Recent Posts Tagged With 'artists'

• Victoria Reynolds

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 17:37 in oil, artists

  More raw meat! I don't know what it is that makes me like these paintings of gross slabs of meat. But I guess I have always been drawn to morbid and slightly disgusting things. Oil paintings by Victoria Reynolds, who will be at Hammer Museum in LA on...

• Lucas Reiner

  Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 23:57 in oil, artists

  LA artist Lucas Reiner will be at the MOCA Pacific Design Center on March 14th, 3pm along with Fred Dewey for a reception/discussion/book signing for newly published Los Angeles Trees 2001-2008: Paintings, Drawings, Filmstills.The trees of Los Angele...

• YaYa Chou

  Posted on Monday February 16th, 2009 at 23:43 in artists, mixed media, installations

  Taiwan born, Los Angeles transplant YaYa Chou is a jack of all creative trades. She started out with filmmaking, animation and moved on to installation, sculpture and mixed media painting. She uses rather unconventional materials; gummy bears, licori...

• Francesca Woodman

  Posted on Saturday February 14th, 2009 at 22:58 in Photography, artists

  Amazing, haunting, personal, yet detached self-portraits and portraits by American photographer Francesca Woodman....

• Judith Schaechter

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 22:28 in artists, stained glass

  Judith Schaechter creates modern stained glass in a distinct pop surrealist style. Not only are these pieces perfectly made in a tradition that dates back to the A.D. era, they are at the same time new and innovative in its imagery expression.More on...

• Patrice Longo Dworkin

  Posted on Saturday February 7th, 2009 at 23:38 in artists, mixed media

  Using anything but a standard white canvas adds another layer of interest to the artwork, as with Patrice Longo Dworkin's mixed media paintings on acrylic panel. I especially like her newer pieces where the organic shapes take on a more abstract form...

• Annie Lapin

  Posted on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 21:33 in oil, artists, mixed media

  I saw two of Annie Lapins paintings at the LA25-Half life exhibit at LACE last year and I like her abstract (but not completely), heavy layered, oil and mixed media paintings where everything seems to be in motion.All images from Angles Gallery. ...

• Paper + Cutting = Art

  Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 11:00 in artists

  Peter Callesen, a danish artist, is using the good old A4 white paper in an absolutely magical way. By cutting out intricate, sometimes simple, designs and using the cut out paper to sculpt fantastic forms, he marries 2D with 3D.The range of his art ...

• Kehinde Wiley

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 15:39 in oil, artists

  Los Angeles born New York transplant Kehinde Wiley paints the most amazing portraits in a style that is a fusion between classical and new. Black, modern hip hop men are reincarnated in poses inspired by classical portraits by Van Dyke, Hans Holbein ...

• Lori LaMont

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 14:35 in artists, watercolor

  I saw local talent Lori LaMont's work at Long Beach Museum of Art sometime last year and was really inspired by her vibrant watercolors. Being from Europe I am used to seeing watercolor paintings that are pale and soft with a lot of the paper showing...

• Cindy Wright

  Posted on Thursday January 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 in oil, artists

  Belgian artist Cindy Wright creates these amazing large scale oil paintings. Most of her work is at least over 45"X45" with some canvases stretching over 78". She has a thing for flesh, human as well as animal and she paints it in perfect photo reali...

• Willy Wonka Cubism

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 13:00 in oil, artists, acrylic

  It's not surprising to find out that Ken Berman has a degree in architecture. His oil/acrylic/alkyd paintings sometimes looks like architectural blueprints and most often like complicated contraptions with hints to cubism and the industrial revolutio...

• Swedish Lowbrow

  Posted on Wednesday January 14th, 2009 at 17:18 in artists, mixed media, digital print

  Mia Mäkilä is a Swedish lowbrow mixed medium artist. She paints her inner demons on antique photographs, creates collages with lots of nudity, fire-y farts, phallos symbols and animal/human figures. She also creates fantastic digital prints....

• Hilary White

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 15:12 in artists, mixed media, installations

  Extremely talented Hilary White is blowing my mind with her intricate mixed media pieces. There's so much details, so many different layers of color and texture but it never feels too much or overdone.I'm especially loving her "Through Wilderness" se...

• Nishiki Tayui

  Posted on Saturday January 10th, 2009 at 16:33 in artists, watercolor, ink

  Japanese-American artist Nishiki Tayui does mostly ink and watercolor paintings, but also some oil paintings and wood prints. Lots of organic forms, mixed with pale colors and writing in layer upon layer. If Hokusai had been a graffiti artist without...

• I like...

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 18:57 in inspiration, artists

  Brian Despain. The colors, the subjects, the milieus. This is some superb pop surrealism. I want all of these on my walls please!...

• Bosch

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 19:17 in inspiration, artists

  He was the original surrealist, 400 years before surreal even was a word - Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516). Great inspiration for today's pop surrealists....

• Pictor Dentata

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 19:11 in oil, artists

  I love weird subjects painted in a classic style.Behold Daniel Albrigo's brilliant oil paintings of dentures:...