Gawker Artists

Amy Lincoln [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:53:13 -0500

In this work I re-imagine myself and my friends as characters in a two-dimensional world. Some of the portraits are on oval boards, or incorporate an ornate frame, suggesting a sentimentalized vision of the subject, much like a cameo or an old photograph. Each image does not so much represent a friend as recall her, envisioning her in a timeless, reverent space. Painting a portrait allows me to distill into a single image innumerable experiences, thoughts and emotions that relate to a particular person. In this way the paintings are totems or avatars, portraits of gods from a personal mythology.

Amy Lincoln

Austin Power [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:51:36 -0500

I am interested in showing the difficulty and discomfort in fully understanding a person. I leave my subjects incomplete to highlight their limitations, as well as my own inability to see the subject beyond the influence of myself.

Austin Power

Paolo Domeniconi [Digital]

Gawker Artists — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:02:06 -0500

I am an Italian illustrator specializing in children's illustration, classic fairly tales, magazine illustrations, advertising illustration and more.

Paolo Domeniconi

Thomas Venzor [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:29:08 -0500

I'm a self-taught artist and have been painting for about 15 years now. Though I do love color, my favorite is to paint black and white images.

Thomas Venzor

option-g [Drawing]

Gawker Artists — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:37:56 -0500

Cole Gerst is a graphic artist, illustrator, animator and painter in Los Angeles, California. Originally from the deep south of Albany, Georgia, he grew up surrounded by many outsider and folk artists, including his grandfather, a respected local craftsman. As a kid, Cole enjoyed many of these artists' fantastical stories about faraway lands, or conversations with Higher Powers. He was inspired by their ability to create art that revealed the world as only they saw it. He now heads up the firm, option-g, which is a multidisciplinary design firm which provides illustration, graphic design, art commisions and animation to the music and entertainment industry.

option-g

chad person [Mixed Media]

Gawker Artists — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:04:18 -0500

My dollar bill collages, inflatable sculptures, and other highly conceptual works – reflect upon the confluence of money and power throughout history, and in particular considers current US attitudes that have filtered down from Westward Expansion and notions of Manifest Destiny. The result is a political and cultural critique that encompasses not only the shifting cultural changes that have taken place within my lifetime but also those throughout US history.

chad person

Grimanesa Amoros [Sculpture]

Gawker Artists — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:56:01 -0500

I am an interdisciplinary artist with diverse interests in the fields of social history, scientific research and critical theory, which have greatly influenced my work. I often make use of sculpture, video, and lighting to create works that illuminate our notions of personal identity and community. I utilize my art as an agent for empowerment to involve viewers from all different backgrounds and communities. I was born in Lima. I live and work in New York City and Peru.

Grimanesa Amoros

Fain Hancock [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:34 -0500

Real and imagined, unseen or unrecognized universes coexist all around us. Sea creatures live in the deep ocean; bacteria live in the body; insects make a tiny home within a home; cells form structures to make a human. A small bit stands in for the greater whole, and exists perhaps without the knowledge of the larger piece. I have an interest in biomorphic shapes, pattern and fragile beauty.

Fain Hancock

Jennie Traill Schaeffer [Painting]

gaintern — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:15:18 -0500

I play with paint, mixing brushes and knives to create the topography of gesture. What emerge from this experience are not abstractions, but realist paintings: vintage kitchen appliances, scrumptious trappings of weddings, modern Italian scenes. I am interested in re-contextualizing these subjects, conveying their iconic natures while displaying strong indications of their modernity. Everything I paint has an energy that I strive to bring to the surface through emphatic edges, vivid colors and heavily textured, gestural brush strokes. I live with my husband, Lee Goldberg and dog, Ringo in our Newton, NJ home.

Jennie Traill Schaeffer

Wiley Robertson [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:37:00 -0500

I started painting when i was kid, mostly monsters and explosions. Art gave me new meaning once again and renewed my vigor. Ever since i got into graffiti letters and typography has been a focus of much of my work. Though my love of typography and color i try to make deeply layered paintings that require more then just a glance to judge it. I do believe it is a pop cultural imprint of my generation.The things i have been painting for the lost couple of years i would classify as Modern pop art with a comic-graffiti twang.

Wiley Robertson

Sam Booker [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:17:52 -0500

I like comic books and ancient mythology, mostly because I think they're the same thing.

Sam Booker

nelson loskamp [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:16:22 -0500

I have supported my art as a hairdresser for many years. Recently I have been working on a group of paintings based on the magazine clippings brought to me as proposals by my clients for the look they are going for when they come to my salon. More often than not the style is not really possible to recreate on the subject. Wrong length, wrong texture and wrong color…but to them, the photo of the model or actress is what they want to emulate and I do my best to transform them! I am calling the group Salon Girls. Prior to this group of paintings I had always stayed away from painting hair, opting to keep my bodies of work and working life separate.

nelson loskamp

Chrissy Lush [Photography]

Gawker Artists — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:34:40 -0500

This work is an exploration of self and the dualities of life. The pursuit of love and the need for independence. The comfort in being grounded and the dread of being tied down. The security of stability and the fear of the routine. Through constructed images of my relationship within the domestic I have been exploring these dichotomies.

Chrissy Lush

Paul Roe [Digital]

Gawker Artists — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:32:41 -0500

From victorian to sci-fi to beatnik to hippie to gangsta rap to impressionist to indie rock to post modern to imagism to expressionism and all over and back and all over again.

Somehow, someway, I want to, and sometimes do, merge them all in a constant, endless stream.
Cezanne, Whitman, Keats, Yeats, Lakey, Siler, Pope, Swift, and so many more.

The sci-fi of the grecian urn.

The poetry of palpatine.

It all weaves a melting vessel to sail the star solar sails across the inky earthy awful heavens and galaxies.

Paul Roe

johan potma [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:51:23 -0500

I am a 35 year old Dutch painter and illustrator who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. I graduated from the Minerva Art academy (Groningen, the Netherlands) in 2000. My work is made with acrylics and collage on old wooden surfaces like box lids, signs, cigar boxes etc. The materials I use tell part of the story through the stains, old nails,dents and cracks. The other part is told through all sorts of monsters, freaks and oddballs acting out my ideas, and hopefully spark a positive thought in you.

johan potma

Masque Films [Film]

Gawker Artists — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:51:30 -0500

Masque Films is a unique film production company, founded by 5 international artists from varying backgrounds including; opera, fashion, experimental cinema and science. Masque's goal is to search and discover a refined and unique beauty within the film and art world, thus forging a distinct relationship between the two.

Masque Films

Ujwala [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:39:52 -0500

People, their moods and interactions are an ongoing source of curiosity to me. What I'm searching for is their inner personalities, their thoughts and there are stories I build around them as I work. I like portraying feelings of people when they are alone, lost in their thoughts, caught unawares. Those are the special moments that appeal to me most. I love to experiment and use a variety of medium ranging from oil, charcoal, printmaking, clay to the digital medium but my focus remains fixed on the human form.

Ujwala

Sarah Goodreau [Illustration]

Gawker Artists — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:25:09 -0400

formaldehyde in the medicine cabinet. preserving memories and memorabilia.that matchbook from last february. the hair from two years ago. the gravel from your street. most importantly the dreams. you wake up with. and also feathers for when you fly away. thus creating an image that smells like spilt ink and people who never forget.

Sarah Goodreau

Scott Listfield [Painting]

gaintern — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:17:44 -0400

I paint astronauts and, sometimes, dinosaurs.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, before I was born, so I don't know if people really believed we'd be living in space in the future. In many ways, the year 2001 failed to live up to expectations. And yet the world today, filled with mini vans, Starbucks, iMacs, and Hip Hop videos, is strange in ways unimagined back when 2001 was still the future.

The astronaut in my paintings is simply here to explore the present.

Scott Listfield

Lori Nelson [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:25:53 -0400

I like to paint awkward social moments as nicely as I can.

Lori Nelson

Sloe Gin Fizz [Drawing]

Gawker Artists — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:13:19 -0400

Nicole Ray, an Ann Arbor-based illustrator, makes cheerful, quirky drawings often inspired by words: song lyrics, a funny phrase overheard in a passing conversation, poetry, a newspaper article, fairy tales. She focuses on line work and unusual combinations of unlikely pairs: a giraffe in roller skates, a fish dropping from the sky on a balloon, hair that turns into a river.

Sloe Gin Fizz

Barry Sparkman [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:24:36 -0400

I use photo based printmaking techniques to incorporate scientific illustrations of aquatic algae (e.g. Hypnae), DNA molecules, plant and animal cells, botanical images, and pathogens into my paintings and monoprints. I establish visual connections between my own invented images and these evolutionary forms that I encountered in nature. In addition to evoking an emotional response in the viewer through the manipulation of color, shape, line, and texture, these images also precipitate rational thoughts about both the history and current status of our natural world.

Barry Sparkman

Carrie Villines [Photography]

LizDimmitt — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:23:16 -0400

Los Angeles native Carrie Villines received her BA from UCLA and her MFA from Parsons. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and has been published in "ARTnews," The Associated Press and "Graphis." She lives & works in Bushwick.

This image, "Gary Solberg, Freemason," is from the series "Members Only," in which she photographs members of groups she does not belong to.

Carrie Villines

jeffbjohnston [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:01:31 -0400

My work changes each day, and I am finally learning to accept that. Each painting is a new approach that challenges me. I attribute my artisitic A.D.D. to studying Picasso books that covered his career from his Blue Period to Cubism, and my love for eclectic music such as Os Mutantes and Beck. Each song on their records sounds like an entirely new entity from the previous.
My paintings all deal with the figure in one way or another, but how the space on the canvas resolves is up to each new brushstroke. I thrive on mistakes and wrong turns.

jeffbjohnston

Jake [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:07:41 -0400

Jake Nelson was born and raised in Southern Oregon, drawing ever since he could hold a pencil. He studied film at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and began a career as a storyboard artist. In 2007 he moved to Brooklyn and has since been freelance illustrating and painting. "I turn my mind inside out, forget the rules, and render my visions as honestly as possible."

jake

Kirsten McCrea [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:38:50 -0400

I want to live in a world where every home is full of art and it isn't illegal to paint the streets. My paintings and drawings explore issues of cultural memory, looking at pop vs. underground culture, the media, and popular mythologies.

Kirsten McCrea

Esin Erez [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:22:37 -0400

I am an artist who is thoroughly fascinated by the clashes in the visual culture of developing cities between urban/rural, and traditional/modern elements. My painting practice is focused on creating and reinterpreting snapshots of urban life such places, especially Istanbul, where I have grown up. I am interested in elements of my architectural practice into my paintings. This involves both focusing more on my "process"- something that was highly emphasized in my architecture education- and also bringing in perspective drawings and architectural collages into painting as a means of capturing the dynamics of city life that form my subject matter.

Esin Erez

Joe Heaps Nelson [Painting]

edimmitt — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:20:44 -0400

chronicler of bulldogs and interstate trucking. He is also proud to continue the 17,000 year old tradition of mammoth painting, and hopes to spark a resurgence. His deadpan, pop-flavored, post-ironic approach is the result of millions of years of evolution. He aspires to be worthy of the title "gentleman farmer." He is undaunted by the inevitability of death and the ultimate futility of all human endeavor.

www.joeheaps.com

GOOD CHEER: The Cheerleader Paintings Joe Heaps Nelson

Joe Heaps Nelson Interview by Brock Forsblom

Pedro Saldarriaga [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:04:45 -0400

The physical act of painting, the smell of paints and linseed oil, the intrinsic qualities of each brush and palette knife and the intimidating blank canvas, all of this is what makes painting special to me. It's a very personal and intimate act where I question each element, in the end becoming a conversation between the canvas, brushes, and paints. Emotion is my ultimate destination; I search my thoughts, memories, aspirations, and use them as a starting point. I try to solve my problems on the canvas, creating an environment for exploration.

Pedro Saldarriaga

Kiseok [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:58:30 -0400

I explore some sort of human condition in contemporary culture and the relationship between the self and the world. The figures in my work are used as objects to illustrate my own relationship to the world or feelings I have.

Kiseok

Marcin Zeglinski [Digital]

Gawker Artists — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:15:50 -0400

I like space travel, transcendence and trees. I like making pretty pictures with little to no explanation behind them. As such, you will find none here.

Marcin Zeglinski

Wolf & Pack [Other]

Gawker Artists — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:20:43 -0400

Wolf and Pack was born of necessity rather than coincidence. The need to produce rather than sit back and judge. Started in 2002 in NYC by Gabriel Hunter and Julian Lynn over drinks at a bar called Max Fish, things seemed simple, produce shirts we wanted to wear. Sell some, give some away, keeping occupied was job one. This momentum, and overwhelming response to our efforts, carried us all the way to Amsterdam NL to open the Wolf and Pack shop, while also expanding the emphasis to working with artists we admire and support in our split level shop / art gallery space. We look forward to continuing the journey of exposing new thoughts and ideas be they cloth, canvas or digital.

Wolf & Pack

pamelaVITALE [Mixed Media]

Gawker Artists — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:30:31 -0400

Artist by nature all my life born to be creative in every way.... painter, dancer, performance, music/sound, sculpture, video, poetry...screenplays, indie films you name it I've tried it. In my creative process I express the deepest darkest ideas of the mind, soul and body by using situations, figures and artificial shapes to emulate nature in a futuristic way. I also use layering, transparency and texture to express these ideas...whether societal, emotional or political.

pamelaVITALE

Stefan Verstappen [Installlation]

Gawker Artists — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:18:32 -0400

Stefan H. Verstappen (born 1957, Toronto, Canada) is a writer, world traveler, and artist. Verstappen's interactive public art installations combine multiple sensory stimuli with scientific and artistic principles. Each installation requires the viewer to interact with the piece in order to unlock the different messages. By interacting with the piece each viewer also plays a role in a scientific demonstration that teaches basic laws of science and the arts.

Stefan Verstappen

Two Sevens [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:55:47 -0400

Matthew McGowan (Two Sevens) believes beauty can be skin deep. With tattoos becoming more socially acceptable every day, lost on most is how the art form started. By incorporating both traditional Japanese and American style tattooing styles, Matthew tries to bring to the forefront the beauty and courage of those who wanted to tell the story of their soul through their skin, even if society wasn't ready to see it. Whether it be a '50's pin-up or a modern Geisha, the subject is proud of who they are. They tell their life story on their skin, never hiding behind the social norm.

Two Sevens

Paolo Morales [Photography]

Gawker Artists — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:36:39 -0400

My pictures are about relationships. I am trying to fill the role of a muse. I invite women to sit for portraits because I find them attractive. Some characters appear once while others occur multiple times. Women become replaceable and interchangeable. Subjects have plump faces, flowing hair and big eyes. Some of them look as if they just fell out of a painting at the Met. The pictures place women on pedestals, glorifying yet objectifying them. The poses are awkward and elegant. Their gaze is inviting yet passive.

Paolo Morales

Kombo Chapfika [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:11:01 -0400

As my world view evolves so do my choices of media and themes. I draw inspiration from the people around me and current events to form a chaotic bricolage of pretty fragments. Recurring themes of my work include, technological fragmentation and it's implications for our lives. Abstracting the backgrounds, I add increasingly cohesive layers, often including figures, braille, handwritten text, and minutiae line work. The intentional symbols intermingle with the unintentional to encourage imagination through suggestion.

Kombo Chapfika

Nira Dahan [Painting]

Gawker Artists — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:54:53 -0400

Growing up in Israel, Nira has always tried to convey her longing for peace for the human race through her art. In Jerusalem, city of all nations, Nira found inspiration for her art. For over 30 years, Nira has been displaying her passion for the harmony between cultures, by painting all humans equally, With warm and colorful details. The love for mankind is shown through her artwork with great passion. She had dozens of art exhibits at galleries, museums, temples and conventions in Europe and the USA.

Nira Dahan

Beth Herzhaft [Photography]

Gawker Artists — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:45:14 -0400

I am currently working on a series of contemporary photographic landscapes I call "area photography".

The subject matter I gravitate toward is unspectacular, and the images are a
mischievous reaction to "epic" photography. There is a tension between meaning and meaninglessness that is expressed in this work.

This series is an exploration of the ephemeral, the peripheral. I am looking for the monumental in the yard: neglect's found aesthetic. Through the juxtaposition of spatial elements, use of color and light, and choice of subject, a sort of "discovered" narrative emerges, highlighting incompleteness as a condition of everyday life.

Ben Herzhaft

Ferestec [Film]

Gawker Artists — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:40:13 -0400

-yes to landscapes and thinking about images of paintings
–yes to raw images classically composed
–yes to raw images that leave you thinking that they could aswell have been retouched
–and yes to ditching the high vs low culture dychotomy.
trying to find out whether all the above has any sense at all, and leaving behind everything that is wrong–perfection can be achieved!
(although it might not look like perfection was supposed to look)

Ferestec