Fine 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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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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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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(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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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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Lately sculptures formed out of books seems to be progressing with us. Artist Wim Botha based out of South Africa chooses specific books reflecting human identity and immorality. “There is seldom a distinction to be drawn between the prominence of the concept and that of the medium. I work with materials central to mass...
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Drew Millward is an illustrator from Coventry, UK. Millward prefers his illustration done ‘the old fashioned way’ using primarily pencils and pens rather than taking an exclusively digital route. His subject matter and style ranges from methodically detailed to a sort of psychedelic art nouveau.  His work has been commissioned by clients such as Arctic Monkeys, Nike, Epitaph Records, Disturbia Clothing, Bon Iver, Sonic Youth and Flight of The...
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Tracey Emin… A vivaciously explicit British artist that vents herself through free writing, needle work, painting, sculpture, installations, photography and just about everything else. The feminist grew up in a very eccentric and extraordinary way which lead herself into an extreme cult-like icon. Best way to describe her is from her own quote, “I...
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Cildo Meireles is a veteran installation, conceptual artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A lot of his work expresses resistance to political oppression in his native land. Majority of his sculptures are very large scale, which allows the audience to interact with his subject.
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Mu Pan, I would love to buy you a beer.   Your work is like the sweet smell of honey dew in the morning on a blood-soaked mountain.  If you were a carrot, I’d never eat you. Watercolors below. More later.
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Joshua Bronaugh is a fine art painter that’s traveled from Germany to Rome, mountains of America and other countries. This is his latest impressive update, originally posted in Empty Kingdom of 2010.
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2010 Top 100 artist Monica Cook paints so awesome but she does everything else awesome as well.  Here are some of her works on paper, which seem to show much more of the satire in her work.
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