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.
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.
Extreme contrast is one of the quickest ways to get a viewer to notice what sets something apart from something else. This distinction is important because, it’s the way we as humans identify each other. We know ourselves, by looking at what others aren’t. This stark contrast is heavy at play in the work of Toyin Odutola.
It all started like this… In 2005, while working as a slave for JPMorgan Chase, 25-year-old Mitchell Cooper made a small drawing in his cubicle out of boredom. A month latter he had transformed his cubicle into a installation piece that incorporates 54 individual drawings and conceptual pieces that are all conversing with one another on the ordinariness and ridiculousness of life in the modern workplace – he calls it “Cube Fever.”
Mr.Frivolous is an artist from London in desperate need of a haircut. The majority of his work is deliberately depicted in felt tip pens due to the fact that he knows he can get a double pack of 24 for £1 from Poundland.
Mike Reedy takes the artist’s anatomical study to the next dimension; literally. Exploring from the inside out, he has strung together a collection portraying man at his very core and sculpted an evolution of the overlooked naked state of mind. Dissecting what he identifies to be the admittance of his subject’s being and leaving no room for glorification, Reedy twists the triviality of this traditional art.
Star Trak taught Marcus Johnson. It’s apparent when browsing through the 27-year-old artist’s portfolio which is filled with awesome renderings of Pharrell Williams, N*E*R*D, The Clipse and Fam Lay. Marcus isn’t solely biased to the Star Trak camp, with a pencil and paper as his weapon he releases an arsenal of images of other notable Hip-Hop figures such as Jay-Z, Big Sean & Drake. Take a closer look at Marcus’ work after the jump.
Although she is the go-to illustrator for magazines and children book publishers, Nata Metlukh has a dark side. Separate from her commercial work which finds the San Francisco based artist designing for clients, Nata’s personal sketchbook series paints an entirely different portrait of the artists. Art Nouveau recently caught up with Nata to talk about her work, commercial art vs personal art and more.
Adan Banuelos is constantly stirred with an emotion that drives him to create. He lives the artist life because it is all he knows. The multi-disciplinary artist bounces from painting to drawing to sculpture to furniture design with no fear of experimentation. Probably because he considers himself at a stage in his artistic development where it is important to challenge himself to experiment with a myriad of mediums and processes.
If you didn’t know birds are dying. Fish are dying. The world is ending. When 2012 rolls around Terrence Payne‘s apocalypse is going to suck a little less than yours. The blank based artist brings his brand of dark humor and unrelenting imagery to Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis. On Saturday, April 16, the gallery will present My Apocolypse Will Be Better Than Yours, featuring new drawings from the artist whose latest body of work continues to push the assumptions of beauty and challenges his viewers to succumb to the reckless charms and irrational fears of his subjects.
Ukrainian artist .taz is probably the best artist you never know. Until now of course. His work is oozing with what I’m guessing is influence from an odd combination of Tim Burton and well…chicken. The mix sounds outrageous, and it is, but the work is marvelous. Pencil drawings, postcards, paintings, his work is pulling from Victorian eras and still manages to exude that air of resilience you can find only in new art. Take a closer look at some of his work after the jump.
