Painting

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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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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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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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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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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Takashi Murakami’s most recent exhibition ‘Ego’ is being showcased at the Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall, Qatar. The show portrays 60 pieces, which dates back to 1997 till present day. Currently his largest collection of work portrays his personal struggle in response to a growing information of overload. ‘Murakami – Ego’ is the final series...
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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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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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Fredrik Rättzén was featured on Empty Kingdom just last week. A friendly, hard working, down-to-earth guy, his responses were interesting to read and some were completely relatable. And he’s a fan of Lykke Li, another plus.
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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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Qian Yi’s style hits the sweet spot between modern digital painting and the open-ended interpretation of Taoist minimalism. I’m especially drawn to the elements of her work that resemble the work within the series of Sandman or Mike Mignola’s shadow work in Hellboy.
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David Ball is a collage/mixed media artist located in San Francisco.  His interests range from observed relationship dynamics and social commentary to more introverted personal works, all in surreal, other-worldly landscapes driven by character and narrative.  The way he blends medias in his work is real treat in person.
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Mr. Ruas (featured previously back in April 2010)is a visual artist from São Paulo.  He has dedicated himself exclusively to personal artwork and illustration, for which we say.. thank you.
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Cory Benhatzel is an artist from Amherst, New York that paints dark beautiful themes of victory, triumph and the symbolic dance between life and death. Her floriography and the mythological occult reached a popularity among human being’s where her work became permanent ink stamps.
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Katherine Brannock says: “Art works as an agent, combining our senses in ways that broaden the meaning and significance of our existence. I am grateful for the opportunity to communicate with art for the enjoyment of others, as I attempt to uncover and understand the dialogue that defines our time and place in history.”
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Sala Lieber is an artist hailing from Neuss, Germany. “The motivation for my work comes from a very deep desire to create something beautiful mixing baroque and modern elements. The origin of my enthusiasm for the old masters is my family, who were running a large antique shop. My father collected treasuries across the...
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