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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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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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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Colin Chillag is pretty cool, yep.
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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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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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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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Kenichi Hoshine. How are you? Nice work. Blog him.
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Chad Wys is an Illinois based mixed media artist that recycles historical and classic paintings. His series ‘Nocturnes’ eliminates, removes and sometimes censures the main body of work and leaves the rest to our imagination.
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Seattle based sculptor Joel Morrison creates everyday objects in a twisted juxtaposition. With Jeff Koon’s reflective approach, he uses stainless steel to craft radical modern icons to Greek sculptures.
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Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor is a Sacramento, CA native that breathes life into monstrous creatures that would make the furry outcasts of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ look like mundane conformists. Her homemade series ‘Dreadful Sorry Clementine’ stand at 6 to 8 feet by stitching textiles, linens, carpet, newspaper, and a whole mess of cardboard....
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Marc Bijl is a Berlin based artist that builds structures around social anarchy and nihilistic themes. Many of his pieces are installed in public spaces, which allows him to share his personal perception of the world. Tim Tebow probably wouldn’t approve of Mr. Marc’s work.
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Jeane Myers is a contemporary abstract artist based out of Washington state. Her paintings are specifically labeled with a personal significance. The merging of the colored layers come together, leaving the effects of our mutual intuition metrically aligned. Title: The Sky was Drunk
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Valerie Hegarty is a Brooklyn based artist that enjoys tearing, ripping, burning and damaging her own conceptual artwork. She might as well have fog machine filling out the studio as if an explosion went off. The George Washington portrait would be perfect for the bathroom.
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Markus Hofer is an Austrian born surrealist that transforms everyday objects into radical juxtapositions. Several of his work are displayed in the streets, which reminds me of the dadaist movement.
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