Sunday, April 29th 2012
Brandon Maldonado
“Brandon Maldonado was born in 1980. He resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an environment rich in Hispanic arts and culture. As a child, he was introduced to the fantastical realm of Star Wars and the monsters of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which first sparked his artistic imagination. In his teens he turned to graffiti, an influence that still can be seen in his works to this day.”
Ascension
“Maldonado holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from the College of Santa Fe with a focus in Philosophy and world religion he also holds an associate’s degree in fine arts but considers himself to be a primarily self taught artist whose most essential technical development was based on the independent study of the paintings of the old masters including Jan Van Eyck and Dominique Ingres among others.”
Our lady of the Merciful fate.
The first time I saw Brandon Maldonado’s work was inRock Paper Gallery in Madrid, NM. I loved his work the first time I saw it and am continuously inspired by it. I love the proportions, the way in which he paints, and the emotions I felt when viewing the pieces. It was nice to know that there was a local artist whose style was so different from the usual landscapes and abstract simple art and more in sync with what I find fascinating.
Until Death...
http://www.brandonmaldonado.com/index.shtml
http://www.brandonmaldonado.com/index.shtml
Wednesday, March 28th 2012
CallowLily
“CallowLily was born with whiskey in her veins, fire in her eyes and a paintbrush in her hand. From a very young age, she knew that her purpose was to replicate whatever was in her head for others to see. She has spent much her life bringing out the beauty in what many find to be dark, dirty and disgusting.”
“CallowLily was born with whiskey in her veins, fire in her eyes and a paintbrush in her hand. From a very young age, she knew that her purpose was to replicate whatever was in her head for others to see. She has spent much her life bringing out the beauty in what many find to be dark, dirty and disgusting.”
artfag.
“Locked away in her art studio, the lady that dreams of love for zombies, vampires and werewolves spends her time shouting to the heavens with a voice made of ink and rage. Her art, spilled out on pages in a mixture of blood and guts, has been described as “beautiful”, “influential”, “daring” and “sexy”.”
“Locked away in her art studio, the lady that dreams of love for zombies, vampires and werewolves spends her time shouting to the heavens with a voice made of ink and rage. Her art, spilled out on pages in a mixture of blood and guts, has been described as “beautiful”, “influential”, “daring” and “sexy”.”
white rabbit
"Pain and rebellion, the result of a dysfunctional childhood and 9 years of Catholic school, come across only within her work. As a person, CallowLily is an enigmatic and caring individual that is simply trying to figure out this world; the same as everyone else.”
cat got her tongue. Alice V
CallowLily is one of the first artists to inspire me greatly, I also discovered her on Deviantart. Her creations are so colorful and almost naïve but with so much emotion and symbolism crammed into them. She creates a world where art truly saves, a place where happiness and sadness go hand in hand.
Cover me in tea.
http://callowlily.com/
http://callowlily.com/
Wednesday, February 29th 2012
Natalie Shau
I discovered Natalie Shau on Deviantart like I have with a lot of other talented artists. I’ve watched her grow and go onto greater things. She’s created CD covers for several different music artists and also has a new fashion photography project and art book.
Glass Soul
“Natalie Shau is mixed media artist and photographer of Russian and Kazakhstan descent based in Lithuania (Vilnius). She found interest in fashion and portrait photography as well as digital illustration and photo art.”
“Despite her personal work, Natalie also creates artwork and photography for musicians, theater, fashion magazines, writers and advertisement.”
Lady Violet
Usually I’m not a huge fan of digital artwork but Shau does it in a way that it’s crafted as beautifully as traditional art. She uses her own photography and combines reality with fantasy, creating a slightly creepy authentic yet vacant essence, like that of taxidermy. Her characters seem real enough but lack that certain something, alive but not feeling. She also includes common everyday objects in her pieces that we’re forced to see in a different way.
Vanity Doesn't Need a Heart
Usually I’m not a huge fan of digital artwork but Shau does it in a way that it’s crafted as beautifully as traditional art. She uses her own photography and combines reality with fantasy, creating a slightly creepy authentic yet vacant essence, like that of taxidermy. Her characters seem real enough but lack that certain something, alive but not feeling. She also includes common everyday objects in her pieces that we’re forced to see in a different way.
Natalie Shau is by far one of my favorite artists (among my many). She did the album cover for Kerlis’ “Love Is Dead” (which I own and love) and I can’t wait to find out where her amazing talents and beautiful creations take her in the future.
Rose
/http://natalieshau.carbonmade.com/
/http://natalieshau.carbonmade.com/
Wednesday, January 4th 2012
Kukula
I came across Kukulas work in several different places on the internet. I couldn’t tell you where I first found out about her but the first time I took an interest in her was actually here on blogspot, though she doesn’t post to often anymore.
In My Last Hour
“Kukula was born in a relatively isolated village about an hour north of Tel Aviv. Her few neighbors were mostly retirees, many of them Holocaust survivors. As a result her childhood imagination was nourished by equal parts princess fantasies and World War II horror stories. Thus the attempt to reconcile real life horror with fantasy sweetness emerges as an almost constant theme in her work.”
Sad News From Abroad
“Kukula's paintings center on feminine, doll-like figures, often surrounded by objects with sometimes clear, sometimes obscure symbolic meaning. The work registers the influences of both classical European art forms and contemporary pop culture. In her figures' poses Kukula recalls classical portraiture, yet the style is manifestly modern and pop-influenced. Kukula's compositions thereby disclose her personal struggles as mediated by a rich multi-cultural heritage.”
Tree Of Inspiration
I love that her subjects are females whom seem to have the face of a little girls but the body of a teenage ones. The colors she uses are either neutrals or light pastels. I’d enjoy if I could work in a larger variety of color but still keep my distinct style, which she does very well. She also paints very soft-looking, sometimes almost semi-transparent, which adds to the innocent girlish atmosphere that’s created.
Growth and Creation
Saturday, June 4th 2011
Joel-Peter Witkin
Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives here in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions), and various “outsiders” such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. I love amputations and slightly exaggerated body parts in my artwork, so when I found Witkin I knew he’d be inspiring.
Los Meninas 1987
He worked as a war photographer between 1961 and 1964 during the Vietnam war. In 1967, he decided to work as a freelance photographer. Later, he attended Cooper Union in New York where he studied sculpture and became Bachelor of Arts in 1974. After the Columbia University granted him a scholarship, he ended his studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he became Master of Fine Arts.
He worked as a war photographer between 1961 and 1964 during the Vietnam war. In 1967, he decided to work as a freelance photographer. Later, he attended Cooper Union in New York where he studied sculpture and became Bachelor of Arts in 1974. After the Columbia University granted him a scholarship, he ended his studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he became Master of Fine Arts.
Cupid & Centaur in the Museum of Love
Witkin claims that his vision and sensibility were initiated by an episode he witnessed when he was just a small child, a car accident that occurred in front of his house in which a little girl was decapitated.
“It happened on a Sunday when my mother was escorting my twin brother and me down the steps of the tenement where we lived. We were going to church. While walking down the hallway to the entrance of the building, we heard an incredible crash mixed with screaming and cries for help. The accident involved three cars, all with families in them. Somehow, in the confusion, I was no longer holding my mother's hand. At the place where I stood at the curb, I could see something rolling from one of the overturned cars. It stopped at the curb where I stood. It was the head of a little girl. I bent down to touch the face, to speak to it -- but before I could touch it someone carried me away".
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He also claims that the difficulties in his family were an influence for his work too. His favorite artist is Giotto.
Mother and Child 1979 (one of my favourites)
Some of Witkin's works, namely those with corpses in them, have had to be created in Mexico in order to get around restrictive US laws.
Some of Witkin's works, namely those with corpses in them, have had to be created in Mexico in order to get around restrictive US laws.
His techniques include scratching the negative, bleaching or toning the print, and using a hands-in-the-chemicals printing technique. This experimentation began after seeing a 19th-century ambrotype of a woman and her ex-lover who had been scratched from the frame.
The Result of War The Cornucopian Dog 1984
Wednesday, May 4th 2011
Sienna Freeman
Sienna Freeman is another artist I found from WhoKilledBambi. She uses her own photography and drawings in her collages. Most of the subject matter is a collaboration between humans and animals.
Sienna Freeman is another artist I found from WhoKilledBambi. She uses her own photography and drawings in her collages. Most of the subject matter is a collaboration between humans and animals.
I love doing collage but never have an easy time with it. Sienna makes it look easy with her simple compositions and clear meanings/motives. It’s smart that she uses her own photographs, especially when you have a vision but can’t execute it with the available materials.
“My work explores the transitory nature of self-perception, memory, and emotion. Through collage, I seek to simulate and re-evaluate pivotal moments in my life. Working with self generated photos and drawings as well as appropriated materials, I aim to digest the fleeting moments of extreme emotion and physical sensation that expose the complicated nature of life, death, and the contemporary living experience. I am interested in territories between the intellect and senses, places where the logical mind and the subconscious interface with a deeper sense of self.”-Sienna Freeman
Tuesday, April 26th 2011
Victoria Reynolds
Victoria Reynolds is a Los Angeles based artist who paints, flesh and raw meat, and sets the paintings in ornate rococo or baroque style frames. Oil on panel is the medium she uses. Her work refers to the Venetian art of painting flesh, Dutch vanitas, kitchen and butcher stall scenes, divine sacrifice, and society’s use and sacrifice of animals.
I found Victoria through WhokilledBambi and really love her artwork. The meat and ornate frames in general are very beautiful and grabbed my attention. I’d love to paint like that someday in the future. All the different color variations, blood vessels, and white vein-like fat are eye candy to me.
I love the fact that because she’s painting a natural object, each one is unique in its own way, always. I also love how she took something that could easily be sickening, raw, gross, and presented it in a way that’s delicate, soft and lovely.
