Illustration & Art

Kenichi Hoshine creates mixed media pieces out of oil, acrylic, and wax on wood. Still, silent, haunting, and all beautiful.
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The Lost Secret Mihai Criste is a painter from Romania known for his Surrealist works. He graduated from the Visual Arts Academy in Romania in 2001 and since then has been participating in group exhibitions along with illustrating children’s books, such as the The Wizard of Oz. The graceful composition of his paintings, along...
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Will Kurtz is a pretty cool artist, I’m surprised I haven’t seen him up here yet. Well here he is.
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Frank Magnotta creates detailed works of graphite on paper mixing all sorts of cultural icons and influences into his pieces…not to mention, Magnotta creates some wicked characters with some intense faces!
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Jules Julien is a French illustrator who is currently working in France, Japan, and the U.S. He has studied art in Toulouse and worked as an artistic director for ten years. Aside from his personal works, his clients include Keds, Sony Playstation, and magazines such as Philosophie Magazine and Soon Magazine. His works have...
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Nicola Yeoman is a British installation artist that manipulates everyday surroundings, objects and sets by leaving a notion of modern escapism. She’s been featured with major publications such as American/British/Italian/German Vogue, V, New York Times Magazine and designed Jay-Z’s Blue Print 3 album cover.
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Ryan Browning is an artist originally hailing from Texas, USA, but currently is based out of Maryland, USA.
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Diana Al-Hadid’s sculptures  ‘Portal to a Black Hole’ which is a description that is correct to the very inch. It’s truly as if your looking in and finding massive consecrated objects. Her monumental series also display towers, scrapers that leave an explosive impact with ethereal surroundings.
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Previously featured by Chemo way back in 2010, Shimizu has been sharpening her blades indeed.  Blog.
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Ketut Kusuma ate watermelon seeds when he was a child.  They were government watermelons with high amounts of element 167, a highly hypothetical element that is currently under investigation at CERN and is considered to be best friends with Higgs, the Boson.  Ketut now has acres upon acres of watermelons growing in a transdimensional...
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非 (hi) was featured back in December 2010. There still isn’t much information about 非 (hi) since our last feature on him/her…regardless, we’re definitely feeling his/her work.
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(Photo by: Dara Scully, EK Flickr Pool Submission) Welcome, ladies n’ gentlemen, lads n’ lasses… gems n’ germs. The EMPTY KINGDOM Top 100 Artist of 2011 is here!
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Hidden Moves was featured back in January of 2010.  Check out his interview below:
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Maurizio Anzeri is an artist originally from Loano, Italy, but is currently based out of London, UK. Anzeri directly sews into found vintage photographs creating embroidered patterns that adorn and garnish the figures. Damn Mr. Anzeri!
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Roberto Ferri is an Italian fine art painter whose work is heavily inspired by Baroque painters (i.e. Caravaggio). With his technic and skill, you get sense of the grand romantic biblical themes, however he blends twisted absurdities and the imagery of torture in his epic pieces.
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“My name is Sachin Teng. I’m an artist living and working in New York City… Though I’m an illustrator I think more like a designer. Art is a means of visual communication, a kind of aesthetic discourse. They can tell you whatever they want, to buy a new flavor of gum, to go to war, go to a concert,...
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Mark Powell is an artist hailing from London, UK. Powell uses a biro pen (ballpoint) to create his fine art pieces on used and found papers and envelopes. In the words of the majestic Stevie Wonder, “sign, sealed, delievered…I’m yours”.
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Colin Chillag  is pretty cool, yep.
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Reinier Gamboa’s work is mindblowing. His interview is genuine, honest and intelligent. Gamboa’s work is pretty badass, and so is his interview. Read on fellow psychonauts:
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