kalman came to New York City with her family at age 4. She has written and illustrated 12 children’s books, and her artwork is featured in a recent edition of Strunk and White’s “Elements of Style.” She has done The New Yorker covers and recently created a panel story for The Rosenbach Museum and Library’s 21st-Century Abe Web project. Check out her blog on NYTimes “And the Pursuit of Happiness“, where she tells stories in a very lovely way. Continue reading »
Keith Shore was born in 1979 in Bensalem, PA. He now lives and works in New Jersey, alongside a canal that cradles the Delaware River. He designs and illustrates and makes paintings and drawings for gallery shows. I like Shore’s coloring, the way he overlays color on color to create delicate visual pops in his work. Really lovely work. Continue reading »
Erica Shires is a New York based photographer and artist. Her work is concerned with so many various interlinking themes but predominantly they are nostalgia and mortality. The antiquated feel of vintage clothing makes her models resemble cameos while the locales of concrete and fences, school buses and parks remind us of childhood field trips and haunted houses. There’s something broken in her work, a slight fear of something omnipresent though the viewer is never privy to what this is. Continue reading »
A solitary figure sits on a bridge, dreaming no doubt of one day invading Poland.
This watercolour is thought to be the earliest self-portrait by Adolf Hitler, painted in 1910 when the future Fuhrer was 21 and a struggling artist. Continue reading »
Frank Rothe (b. DDR, 1972) grew up in East Berlin. At the age of 19 he began to write for newspapers and periodicals. Later he became a photographer, and has done series on Thai transvestites, unusual portrait of China ‘China Naked’ and on the Germans and their weapons, among other topics. Continue reading »
Tiana Markova-Gold is a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer. She has traveled extensively through the Caribbean, Central America, South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Some of her most in-depth work has been in Haiti where she spent three months in 2004 documenting Haitian life and culture during the tumultuous time leading up to and following Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s departure. During the summer of 2005 she spent four weeks in West Africa working on a story about literacy in the Tuareg community of northern Niger. She is currently working on a long-term project about the lives of sex workers in New York City. Continue reading »
Julia Peirone was born in 1973 in Sweden; lives and works in Stockholm. Julia documents her every day surroundings then deconstructs the images only to reconstruct them, creating her own story. The figures in her images exist in their own time and place; unaware of whom they share their compositions with. The images are both humorous and lonely. Continue reading »
Will Cotton (b. 1965, Melrose, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American painter; lives and works in New York City. His primary subjects are candy and naked women, often in combination.
Will’s paintings often feature baked goods such as a gingerbread house or a mobile home made of waffles. He has a professional oven in his studio and makes all of these himself. Then uses them as models for the paintings. Continue reading »
Line drawings on photos by Josh Poehlein from Salt Lake City. Continue reading »
Hajime Sorayama was born in 1947 in Ehime prefecture, Japan. He is known world-wide for his imaginative and highly accomplished paintings of beautiful women. Using brush, pencil and acrylic paint, airbrushing only finishing details, he creates memorable images in a hyper-realistic style. He is often referred to as the contemporary Vargas by those familiar with his pin-up style works, and is respected by artists and illustrators for his perfect technique. Nudity is ahead. Continue reading »
Natalie Shau is a talented young digital artist from Vilnius, Lithuanian. She specializes in blending photo manipulation, 3D design and digital painting (using mostly photoshop) to create her often creepy, gothic, doll, fairytale figures. Natalie’s inspiration for these wonderful renditions comes from lowbrow artist’s such as Ray Caesar, Trevor Brown and Mark Ryden. Her style is a macabre to grotesque “baby art“, heavily influenced by religious imagery and fantasy art. Continue reading »
Louise aka Art&Ghosts creates stunning digital paintings/illustration. She uses photoshop /wacom combo to meticulously handcolor each image.These are inspired from a plethora of sources, including fairytales, mythology, dolls, spectres, dreams and nature. Continue reading »
Michelle Araujo, aka Mia was born in the breadbasket of pop surrealism, Los Angeles, and grew up in a world saturated in animation and cartoons. She believes that each individual contains an entire universe within them and strives to depict this in her paintings. Her work reads as personal portraits that represent all the unseen forces at work within the subject, be it spirits, inner demons, conflicting emotions or the imagination, resulting in an amalgam of imagery. Continue reading »
Based in Paris, Marguerite Sauvage has worked since 2001 as an illustrator, artist and animator creating chic modern illustrations that capture the lifestyle of today’s trendsetters. Her eye-catching work is soft yet powerful, combining sophisticated European sensibilities with line-work inspired by both traditional Japanese art and contemporary Japanese culture. Continue reading »
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