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Artist Spotlight: Pablo González-Trejo

Zachary Hayes — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:56:30 +0000

Love the work of Cuban born Pablo González-Trejo.

If what we are is based on the experiences we have lived, and the memories of these experiences mutate with time, then we are no more than just a metaphor of ourselves. – Pablo González-Trejo

Artist Spotlight: Justin M. Maller

Zachary Hayes — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:23:53 +0000

Justin Maller is a freelance illustrator and art director working out of Melbourne Australia. Gallery after the jump.

Artist Spotlight: Akane Koide

Zachary Hayes — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:44:36 +0000

In 2006, Tokyo born Akane Koide presented a booth at GEISAI, and was scouted by Takashi Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki artist collective at the young age of 15. The themes of her works speak of the trials and tribulations of junior and high-school students, expressed firsthand by junior-high school student Koide.

She has what I consider the “Murakami visual aesthetic”, as the majority of the artists in Murakami’s KaiKai Kiki collective all have a very similar “drawn-by-a-child-with-crayons” appeal (which is a drastic juxtaposition to Murakami’s mechanical like percision in his own works). However, do not confuse my use of the term “visual aesthetic” with Murakami’s superflat movement, which Koide’s work is undoubtedly apart of. Superflat (to me, at least) is more of a term for the movement or genre that Koide’s work is a part of; and to which predominantly all Japanese flattened anime-esque artworks are apart of. Gallery after the jump.

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Artist Spotlight: Alexandros Vasmoulakis

Zachary Hayes — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:10:14 +0000

Alexandros Vasmoulakis is a very fascinating Greek artist I recently came across.

The revolution begins from within. Deviating Greece’s political inanity Alexandros Vasmoulakis introduces his individuals, as he refers to his figures, in a massive, dark and white, melting party. “Individual means indivisible”, says Vasmoulakis, “any singular thing, the basic unit, subject or object, the one who suffers or the one who hurts, a bachelor or the couple among strangers, any specific object in a collection”. Yet individuals interweave in front of Vasmoulakis’s eyes in an unforeseen way.
His present work culls from faces and sentiments. Wide-open colorful eyes, shattered bodies, at times dynamic at times paralyzed isolated or coupled Vasmoulakis’ individuals debate openly with the audience in the most sharp and eloquent way. Hey Ho! they scream through Syd Barrett’s lyrics, Here we go ever so high, rising in revolt initially against some obscure, erotic probably, opponent but essentially against their same self.

Gallery after the jump.

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Artist Spotlight: Ceslovas Cesnakevicius

Zachary Hayes — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:50:43 +0000

Ceslovas Cesnakevicius is 30 year old digital artist from Lithuania. My first thought when I saw Ceslovas’ work was “René Magritte.” And with the balloons, top hats and umbrellas seen in Ceslovas’ work, I don’t think the comparisons are unintentional, to say the least. Gallery after the jump.

Via: booooooom.com

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Artist Spotlight: Jesse Auersalo

Zachary Hayes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:02:42 +0000

Jesse Auersalo is graphic artist and illustrator from Finland. As a freelance designer he has worked with magazines like Grafik, Odd At Large, Kasino A4, Image, Muoto, Veli, Hufvudstadsbladet, Happi, Kerho and Nöjesguiden. Jesse was recently part of the Night On Earth show which held exhibitions in Berlin, Shanghai and Helsinki.

Limited gallery after the jump, please visit his website for a full selection.

Artist Spotlight: Kustaa Saksi

Zachary Hayes — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:13:35 +0000

Via: abduzeedo.com

Artist Spotlight: Oleg Duryagin

Zachary Hayes — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:55:48 +0000

The “Naked Faces” project is devoted to relationship between human’s inner world with human’s behaviour in society. The society still restricts behaviour and thought of a human being.
This project is a kind of a protest that is to show that a person should remain who he is and that people should perceive him in the way he is. The persons presented in my works lack individuality: the eyebrowes and the eyelashes are removed, the skin is smoothed. - Oleg

More images after the jump.

Via: Art Limited
Website: douart.ru