Pat Perry is an artist and illustrator who calls Grand Rapids, Michigan home. The lands of the north, colorful people, music, and the ordinary streets of the Midwest have always moved him. In between showing his art from coast to coast or working with an assortment of clients, Pat travels as much as possible. Although he is happy to be able to speak and have an audience through his artwork, he does his best everyday to listen and learn from the world he lives in.
For more than two decades, multi-artist Beverly Fishman has explored our relationship to science and medicine in a variety of different media. Mixing optical patterns with vibrant colours and representational elements taken from pharmaceuticals and scientific imaging system her paintings, sculptures, and work on paper raise the question about the relationship between technology, our bodies and our minds. Her exhibition ‘Pill Spill’ consisted of filling the Toledo Muesum of Art with more than 120 unique glass capsulas in different sizes. An idea with is both beautiful, addictive and totally free od unpleasant side effects.
Artist James Marshall – commonly know as Dalek – made his mark in the art world with his iconic Space Monkey character, which looks like a catatonic twisted mouse. Rendered in a minimalistic, flat style, Dalek used the Space Monkey as an alter ego, a visual manifestation of his feelings, as well as his love for the absurdity of human interactions. But in 2007 he decided to leave his beloved monkey behind and ever since his style has developed into profusion and hyper-abundance of colours and planes of space. His work has been featured in various books as well as on skateboard decks, sneakers, magazines and sculptures. Enjoy!
As you might already know, we are huge fans of hyper realistic painting, so coming across the work of Ian Reynold was a real treat. Reynold is only 23 years old, based in Chicago and a classically trained musician. Yes sir, he hasn’t taken a single class in painting and everything he knows he has learnt himself. Normally, he works with oil on linen and spends up to 400 hours on each painting. Pretty impressive!
Jen Stark (born 1983 in Miami, Florida) is a contemporary artist who both draws and animates, but what really makes her stand out are her intriguing paper sculptures inspired by wormholes, microscopic patterns and sliced anatomy.
Through her mandala-like art she raises questions about spirituality, replication and infinity, echoing patterns and intelligent designs found in nature. She has exhibited her works in various galleries around the U.S. like the Girls’ Club Collection, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami. She was also the proud recipient of the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium’s Visual and Media Artists Fellowship in 2008.
Lola Dupré is a artist and illustrator currently working near Avignon in the south of France. Using paper, scissors and glue she disassembles and assembles photographs into meticulously, contoured mosaic-like collages. Wow wow wow!
David Chung aka ‘The Chung!!‘ sure knows how to make people laugh. His artwork, which filled with humor and awkwardness, works as a sort of catharsis for the moments of humiliation and he reminds us to step back, stop taking ourselves so seriously, and use the moment to laugh at our failures. The Chung!! has shown in galleries all over Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and parts of Europe. He currently works full time during the day as a Background Designer for Nickelodeon and a fine artist by night.
Zhong Biao was born in 1968 in the middle of the Chinese Sichuan Province. After graduating in from China’s Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied oil painting, his work has been exhibited all over the world. Actually it might not be over the top to call him China’s most famous contemporary paintor and over the years he has been taking on the visual experiences of an era as the image source of his works, including sculpture and china representing China’s past glories, the labor models of the Cultural Revolution, and such symbols of modern life as McDonalds and Boeing aircrafts.
Alex McLeod lives and works in Toronto, Canada, where he constructs hyperrealistic 3D environments filled with crystalline mountains, fiery lakes and rotund clouds, all rendered in a sickly sweet and gooey candy-colored palette. This past year he has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, San Jose, Denver, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, Toronto and Sweden. Yummy!
Muralist, photographer, painter, music video creator… Artist Maya Hayuk maintains a full time, independent studio practice in Brooklyn, New York by way of San Francisco, Baltimore, Boston and Toronto. From her large-scale murals to small works on paper, her obsession with symmetry and nourishing color play out in what might be views from the Hubble Telescope, airbrushed nail art, Mexican woven blankets and Ukrainian Easter eggs. Along with her solo work, Hayuk frequently collaborates with other artists and musicians. She’s made album covers, posters, tee shirts, photographs, videos, video footage, murals and stage sets for Rye Rye/ M.I.A, The Akron Family, TV on the Radio, Devendra Banhardt, Prefuse 73, Awesome Color, Oakley Hall, Home, Animal Collective and The Beastie Boys, amongst others.
Jaroslaw Kukowski, also known as Poland’s greatest realistic or hyper realistic painter, debuted in Gdansk at the Stara Laznia Gallery in 1994. Since then his work has been exhibited in both Denmark, Germany, the USA and Canada and it didn’t take him long to make himself a name on the international art scene. The images up here are from his serie ‘Un-dreams’.
Sweet dreams!
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