Emily Detrick considers herself an artist who uses photography as a tool to communicate an issue visually. She struggled with the decision to study psychology or photography, until she realized she could combine the two and use each to aid the other. Now, living, working and attending SCAD in Atlanta Emily is creating work that focuses on societal issues and psychological problems. Emily aims to start conversations and encourages her audience to reevaluate the way they perceive themselves in relation to society. With that said, Emily has penned an open letter to society complete with visual pieces that can aid any wayfarer on their path to greatness.
Philipp Igumnov aka Woodcum is a collage artist who’s work hits with a biting sense of humor that’s as funny as it is sad. The Moscow based artist creates collages and illustrations that walk the tight-rope of the duality of a sad clown. At once his work is teaming with laugh-out-loud nefarious behavior and a kinda-blue mood. Take a closer look at some of Philipp’s work below.
The Perfect Cherry Blossom is a symbol for flourishing spring and peace, but also the name of one of the most advanced and violent Japanese Bullet Hell Games. A video game made by gamers for gamers from a time before the gaming industry turned into a home entertainment device. Artists Keiichi Tanaami and Oliver Payne explored this game in their latest series of work.
“Everything is born of the need to answer the call of the subconscious.
Open a channel where can emerge, these dream images that come to my mind.
I try to illustrate a confusing message, which will take effect over time.
My work reflects a personal universe that is embraced with Dada and Surrealism kisses.
Bright colors, nature, humanity and the spark that gives life, are the protagonists of this in my work, which is constantly evolving. Always with hands full of spray paint, crop images, draw, paint, on paper, canvas or digital, trying to not have any structure or steps. Try my work is an invitation to travel without movement and feel without touching.” – Ale Sinestro
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.”
– Chuck Palahniuk from “Invisible Monsters”
We kissed Elizabeth Winnel and we liked it. The Toronto, based painter received a BFA from in illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. Her current work begins each painting with a layer of drips, splashes and bleeding, the ‘associative layer’ binding form and color for emotive effect. The second layer depicts herself in vulnerable and often erotic poses. The aim is not self-objectification, but reflection and analysis. In her paintings she endeavors to make apparent the dichotomy of interior and exterior in relation to her self-image. Take a closer look at some of her work below.
Olek‘s first solo exhibition in the UK, opens this Thursday, January 26 at Tony’s Gallery in London. Entitled I do not expect to be a mother, but I do expect to die alone, the show runs through March 23, and features a bevy of her signature crocheted mixed media sculptural environments which according to the artist, “tell a story that’s a reflection of life, love trust and lust in our trying modern times.”
By the age of 18, Niels Shoe Meulman was a rising graffiti legend, known by his street moniker of “Shoe.” Niels was influential in creating an innovative style of European graffiti alongside his crew Crime Time Kings, which he formed with Bando from Paris and Mode2 from London. This March, 941 Geary will show new works by the Amsterdam-based artist in a solo exhibition entitled Justified Scriptures.
Bruno Dias lives in a tropical country, a fact that inspires and drives his work to explore themes of regional Brazilian culture in a free, personal and playful manner. His street art expresses the relationship between physical space and the people of the country. Graffiti is an important reference for his work but it’s the feelings from the nature and the chaos around us which ensure the various painting techniques of manual, digital, spray paint and found art show through. Forever young and spontaneous, Bruno Dias’ latest works take an international dimensional as he showcases not only his unique style, but the unique style of Brazil’s regional culture to the world.
Victoria Viray aka Prettymonkey26 likes to draw/paint things–very sexy things. Using a wide variety of mediums, from vectors to digital painting, traditional charcoals to acrylics, her style can be summed up in several words; punk, rock, sexy, sensual, fluid, angst, beauty, woman, feminine, orgasmic.
To talk about the film Color Outside the Lines, you must first talk about black people in art. It has always been quite difficult to emerge as just an artist. You were always a Negro artist. You were always an Afro-American artist. You were always an African-American artist. You were always a Black artist. You were always a colored artist. You were never, simply, an artist. We can speak about Jean-Michel Basquiat, but it would be irresponsible to speak about him without mentioning that half of his insanity and demise was built on the fact that he couldn’t escape the bricks walls that is being confined and defined by your color (and all the stigma that is attached to it) versus by your creations.
Civil Rights & Jim Crow for the “Eat, Pray, Love” Generation
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important” is the mantra that Abileen Clark (Viola Davis), a domestic worker in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s, uses to comfort and empower her employer’s daughter. Neglected by a mother who finds her too chubby and cumbersome, and a constantly absent father, Abileen is the only caring adult in the girl’s life, the one who’s there for her through real and metaphorical storms. This all while being told, she is nothing short of the opposite of her own mantra.
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