Miho Hirano is a Japanese artist based out of Chiba, Japan who wondrously creates ethereal portraits out of oil.
Marianna Ignataki
Marianna Ignataki’s watercolor practice enables her to enter a vague, subliminal world, filled with images of her own mythology. Her work ranges from minimalistic scenes and portraits to exaggerated, kitsch, Rococo inspired compositions.
Seungyea Park
Seungyea Park aka Spunky Zoe is an artist based out of Seoul, South Korea who creates large scaled drawings with ballpoint pens. Her self-portraits are representations of her inner and outer demons. Park was originally featured on Empty Kingdom back in October 2011.
Agnes Toth
“Dichotomy is the main feature of my practice; my work is equally precise and detailed, but also fractured, unfinished and deconstructed. A type of manipulation, where the painting is abstract and realistic at the same time.” -Agnes Toth
Lukasz Wierzbowski
Believe it or not there are photographers who still shoot with film. Polish photographer Lukasz Wierzbowski is one them and really knows how to pull the trigger as well. Lukasz is no stranger to Empty Kingdom. The artist’s been featured on this website numerous times now and it was about time we give the interwebs…
Kim Sang Duck
Kim Sang Duck is a painter based out of Buan-Gun, South Korea.
Venus Mansion
Lee Sol aka “Venus Mansion” is a South Korean 3D artist based out of Seoul who’s conceptual renderings fuses futuristic vaporware tones and aesthetics.
Mayuko Fujino
Mayuko Fujino is a self-taught papercut artist from Tokyo currently based in New York City. Inspired by Japanese traditional stencil textile designs, she has been practicing her art since 1999 and takes a new approach to paper cutout technique by combining it with used magazine collage and other used/found materials.
Stefan Zsaitsits
Take a look at Austrian artist Stefan Zsaitsits‘ otherworldly juxtapositions. A little bit of mind altercations. Indeed, fun and interesting.
David Schermann
David Schermann is a Vienna based photographer who’s series entitled “Bigger Than Us” portrays solitude and alienness, alongside passion and love.
Hanamura Showdown & The Raid
“Hanamura Showdown” & “The Raid” are epic illustrated pieces that manifests several classic characters, super heroes, and villains by two amazing cyberpunk artists, Josan Gonzalez & Laurie Greasley.
Adam Martinakis Update
Adam Martinakis is a digital artist based out of Athens, Greece who primarily works in 3D. He creates humanoids & environments in a surreal, hyper-realistic, and abstract conditions. Check out our exclusive interview with Martinakis back in August 2012.
Zemer Peled
Zemer Peled’s work examines the beauty and brutality of the natural world. Her sculptural language is formed by her surrounding landscapes and nature, engaging with themes of nature and memories, identity and place. Her works are formed of thousand of ceramic shards constructed into large-scale/small-scale sculptures and installations.
Emi Adachi
Emi Adachi‘s work of art gives off something rather refreshing when it comes to using an “old-fashioned” Japanese color palette. Her paintings of children and cats who coexist so naturally reminds me of my (I’m Korean) childhood nursery books but with an aura that’s a bit more odd and unusual. Be sure to check out…
Lauren Gallaspy
“The fundamental contradictions of the ceramic vessel and the human body are the same: they are objects of both strength and fragility, though, in the end, the ceramic object will always outlive us. This urgent attempt at immortality remains an essential appeal of ceramics to me. Why do I make what I make? I wish…