Hong Chun Zhang’s descriptions of hair in charcoal are large and realistic portraits of Zhang and her twin sister, impressive in technique and imposing scale (each four by ten feet). And as the only representational drawings in Infinite Line, their content, and concepts enter with greater force. Zhang has a clear desire to establish these works contextually. Hair is unusual; while the rest of the visible body is built and destroyed vertically, layers sloughed and rebuilt, hair speaks in linear narrative, growth inscribing history. Zhang’s body of work is primarily dedicated to her own cultural history, family and ancestry, and these drawings are a frontispiece, working as resounding physical records.

Flyapart are an European based illustration and design collective. They promote their work through personal and collaborative projects, self-initiated and commissioned. The group create individual artwork of common interest and showcase their work together via exhibitions, zines and other publications. Flyapart strive to provide an eclectic and diverse range of artworks. The result is what Flyapart hopes to be challenging and beautiful imagery.

Nov 182009

Heiko MĂĽller is based in Hamburg, Germany. Outside his native country his paintings and drawings have been shown in Estonia, New York, Paris, Basel, Seattle and Los Angeles. Much of his art is about the dark goings-on behind nature and animal kingdom. Continue reading »

Nov 052009

Cornelia Renz, born in 1966 in Kaufbeuren, Germany, is a Berlin-based artist who draws large, provocative cartoon images of chubby, exotically costumed young girls with adult characteristics of sexuality and aggression, and imagery reminiscent of Italian Renaissance masterpieces by Botticelli, Bronzino, and others. Ms. Renz draws with felt-tip markers on both sides of big sheets of acrylic glass as well as on underlying white panels, creating much linear complexity. And she encloses her pictures appropriately in clinical white plastic frames of her own devising. Continue reading »

Sep 202009

Proliferation

Scott G Brooks is originally from Flint, Michigan, and currently lives and works in Washington, DC. His subject matter ranges from simple portraiture to intricate narratives. In his paintings, he takes social, psychological, and political issues and injects them with a dark sense of humor. Anatomical distortions separate the figures from the photographic ideal, which gives him the freedom to create his own distorted reality. His work is described as twisted and offbeat, sentimental, and disturbing. Continue reading »

Aug 222009

kitchenleak

New York based artist Taylor McKimens creates installations that are like three-dimensional cartoons. As well as showing his two-dimensional works and painting directly onto the wall, he uses paper and cardboard to make three-dimensional alterations to the space, creating new walls, objects and even people. The world he creates is one in which everything is deteriorating: you find yourself surrounded by broken windows, leaks and puddles, moulding walls and the recurrent image of a sweaty fat man standing or sitting alone in his underpants. Continue reading »

Aug 132009

Laurie Lipton

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Jul 252009

The Unspeakable Dinner Party

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of 4. She developed a way of drawing that mimicked the technique by building up thousands of tiny lines to get a tone, and she was able to get the same kind of luminous detail that the 17th century Flemish painters had achieved. Continue reading »

Jul 172009

The Reds

Stephanie Brown is an incredibly talented artist. She is very skilled technically, metaphysically, and her compositions are righteous. Continue reading »

Jul 122009

Trumpets of Datura

Krista Huot spent her formative years in the banshee-haunted forests of British Columbia, where she spent her time drawing and hunting a mystical floating skull named Xiclotl through a spectral dreamscape. Krista’s interests include howling, heavy metal, wine, late-night snack plates and ritual murder (the research of, not the act of). She resides in a 100 year-old rowhouse in the wrought-iron city of Montreal, with her boyfriend Florent and their two cats Gotham and Valhalla. Continue reading »

Jul 102009

13x30

John Ryan Solis was born in New Jersey and raised in New York. He received his BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in the spring of 2008. Solis is currently working with the multi-award winning design studio Vault49, and continues to work on his solo projects. His diverse, beautiful, and layered artworks are often romantic but sometimes have a sinister or weird tinge – women without faces, beauties with exposed innards and mutant animal/ladies. Continue reading »

Jun 232009

So fresh and so clean

Esra Røise is a skilled freelance illustrator, living and working in Oslo, Norway. She started out with two years at Einar Granum School of Arts, and is currently taking her bachelor degree in Visual Communications at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo.
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Jun 202009

Alliance, 2009

Scott Anderson’s paintings begin with a reflection on archetypes from the history of painting, such as the pastoral landscape, the religious narrative, or the glorifying portrait. A core image is developed using a patchwork of approaches and techniques, from memory to photo-based source material. Continue reading »

May 172009

Untitled, 2006

John Kleckner was born 1978 in the United States; lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Shoplifting images from art history, John Kleckner’s drawings subscribe to a complex relationship between authorship, contemporary art, and its lineage. Rejecting post-modern notions of appropriation as allegory, Kleckner engages in the old masters’ tradition of studying his predecessors – not as a means of perfecting technique – but to satiate his desire to infiltrate and possess the immaculate. Attracted to the timeless subject matter of portraiture, mythology, and botanical motifs, Kleckner recomposes archival prints and paintings as a way to make them his own. Continue reading »

May 082009

The Mountain Man Dreams Of His Bounty

William Crump grew up in the sticks of Clemmons, N.C. He received his BFA from Ringling School of Art, and eventually moved to Williamsburg in 1998. After years of not getting it, he up and transplanted his life to the East Village, where he lives with his wife and daughter. Continue reading »

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