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Simon Stålenhag
Simon Stålenhag is an artist currently based out of Stockholm, Sweden who created a series depicting a world not too dissimilar from ours…of course, except for the roaming dinosaurs and the high-tech robots sprinkled throughout the landscape.
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非 (hi)
非 (hi) is a digital artist based out of Tokyo, Japan. Quiet, haunting, muted, bloodied, scarred, mutilated faces…dig it.
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Robert Gligorov
Robert Gligorov’s work attempts to shock the viewer with each piece as it tantalizes the imagination, “awakening it from a state of lethargy.”
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Spunky Zoe
Spunky Zoe was featured back in October 2011, landing him a spot on our EK TOP 100 of 2011. Spunky Zoe is back to showcase more of his ball-point pens and acrylic pieces…and yes, they’re just as weird and trippy compared to the first time around.
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Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn’s sculptures often deals with the “distanced relationship we have with our bodies” while also exploring themes of the “mutability of the body and the dualisms that define human life: spiritual and physical, surface and depth, cerebral and sexual.”
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A Home For Media Artists
Jee Young Lee
December 10, 2013
Korean artist Jee Young Lee presents her amazing surreal set creations titled "Stage of Mind." This whimsical, Photoshop-free work with it's painstaking detail and elaborate execution was made in the artist's 3.6 x 4.1 x 2.4-meter studio in Seoul. Pulling her inspiration from literature such as Shakespeare, Korean fables and childhood memories, Young lee uses paint, wire, paper and even fog and dry ice to assemble each atmospheric piece. A selection of her work will be featured at the OPIOM Gallery in Opio, France from February 7 to March 7, 2014.
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Zhang Kechun
December 9, 2013
Zhang Kechun is a fine art photographer based out of Chengdu, China who is currently showcasing his latest photo-journalistic series entitled "The Yellow Sea".
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Dario Moschetta
December 9, 2013
Currently based out of Castelfranco Veneto, Treviso, Italy, Dario Moschetta is an artist who isn't afraid to experiment by mixing anything with everything in his work. Moschetta will go as far as to add glue and color paper to his canvases in order to create rough and irregular surfaces to build texture in his paintings.
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All Flowers in Time ╳ Jonathan Caouette // Revisited
December 8, 2013
The red eyes are more than just photographic flash side effects, they are powerful signals of manipulation that evoke the ability to shape-shift by will. All Flowers in Time is an enigmatic and perplexingly tonal tale by director Jonathan Caouette. Now the full short can be streamed online! Check out more after the jump.
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Shi Jin Song
December 8, 2013
With all this talk about the Zombie Apocalypse being right around the corner (EK has already begun our preemptive strategic and survival plans), it seems like artist Shi Jin Song is on the same page as us! What better way to protect your little bundle of joy than to have one of these! Song has created a series of baby strollers and carriages outfitted with spikes and gun mounts all made out of good ol'steel.
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Jessica Harrison Revisit
December 7, 2013
It's been too long! Jessica Harrison has more of those porcelain sculptures that we love so damn much. Harrison was previously featured back in November 2010, and we continue right where we left off last with her beautiful yet horrifying mini-figurines.
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SCRIPTURA VITAE ╳ Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic, Shane Annas & Fake Love
December 6, 2013
SCRIPTURA VITAE explores the expressive language of the body and Japanese calligraphy, and a strong focus on the inseparable parallels of flesh and ink. Directed by Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic. With additional directorship by Shane Annas and VFX by Fake Love.
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Joe Castro
December 6, 2013
Based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Joe Castro is a collage artist who arms himself with an X-Acto knife and matte medium gel to create his art pieces.
"I enjoy the challenge of limitation–fixed sizes, shapes and colors–of having to figure out how to take a specific collection of images and bring them together into a form that then takes on a life of it’s own. Mentally, moving the pieces of paper around is like playing a never ending game of chess with yourself that only ends when your opponent stops breathing.
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Fong Qi Wei
December 5, 2013
"Photography is a medium that is famous for freezing time," says photographer Fong Qi Wei. In Wei's newest series, "Time is a Dimension", he takes a number of photographs during a span of 2-4 hours (primarily during sunrises and sunsets) at a specific location, and then constructs a single composite image using different "slices of time" for the individual photographs. The results are pretty dope.
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Tobias Hall
December 5, 2013
Freelance illustrator Tobias Hall creates beautifully composed pieces using the written word, specializing not only in digital art but lettering, and mural painting. Gotta love a man who keeps such a classic form of art like hand made typography alive and well.
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EK Interview: Mindzai Creative
December 4, 2013
We at Empty Kingdom are honored to be working with the fantastic folks over at Mindzai Creative. Mindzai is a Creative Agency and Print Shop with a work ethic and culture deserving respect and recognition. Check out their interview:
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Invocation ╳ Robert Morgan
December 4, 2013
Flesh, blood and celluloid are all the necessary ingredients to bring Robert Morgan’s meta-horror Invocation to life.
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John Boelee
December 4, 2013
What's creepier than clowns or dolls if you have a phobia? How about a bunch of different faces all mashed together to make a bigger one?! John Boelee is an artist currently based out of Rotterdam, The Netherlands who produces hyperrealistic acrylic paintings comprised of a number of different faces that are carefully arranged together in order to create a larger one.
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Mercedes Helnwein Revisit
December 3, 2013
Currently splitting her time between Los Angeles, California and Ireland, Mercedes Helnwein creates intricate pencil drawings of "weird goings-on" that brings her back to our humble site since her last feature in September 2010. Not to name-drop, but Mercedes is the daughter of Gottfried Helnwein...dun-dun-dun! I swear...talent breeds talent!
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Yuko Shimizu revisited
December 3, 2013
Oh Yunko Shimizu, I'd ask you what I have to do to stop loving your work so much, but I just don't wanna stop. I posted Shimizu's work on October, 2012, after a double appearance on EK, first way back in 2010 and then on February 2012. Here is a look at some recent boss illustrations by the talented Japanese artist, as well as some stuff you may have not seen before.
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The Return of Kevin Francis Gray
December 2, 2013
Previously featured back in September 2010, Kevin Francis Gray returns with new sculptures carved out of marble and bronze that reminds me why I give sculptors mad respect for their skills.
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Lente Scura
December 1, 2013
Lente Scura is a digital artist who uses photo-manipulation to create emotive digital paintings of female subjects caught in a confusing space caught between reality and dreams. Most of Scura's subjects appear to be struggling with emotion filled with dramatic anguish and sadness...haunting, but damn beautiful.
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Archan Nair Part II
November 30, 2013
Archan Nair (b.1982, New Delhi) is a self developed visual artist, illustrator and Art Director, specializing in mixed media, illustration, and digital art. Archan is inspired by various phases and forms of life to create highly intricate works that connect the various dimensions of our existence.
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Rim Lee
November 30, 2013
"Even though we, as unique individuals, live in a different environment, at a point of time we feel the same when we look at an object. When I am having a conversation with my family and friends, I feel that we are of a same mind. I believe that one admits the difference and similarity of each creature through interacting with each other. Based upon the perception of such commonality, I try to put the incidental excitement into a two dimensional surface of colors to propose you to another imaginative phantasmal world." -Rim Lee
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EK Interview: Amanda Elizabeth Joseph Part 2
November 29, 2013
Amanda Elizabeth Joseph is one of the fantastic artists we will be bringing down to Miami for Select Art Fair. According to her, the entire story of a person can be told through their skin, it's no surprise that the subjects in her paintings have seen such attention in that department. Check out her interview:
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