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Carlos Tardez has a talent for portraiture across two- and three-dimensional forms. Yet, it’s in his sculptures that the surreal nature of his works becomes visceral, whether evoking laughter, intrigue, or both. These small figures are often paired with normal-sized, found objects. These interactions create strange narratives. “In Carlos Tardez´s sculptures there´s an idea of a game of meanings, just...
Mark Jenkins (born 1970) is an American artist who makes sculptural street installations. Jenkins' practice of street art is to use the "street as a stage" where his sculptures interact with the surrounding environment including passersby who unknowingly become actors. His installations often draw the attention of the police. His work has been described as whimsical, macabre, shocking and...
“Bodies in Urban Spaces” by Willi Dorner is an example of when art comes to life, it is a trail that is ever changing, choreographed specifically for a group of dancers. The dances bring the art to life and take the audience through selected parts of public and semi-public spaces. What the audience experiences is the corporeal elements of...
"Hello. My name is Warren Keelan, I am a seascape and ocean photographer living on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. I spend most of my days alongside or within the ocean, interpreting what I see through the medium of digital photography. I’ve always had a fascination with nature, especially the ocean and its ever changing forms, and I...
Born in 1969 in Tacoma Washington. Josh Keyes received his BFA in 1992 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in 1998 from Yale University School of Art. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally and has work in private and public collections. Keyes currently lives and works in Portland Oregon with his...
Kevin Peterson studied art at Austin College in Sherman, TX where he received his BFA in 2001. Kevin now makes his home in Houston, TX where he works out of Winter Street Studios. Kevin Peterson | My work is about the varied journeys we take through life. It's about growing up and living in a world that is broken. These...
PHOTOGRAPHER BOGDAN GIRBOVAN IS THE AUTHOR OF THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING “10/1” IMAGE SERIES, WHICH CONSISTS OF 10 PHOTOS OF 10 SINGLE-ROOM FLATS PLACED ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER LOCATED IN A 10-STOREY APARTMENT COMPLEX IN THE EASTERN SIDE OF BUCHAREST, ROMANIA. What started as an idea to learn more about himself through photography has evolved in a thorough image project aiming...
Jung Yeon Min’s works are highly imaginative and rich. One finds multiple worlds, the extraordinary and the realistic, notions of micro and macro, and manipulations of space and time in her work. Specifically, her work offers two equal but divergent investigations. On the one hand, she envisions and explores a mysterious and fantastical world. In a separate but concurrent...
Julien Pacaud is a french artist and illustrator, living and working in Paris, France. Before becoming an illustrator, he was, by turns : an astrophysician, an international snooker player, a hypnotist and an esperanto teacher. He hopes he can someday have enough free time to devote himself to his real passion : time travel. In the meantime, he create images...
These objects are so wonderfully annoying in their uselessness that you stand before them, making them functional – “If you only hit with the side of the bat, you’d miss the hole; perhaps you could smack the dough rather than roll it,” but in truth it’s just not going to happen. Giuseppe Colarusso’s series Improbability tests our handle on frustration...
My name is Johan Thörnqvist and I am a Illustrator and animator. I work in print, video and web. I also dream of making comics and games. Johan Thörnqvist is an intriguing artist who recently caught our eye. He’s based in Helsingborg (in Sweden, near Malmö). His charming work incorporates whimsical drawings over photographs – imaginative scenes that really appeal to...
An Austrian photographer has put together a fascinating photo series of happy accidents. Stefan Draschan spends a lot of time with his camera in museums in Europe. There, thanks to a lot of patience, he's managed to capture a lot of images of other museum-goers — who inadvertently matched the paintings in front of them. Each of his shots features a...
Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by a military force to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. In practice, this means applying colour and materials to military equipment of all kinds, including vehicles, ships, aircraft, gun positions and battledress, either to conceal it from observation (crypsis), or to make it appear as something else (mimicry)....
Tattooed on someone's leg, a ballerina stands tall and poised, holding her head high while balancing on her toes. She looks to the sky with the same grace and determination that real life ballerinas have. On the inside of another person's arm, a small cartoon astronaut floats in space, sending a tiny paper airplane into the ether. Tattooed illustrations...
Sad Topographies is an illustrated guide for the melancholic among us. Dispirited travellers rejoice as Damien Rudd journeys across continents in search of the world's most joyless place names and their fascinating etymologies. Behind each lugubrious place name exists a story, a richly interwoven narrative of mythology, history, landscape, misadventure and tragedy. From Disappointment Island in the Southern Ocean...
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Brett Kern began his higher education at California University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2003 as a Graphic Design Major. However, one year into college, after discovering a love for clay, Brett decided to switch his focus to ceramics. In the spring of 2007, he graduated from CALU with a Bachelors of Fine...
Artist Ana Teresa Barboza creates three-dimensional textile art that depicts natural forms such as plant life and landscapes. The colorful embroidery thread often spills out from the confines of the embroidery hoop or canvas, illustrating the sprawling growth of the organic subjects. Barboza’s latest work pushes the boundaries of embroidery by incorporating different disciplines, such as illustration and photography.                 Ana Teresa Barboza's...
Meade didn’t plan to be an artist. Growing up in Washington, D.C., Meade says she laid out a “super-neat path” for herself: “I interned on Capitol Hill for four summers, and then I worked on probably a half-dozen campaigns and studied political science, and I went to Europe to study the European Union.” But something wasn’t right. “I just felt...
Mona Caron is a San Francisco-based artist, engaging in muralism & street art, illustration, art-ivism, and photography. Her focus is on community-informed and site-specific public art . She has created murals in the US, throughout South America and in Europe, creates stop-motion mural animations, has freelanced as an illustrator, and engages in artivism with social and environmental movements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hp7CNzKUss Mona Caron's...
  ​Drawing from an archive of collected material, Suzanne Moxhay creates intricate and complex photomontage images. Her method was derived in part from the early filmmaking technique of matte painting, where backdrops were painted on sheets of glass and integrated by the camera with the live-action on set. She builds up the image in her studio using cutout fragments of...

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