Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl (1860-1933) is a Hungarian artist whose mastery in the arts has been unjustly obscured in history, (much like the Korean war) I mean Jesus Christ, he doesn’t even have his own Wikipedia page! Thank God for Empty Kingdom and our mausoleum, as part of our mission is to allow our artists...
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Back in August 2010, we featured Rob Hefferan and his wedding portrait work. Today, we bring him back to scope out some of his work since last, and like his previous post, his work is legit. Hefferan’s work is just classic…it’s exactly how traditional portraiture should be, and he executes them wonderfully.
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Alex Gross was featured back in November 2010, and we bring him back two years later to check out his work since then. Gross incorporates a lot of interesting and cool social commentary in this paintings creating a totally unique surreal world presented to us only in a way that he can create.
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Cai Guo-Qiang is a veteran installation artist from China, currently based out of New York. He’s studied stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy, so naturally his work is presented in an epic, awe-inspiring setting. He crosses multiple mediums within art, including film, drawing, performance pieces and even painting with gunpowder.
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Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist that sculpts contemporary subjects in a witty, fanciful notion. His view on art isn’t a representation based on reality, but more like a parallel world; A double reality where any original piece goes extinct, but the replicate survives. “Art is like an impulse generated at some precise time...
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A 2nd round of Jenny Morgan’s paintings which was originally featured back in September 2010. The artist currently resides in New York and is a graduate of School of Visual Arts.
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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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Lu Cong was previously featured back in December 2011 and April 2010. The artist has a heavy portfolio with portraits painted in oil. Majority of the paintings have a symmetrical composition, rendered tightly in monotonous tones.
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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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There is something just terrific about the works of Danish artist Michael Kvium. He has an incredible knack of showing a somber sometimes grotesque or obscene, yet oddly humorous side of the human figure. Okay, maybe if you have really dark humor but still, brilliant work!
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Josh Miels is a crazy cool artist hailing from Australia. He was previously featured on March 21st, 2011 by our very own Konahrtist; Josh makes his big EK comeback with an exclusive interview and an awesome inside look at the place where all the magic happens.
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Mr. Ian Wright creates pixel-based artwork using all kinds of different materials. Ian is motivated by trying to push his work somewhere new. He prefers to let the materials used to influence the outcome of his artwork. I believe he is from the UK. But what do I know, I’m not a journalist, and...
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2011 Top 100 selection, Atelier Olschinsky, a design studio from Vienna, Austria is so awesome! Featured previously here. Can you believe these are illustrations? Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss are a highly creative duo and their website is well deserved a second look.
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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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Fred Sandback (1943-2003) was a Contemporary American artist that minimally sculpted outlined planes and volumes in space. The precision, articulation and the punctiliousness of control leaves the viewer in a meditative order.
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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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Hellen Jo is an artist currently residing in Burbank. Her work is reminiscent of Edo period Japan art.
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Brad Kunkle knows how to paint a pretty picture. His work makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside and makes me want to fall in love. I’m also warm and fuzzy on the outside. The benefit of being a bunny.
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Richard Gray is a part of the Illustration Division, a collection of talented illustrators. I’d say more about it but I’d be making it up at this point, because that’s all I know about the man.
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