Initiating BRAIN-MELTING-SEQUENCE in T-minus 10 seconds. Akira Beard was featured previously in November 2010 and June 2012, and holy shit, does Beard have new works for us to feast our eyes on since then. BRAIN-MELTING-SEQUENCE initiating...

Graszka Paulska is an artist based out of Poland who has an amazing ability to create both realistic females figures and haunting deformed creatures in her paintings. I find her paintings mesmerizing because some of the women portrayed in these paintings seem to relish the power from their situation despite their struggle.

Pedro Matos is no stranger to EK. Matos was previously featured back in September 2011, December 2010, and August 2010, and we bring him back today in time for his solo show at the Martha Otero Gallery in Los Angeles, California!

Hara Katsiki is a visual artist originally hailing from Greece who expresses her creative vision across various types of media ranging from drawing, painting, graphic design, animation, and music. I encourage everyone to check out her Tumblr page to give her music a listen.

Mizenscen is an illustrator/digital collage artist based out of Los Angeles, CA who cuts & pastes obscure anatomic layers fused with flora in a vintage, classic touch.

Artist Edwige Fouvry extensively paints in layers creating texture and depth in her body of work that helps brings attention to the medium itself. Fouvry works with many mediums ranging from watercolor, pencil, oil paint, ink, and what have you.

Cian McLoughlin is an artist originally hailing from Dublin, Ireland who has such a beautifully raw style that makes me want to punch a dog.

Texas born illustrator AJ Frena uses both watercolor and digital art as the mediums to create work that blends nature with abstract.

Currently based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jennifer Nehrbass is an artist who creates figurative and surreal oil paintings that we couldn't resist sharing on this Monday morning. Top of the morning to ya.

We featured the work of  Montreal based artist Jonathan Bergeron aka Johnny Crap back in January 2011. Since that last feature,  his work has gotten out of control awesome. He's cranked out some sweet new series introducing new styles and groovy characters to his original repertoire.

Daria Endresen is a digital artist/photo-manipulator that works out of Oslo, Norway and Paris, France. "The time heals not all wounds. There is humans, those bleeds a life long. That is the price, which pay the protection among us. Certainly they are admired, perhaps even loved – nevertheless they bleed – each day – each hour… You do not see correctly. Nobody does that."

It was clear as day when I first saw Robert Steven Connett's paintings. His work appears to be a window for us to peer into his microscopic and technological world. Plus, I am a huge fan of color and texture, and Connett executes both fabulously well.

I couldn't resist sharing the works of Mark Styling after coming across his body of work on the interwebs. Styling creates historically accurate illustrations of actual military aircraft that were in operation during WWII and the Korean War (B-17, B-24, B-26, B-29, PBY Catalinas among many others) including matching serial number or bureau number, aircraft number, unit markings, crew names and nose art with classic pin-up girls.

Steve Johnson is an illustrator based out of San Francisco. "One of my objectives as an artist is to bridge conflicting views by revealing shared concerns and common ground. The basic desire to find and maintain security, whether in a home, job, or relationship, in a forever shifting landscape, can create more losers than winners. Using a cast of chickadees, rats, and hummingbirds, my current work navigates the gray areas and middle grounds inhabited by animals with competing interests."

Sandra Chevrier was recently featured back in March of this year, and we eagerly bring her back to share more of her work with all of you. Today, we present Chevrier's mixed media on woven paper paintings where she uses traditional mediums combined with actual pages from comic books to create her colorful and lively pieces.

Franz Falckenhaus is an artist originally from Bartoszyce, Poland, but is currently based out of the city of Krakow. Falckenhaus is a self-taught artist, and it was his life-long interest in photography, film, and collage art that motivated him to pursue art as a career. Most of Falckenhaus' work is created digitally comprised of carefully selected vintage illustrations.

Esao Andrews was previously featured back in September 2010, and we're glad to bring Andrews back to check out his newer pieces since then. Andrews is originally from Mesa, Arizona, but currently is based out of Brooklyn, New York where he continues to pursue his art.

Concordia University grad Daniel Barkley, creates pieces that show not only the literal nakedness of his subject but a sense of raw vulnerability.

Laurie Hassold is a sculptor based out of Southern California that constructs bizarre organisms out of this world. She molds her extraterrestrial lifeforms out of clay, bones, wire, paint, and other random objects. H.R. Giger and Kris Kuksi would be proud.

The wonderful Lora Zombie was featured way back in 2009 before the infamous server crash (commonly referred to as "BC 2009" - Before the Crash) that some of the original staff writers mention from time to time. Essentially "BC 2009" is when we lost a year's worth of posts due to a server overload from a sudden surge of visitors that brought it down unexpectedly. We love you guys too! And now since we've redesigned and relaunched our site (which we hope you guys like), we're finally bring back Ms. Zombie to share her work with everyone.