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Justin Gabbard

Posted by Fabio 9 July 2010

Justin Gabbard lives and works in the East Village, NY. Drawing inspiration from pop music, new york storefront signs, bright colors and loud people, he creates likenesses from a combination of strong shapes and graphic hand made details that capture the eye. read more

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Tal R

Posted by Thorbjorn 7 July 2010

Tal R (born 1967) is an artist based in Copenhagen. Tal R was born in Israel. He studied at Billedskolen, Copenhagen, 1986–1988 and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1994–2000. Tal R’s painting style is described as “kolbojnik”, which means “left-overs”, a Hebrew word for “jack-of-all-trades.”. read more

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Russell Patterson

Posted by Fabio 5 July 2010

Russell Patterson (December 26, 1893 – March 17, 1977) was a celebrated and prolific American cartoonist, illustrator and scenic designer. Patterson’s art deco magazine illustrations helped promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style known as the flapper. Patterson was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Although he claimed he knew at age 17 that he wanted to be a magazine cover artist, he took a circuitous route to his ultimate success in that field. read more

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Oliver Laric

Posted by Thorbjorn 2 July 2010

At the level of the image, the determinations of the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648), as in so many other incidents of iconoclastic ‘image-breaking’ leading up to the present day, were predicated on a clear-cut Manichean sense of difference. During this period, statues and images of a religious order were subjected to sustained physical attack. read more

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Yosigo Naiz

Posted by Thorbjorn 30 June 2010

Spanish photographer Yosigo Naiz from San Sebastián shoots people, places and spaces in a very documenting and observing way, one senses that the people within the photographs never knew Naiz was there capturing them. Here is a selection of lovely photos from the beach as well as some Aqua theme park. read more

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Roxanne Jackson

Posted by Thorbjorn 28 June 2010

Roxanne Jackson is a sculptor based in Minneapolis, she completed an MFA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004, since then she has been busy creating rather sombre and grotesque pieces of art as Jackson describes herself. “I am concerned with confronting the shadows of the unconscious, having a dialogue with the grotesque and, therein, discovering beauty. read more

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Richard Colman

Posted by Fabio 24 June 2010

Richard Colman was born in 1976 and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Colman graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, in 2002. He has exhibited extensively throughout the world in solo and group exhibitions. In 2006, Gingko Press released a book cataloging his work titled “I Was Just Leaving.” Colman currently lives and works in San Francisco, California. read more

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Adolf Hoffmeister

Posted by Fabio 22 June 2010

Adolf Hoffmeister (1902-1973) was a poet, novelist, translator and editor. He edited one of the main Czech daily newspapers, Lidové noviny (1928-30) and the main literary paper, Literární noviny (1930-32). He was also a talented artist and caricaturist, often illustrating his own work. read more