Julie Verhoeven (present)

Julie Verhoeven, of London, is a fashion designer and illustrator. She holds a degree in fashion design. During her career, thus far, Julie has worked with big brands including, Louis Vuitton, Versace, Mulberry and H&M. Verhoeven creates mixed media illustrations that stand out from those of most designer-illustrators.

Luca Mantovanelli (present)

Based out of London, Luca Mantovanelli's illustrations have gained strong interest in the art community. Mantovanelli combines oil paint and pencil together to create unique illustrations. Now only does one get the unity of the pencil and oil, but of the expressions of the two creatures that he often combines in his illustrations, bird and human.

Jeff Kauck (present)

Jeff Kauck, of Chicago, is known for his culinary photography. Kauck's photographic talent arose from his background as a watercolorist. Seeing light as a watercolorist set the boundaries for his work as a photographer. Thus, his images uniquely portray food, strongly differing from many other photographers of the same subject matter.

Antoine Caecke (present)

Antoine Caecke is a French illustrator. Caecke just released a book of illustrations titled "Jacquards." A jacquard is the French word for a specific type of sweater (featured below). Caecke fills his book with these fantastic sweater illustrations.

Lena Wolff (present)

Lena Wolff is a San Francisco based mixed-media artist. She earned an MFA in Printmaking from San Francisco State University. Some of the works that she is particularly known for are her cut-paper collages. One of these collages is featured below. Here is a link to her personal website: http://lenawolff.com/

Lakeca (present)

Lakeca, who only goes by the one name, is a British fashion illustrator. Her illustrations contain different media. Her works express emotions. She uses things like ink, magazine cut-outs, and photoshop.

Katsumi Hayakawa

Katsumi Hayakawa is a Japanese sculpture artist. He creates intricate paper sculptures. Currently, he has an exhibition at Gallery MoMo in Roppongi. You may visit his personal website here: http://katsumihayakawa.com/

Johan Thörnqvist

Johan Thörnqvist is a Swedish illustrator. He has his own artistic style. He uses photographs and draws imaginary cities and objects on them. You may visit his website here: http://www.snarlik.se/

Sung Yeonju (present)

Sung Yeonju creates wearable food art out of fruits and vegetables. She lives and works out of Korea. She will have an exhibition in Los Angeles soon in 2011. You may visit her personal website here: http://www.yeonju.me/

Kelly Smith (present)

Kelly Smith is an Australian illustrator. Most of her works consist of pencil and paint. Her main focuses for her drawings are fashion and celebrities. Smith graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Tasmanian School of Art. Her work has been displayed commercially.  You may visit her personal website here: http://www.birdyandme.com.au/

Nick Gentry (present)

Nick Gentry, a graduate of Central Saint Martins, creates recycled art with obsolete media storage as his medium. After assembling floppy disks together, he paints portraits over them. “The floppy disk stands firm and lives on as a metaphor for the increasing pace of the modern life cycle, mass production and the throwaway culture of today.” -NG. He does not have a personal website. 

Fabrizio Arrieta (present)

Fabrizio Arrieta is a Costa Rican painter. Currently, he is holding his first exhibition in Panama City. At the gallery are a series of paintings depicting his ‘cut + paste’ reinterpretations of elements from world fashion in today’s visually powerful culture. "Arrieta adheres to the idea that the artist should function as a mediator or translator of his era."-TL review (www.trendland.net). He does not have a personal website. 

Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903)

Paul Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Gauguin quit his job and left his wife and children to pursue painting. Gauguin moved away from city life to the country. In his paintings, Gauguin used many vivid colors. He was influenced by folk art and Japanese prints. Unsatisfied even with country life, he moved to Tahiti where he painted. He wanted to move away from normal human society to get to the raw core of humans. Tahiti was perfect because of how underdeveloped the people were there. 

Vincent van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)

Vincent van Gogh was unsatisfied with academic art and created many paintings that portrayed realism, but not shown realistically. Instead, he emphasized realism with his color choice. Also, he used color to portray his own mood and emotions about things. Van Gogh was the first to do that. He had a very unsuccessful career and is said to have sold only one painting in his lifetime, which was only months before he died. He also lived a very depressed life, which is conveyed in many of his paintings. He died at the age of 37. 

Cuno Amiet (28 March 1868 – 6 July 1961)

Cuno Amiet was a Swiss Expressionist painter. He was inspired by some of van Gogh's and Gauguin's work when he attended the Pont-Aven school in France. Amiet was inspired by their use of color. Thus, he got very excited about color and learned to use it freely and for his own happiness. He was taught by artist Ferdinand Hodler for a period of time and was inspired by his use of figures. Later on, Amiet adapted a more free use of color after being inspired by the Fauvist artists. He put color use above form. 

Micci Cohen (present)

Micci Cohen of New-Rochelle, NY is a painter and graphic artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. Cohan has exhibited professionally for 25 years. According to the biography of Cohen on her website: Her wish is that her art moves the viewer in some way creating a moment for them. That they might be awakened to her sense of passion and spirit and their world somehow become enhanced by it. You may visit her personal website here: http://www.miccicohan.net

LULU* (present)

Berlin based artist, LULU*, goes by the single name. She is a mixed media fashion illustrator. She combines hand drawing with computer additions. In 2002, LULU* graduated best in her class with a degree in design from the Cologne International School of Design. She has also worked in a design firm in San Francisco. She works for some high-end clients such as Bloomingdale's and Mercedes Benz. You may visit her personal website here: http://www.plasticpirate.com

Charlie Edmiston (present)

Charlie Edmiston attended the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles from 2005 - 2009 and holds a BFA in painting. Edmiston creates abstract, graphic paintings on paper and wood. Some of the paintings are part of sequences, while others stand alone. His work has been displayed in both Los Angeles and NY. You may visit his personal website here: http://www.charlieedmiston.com

Alexandra Lekias (present)

Alexandra Lekias of Perth, Australia, is a contemporary illustrator. Her work is strong with symbolism and ironic images. Lekias' works are inspired by her personal dreams and memories. She also explores the themes of childhood, sentimental nostalgia, and popular culture. Her illustrations are quite bizarre as they are strongly based on black ink as the main medium with vivid splashed of color. You may find out more information about her here: http://www.friendsofleon.com/

Alain Delorme (present)

Alain Delorme lives and works out of Paris. Delorme holds a degree from the Gobelins school of applied arts, print and digital media. He holds a Masters degree in Science and Technology in Photography from the University of Paris. Photography is his career focus. His work is displayed in different areas worldwide. The photograph below is from his photographic series called 'Totems.' Delorme was fascinated by migrants' loads in Shanghai. In 'Totems,' he has photographed piles of stacked 'made in china' products which form unusual sculptures. You can visit his personal website here: http://www.alaindelorme.com/

Thomas Rentmeister (Present)

Thomas Rentmeister, of Berlin, is an installation/sculpture artist. His work has been displayed across Germany. Seeing his pieces makes the viewer see common objects in a new way. The way that Rentmeister displays a lot of his works is different from a usual gallery display, as shown below:

You may visit his personal website here: http://www.thomasrentmeister.de/english/

Belinda Chen (Present)

Belinda Chen is a Berlin based fashion illustrator. She also creates mixed media collages. She creates both simple and intricate pieces. I could not find more information on her. However, I was really drawn to her beautiful illustrations and find them very inspiring for my love for fashion and art.

Craig Hawkins (Present)

Craig Hawkins, who currently attends school and works out of Georgia, is a painter. Craig Hawkins is a graduate with a B.F.A in Fine Art from Valdosta State University in 2001 and is currently seeking a M.F.A. at the University of Georgia. He is set to graduate in 2011. Hawkins is honest in his work. Hawkins describes his work as, “the evidence of taking truth and imagining it." You can find out more about Hawkins on his personal website: http://www.craighawkinsart.com

Aron Wiesenfeld (Present)

Aron Wiesenfeld, born in Washington, DC, is a painter. His work has been displayed nation-wide and in The Netherlands and Canada. His paintings consist of many human figures that are elongated and quite eerie looking. In 1992, he attended Cooper Union School of Art, NY. He received his B.A. from the Art Center College of Design, CA in 2000.  You may visit his personal website here: http://www.aronwiesenfeld.com

Tobias Putrih (Present)

Tobias Putrih, of Kranj, Slovenia, is a sculpter. He lives and works in Cambridge, MA and NY. His work has been displayed internationally. Putrih uses common, everyday materials like cardboard, wood, and Styrofoam to create fragile looking structures.

AJ Fosik (Present)

AJ Fosik creates eclectic, wooden animal sculptures. They are displayed at the David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, Colorado. The sculptures are supposed to evoke deep thought. At the first sight, they feature images that look familiar, but with a further look, they take you out of your comfort zone and expand the definition of culture and assumption. More on the artist can be found on this website: http://www.davidbsmithgallery.com/artist/show/aj-fosik

Nick Van Woert (Present)

 Nick Van Woert, born in Reno, Nevada, now lives and works out of Brooklyn, NY as a sculptor. His work has been displayed internationally. Woert pours colored plaster on his sculptures. That is his most recent series. You can visit his personal website here: http://work.fourteensquarefeet.com/

Damián Ortega (present)

Damián Ortega creates sculptures, installations, videos and actions inspired by a wide range of everyday objects. Damián Ortega was born in 1967 in Mexico City; he currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Ortega has exhibited worldwide. In one of his most recent projects he created a suspended, disassembled VW gray Beetle. The result was both a diagram and a fragmented object that offered a new way of seeing the “people’s car” first developed in Nazi Germany but now produced en masse in his native Mexico (source: www.whitecube.com).

Diem Chau (Present)

Diem Chau, who was born in Saigon, Vietnam, is a contemporary sculpture artist. She received her BFA from the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. Her work often includes storytelling and myths. She is inspired by these things because stories and myths can connect cultures through humanistic similarities (referenced from Chau's webstite). Chau has displayed her work in various galleries across the US. You may visit her personal website here: http://www.diemchau.com

Paolo Fumagalli (present)

Paolo Fumagalli, based in Florence, Italy, is a contemporary, conceptual piece sculptor. He tends to use contrasting materials together, such as hard things with soft things. His sculptures often look very animated because he adds eyes and tongues to many found objects. Fumagalli was born in Geneva, Switzerland, but his family moved to Florence soon after his birth. He holds  degrees in industrial design from both Istituto Europeo di Design Milan, Italy and the Chelsea School of Art and Design London, UK. You may visit his personal website here:  http://www.paolo-fumagalli.com

Agustina Woodgate (present)

Agustina Woodgate is an artist based out of Miami, Florida. Her work includes a variety of media including photography, installations, sculpture, video and performance. Currently, she is most known for making things out of something most people find off-putting: human hair. The way that Woodgate acquires the hair for her work is quite bizarre. She sets up a mobile salon in different cities and people show up to ask about what is happening. When she tells them that it is for her art, many volunteer and feel fine with her cutting off their hair-- even though she is not even close to being a hair stylist. A selection from her work is pictured below. You may visit her personal website here: www.agustinawoodgate.com

“I remember very clearly as a child four generations of hair; my great grandmother, my grandmother, my mother and me, all of us with our real brushes and our real hair. My work has a lot to do not especially with hair, but rather that hair became the material that I needed to communicate the concept of identity. In that respect, the concept rather than the material itself drives my work. Its not that I am a hair artist; it just so happens that when I tried to say something about my life the material that contained the most meaning or honesty, the material which said everything that objects could and more was hair.”
                                     -Agustina Woodgate

This castle is made entirely of blocks of human hair.

Ben Heine (present)

Ben Heine is a Belgian artist of many forms. He is an illustrator, painter, portraitist, caricaturist, and photographer. He lives and works out of Brussels, Belgium. His main subjects of study in college were graphic design and and sculpture. Heine also holds a degree in journalism. Heine has a very specific work style. One artistic thing that he is known for doing is covering up portions of photographs and inserting drawings of his own visions of what should be there instead. This series is titles Pencil vs. Camera. To see more, visit his website here: http://www.benheine.com/

Anish Kapoor (present)

Anish Kapoor, an Indian-born sculptor, holds degrees from the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. Both of these schools are in Britain, where Kapoor resides. Today, his work is displayed internationally. One of Kapoor's most notable works is titled Cloud Gate. Cloud Gate had been nicknamed "The Bean." It is the centerpiece of the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park, Chicago, IL. Kapoor is a recipient of the Turner Prize, an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50.

Julia Chiang (present)

Julia Chiang, a Brooklyn-based artist, creates sculptures and installation artwork. She uses a wide variety of materials in her work. A recent work of hers has been displayed at the ohwow gallery in Miami, Florida. The work is an installation piece that is made entirely of ring pop candy. The candy looks like pixels and spells out words and sayings. The work has an interesting effect when it stays on the gallery walls over time. Eventually, the ring pops melt as they are displayed under gallery lights and they drip down colors, staining the walls.

Tim Walker (present)

Photographer Tim Walker of London, England has been working for Vogue for over a decade now. Walker holds a BA degree from the Exeter College of Art. Post graduation, he did freelance photography work in London, then moved to NYC to work as a full time assistant to photographic icon Richard Avedon, and then returned to the UK to concentrate on portrait and documentary work for newspapers. At the early age of 25 he got the opportunity to shoot his first fashion story for Vogue. The Victoria and Alber Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London feature Walker's photographs in their permanent collections. You may visit his personal website here: http://www.timwalkerphotography.com/

Sarah Rahbar (present)

Sarah Rahbar was born in Tehran, but had to flee from her birthplace due to war. Currently, she resides and works in New York. Rahbar received an education in design at The Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, followed by a masters in fine art at Central Saint Martins Collage of Art and Design in London. Her work has been displayed in a large variety of areas. From Iran, to all over Europe, to all over the United States. Her flag series, pictured below, shows the two different cultures which she has experienced. You may visit Rahbar's personal website here: http://www.sararahbar.com/

George Fischer (present)

George Fischer is an American surrealist artist. He attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago, IL and his work has been displayed across the US. Fischer mixes oil, acrylic, graphite and collages on wood panels. Fischer is a still life surrealist painter who paints ordinary objects of our everyday lives, but creates them in a way so that they belong in a different world-- a surreal world. You can visit his personal website here: http://www.geofischer.com/

Francesca Wadell (present)

Francesca Wadell is Scottish fashion illustrator who studied Fine Art Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art. Afterwards, she studied fashion design, which is when she discovered her love for fashion illustration. She uses classic ink combined with photoshop manipulation to create her images. She works for clients in the fashion and beauty industries, working for Vogue Turkey and Bloomingdales, online fashion magazines Cellardoor, The Coveted Mag and The Skinny. You can visit her website here: http://www.francescawaddell.com/

Yukari Terakado (present)

Yukari Terakado is a Japanese illustration artist. Unfortunately, there is very brief information about her online. However, this did not prevent me from posting about her because I am very drawn to the intricacies of her illustrations. Terakado works primarily with acrylics and colored pencils. She uses her lines to create beautiful images of women. Here is a link to her website: http://yukariterakado.jimdo.com

James Turrell (present)

James Turrell of Pasadena, California uses light as his main medium in art-making. He is an installation artist. Turrell explores the diversities of this intangible medium and works to define space with his light medium. Light causes surface, color, and space to interact, which puts the viewers of Turrell's work in a painterly world. Turrell received a BA degree from Pomona College in psychology in 1965; he received an MA degree in art from Claremont Graduate School, University of California, Irvine in 1966. 

Pablo Garcia Lopez (present)

Pablo Garcia Lopez of Madrid, Spain combines neuroscience and art to create some of the most unique works today. Lopez has an impressive resume as he holds a B.A. in Biology from the University Autonoma in Madrid, a PhD. in Neuroscience from the University Complutense of Madrid, and an MFA in sculpture from MICA. On his website, Lopez writes that he is "interested in making associations between both disciplines to popularize the discoveries related to the functioning of the brain, trying to create a more humanistic culture." One of his sculptures is titled "39 Brains Forming a Flower." In this piece, Lopez silkscreened paper. The piece is shown below. Here is a link to his personal website: http://pablogarcialopez.com/home.html

Christo (present) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009)

Christo, Bulgarian, and Jeanne-Claude, French, have created many works of environmental installation art together since 1994. Prior to that date, works were only credited to Christo. Since Jean-Claude passed away in 2009, Christo continues to create environmental installation art. They are well known for covering up well-known environmental and public areas for specific amounts of time so that people may appreciate that area when it is uncovered. They also place objects in areas for specific amounts of time. Below is their work called Surrounded Islands, Miami, FL (1980-1983). In this work, they wrapped 11 island in pink flamingo fabric. Here is a link to their personal website: http://www.christojeanneclaude.net

Taizo Yamamoto (present)

Taizo Yamamoto is a Bachelor of Architecture and has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree as well. He received his education from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has also received a Piano Performer's Degree from the Royal Conservatory of Toronto. This multi-talented artist also creates extremely detailed drawings. Most recently, Yamamoto's shopping cart drawings have been displayed at the Pendulum Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. From my own interpretation of Yamamoto's shopping cart drawings, I believe he is trying to send a political message about consumerism in contemporary, developed societies. Here is a link to his personal website: http://www.taizoyamamoto.com

Here is one of the twenty shopping cart drawings that Yamamoto has completed: