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Stefan Glerum

March 3, 2012
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Stefan Glerum

Stefan Glerum’s illustrations are something else. The word “melting pot” is commonly used to describe Glerum’s work as it is inspired by “20th Century movements such as Art Deco, Bauhaus, Italian Futurism, and Russian Constructivism” all topped off with his unique sense of humor that he subtly injects into each piece.
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Oliver Barrett Revisit

March 2, 2012
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Oliver Barrett Revisit

The Cleveland, Ohio-based artist Oliver Barrett was featured back in April 2011 for his Beatles and Jazz pieces. Barrett’s soft illustrative style is undeniably cool, and not to mention, his work seems very personal with the delicate and sketchy approach he incorporates in his pieces. Regardless…Barrett is back to ask…”Do they speak English in...
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Ziwon Wang

March 1, 2012
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Ziwon Wang

Ziwon Wang has exhibited internationally from New York, Tokyo, Mumbai, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam. Wang’s “cybernetic” sculptural works explores the relationship between man and technology.
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Jack Addis

February 29, 2012
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Jack Addis

Jack Addis is a very unique artist hailing from Oxford, UK who creates equally unique art work. Addis utilizes “visual glitches” created digitally on the computer to create his vibrant and energetic pieces.
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Masaki Gaja

February 28, 2012
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Masaki Gaja

Masaki Gaja is a graphic designer, illustrator, and 3D-modeler currently based out of Peru. Gaja was raised in Japan until the age of 12, when he moved back to his native country.
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Natalia Fabia Revisit

February 27, 2012
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Natalia Fabia Revisit

Natalia Fabia had me with her “Hooker Dreamscape” series featured back in August 2010. Well, EK brings this artist of Polish-descent back for a quick revisit to check out more of her pieces since then.
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Olivier de Sagazan

February 26, 2012
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Olivier de Sagazan

Give this man a canvas and he shall paint you HIS world! Olivier de Sagazan is an amazing painter originally hailing from Brazzaville, Congo, but is currently based out of Nazaire, France. De Sagazan’s oil on canvas paintings are simply nuts, and he’s probably one of the coolest contemporary painters that I’ve seen in...
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Luis Toledo // LAPRISAMATA

February 25, 2012
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Luis Toledo // LAPRISAMATA

Luis Toledo (LAPRISAMATA) is an artist hailing from Madrid, Spain. Mr. Toledo was featured previously back in September 2010 and August 2010. Just from a single glance, what is there not to love about Mr. Toledo’s work?
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Simen Johan

February 24, 2012
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Simen Johan

Simen Johan is a photographer originally hailing from Kirkenes, Norway. Johan combines traditional photography with post-digital work to create his images, as well as dabbling in creating sculptural works.
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Takanori Aiba

February 23, 2012
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Takanori Aiba

Hailing from Yokohama, Japan, Takanori Aiba creates “dimensional” works of art combining his knowledge and past experience in maze illustration and architectural work. Aiba incorporates the traditional technique and aesthetic approach that is similarly found in the art of Bonsai grooming.
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Ward Roberts

February 22, 2012
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Ward Roberts

Photographer Ward Roberts is currently based out of Melbourne, Australia. In Roberts’ “Billion” series, he captures countless high-rise living units throughout Hong Kong, and creates what seems to be an endless world of infinite reflections and patterns of light. Oh, the places that we, humans, call home…
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Natalia Kovachevski

February 21, 2012
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Natalia Kovachevski

Natalia Kovachevski is a self-portrait photographer (and model) hailing from France. Kovachevski’s work is quite beautiful utilizing soft colors, blurring effects, lens flares, and double exposure to capture her images.
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Max Boufathal

February 20, 2012
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Max Boufathal

Max Boufathal originally hails from Paris, France. Boufathal creates very unique sculptures made out of steel, plastic bags, plaster, and wax among other materials.
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Portraits by Matt Small

February 19, 2012
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Portraits by Matt Small

Artist Matt Small creates energetic and colorful paintings on various found surfaces and metal pieces, such as car hoods, refrigerator doors, and more. Small typically focuses on marginalized populations as subjects for his portrait pieces who usually go unnoticed and ignored by society.
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Where Humans Dwell.

February 18, 2012
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Where Humans Dwell.

Greer Muldowney is currently a photography professor based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Muldowney has exhibited her work internationally in the United States, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and France.
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Peihang Huang 黃沛涵

February 17, 2012
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Peihang Huang 黃沛涵

Peihang Huang 黃沛涵 is a wonderfully talented artist hailing from Taipei, Taiwan. Huang creates oil on canvas paintings highlighting the grotesquely beautiful and delicate nature of the human flesh through a combination unique color palettes and brush strokes. One of the most intriguing series in Huang’s portfolio is “Fleshy Fairytale” where in which she...
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All Hail Terry Rodgers.

February 16, 2012
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All Hail Terry Rodgers.

On this Thursday, Terry Rodgers graces EK with a long-overdue visit since August 2010. It was no surprise that in the same year, Rodgers made it unanimously on our EK TOP 100 of 2010. Being that Rodgers’ pieces are large-scale, extremely well rendered, meticulously thought out oil on linen paintings, it’s no wonder that...
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Matteo Pugliese

February 15, 2012
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Matteo Pugliese

Han Solo…eat your fuckin’ heart out. Matteo Pugliese is an sculptor hailing out of Milan, Italy. Pugliese creates amazingly awesome and powerful sculptures out of bronze and terracotta, and uses the surface of walls as an important component to “trap” his figures which creates a very effective and successful form tension in all of...
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M&C Saatchi XXX

February 14, 2012
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M&C Saatchi XXX

M&C Saatchi is a “federation of entrepreneurs” (designers and the likes) from design firms all over the world who are brought together and united by a strong philosophy: “Brutal Simplicity of Thought”. If you haven’t heard by now, online pornographic websites not will have to switch their web domains to “.xxx” (instead of .com,...
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