Austin-based artist Jonathan Marshall creates large paintings and drawings that rely heavily on wit, working through color and design. These graphic images explore nature and the landscape through illustrative imagery, showing destruction through absurdity and humor. His success began shortly after his graduation from University of Texas at Austin (2003), and, in 2005 alone, Marshall received the best-in-show award for the Texas Biennial and a[…..]
Yoshitomo Nara is one of Japan’s most well-known artists. His cartoon-like paintings, drawings and sculptures are deceptively simple, depicting children in a variety of activities who wear expressions of contempt. Nara’s influences are derived from eastern and western pop culture, and the artist attended the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts in Japan and Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in Germany. Now, Nara’s imagery and illustrations can be[…..]
Illustrators and fine artists James Jean and Kenichi Hoshine have created an artist collaboration entitled Polite Winter. Through this project these artists have brought to life a graphic narrative throughout a series of paintings and collages. James Jean has been an illustrator for clients like the NY Times, Fables, ESPN, and Nike, and has created his own online store called Process/Recess. Kenichi Hoshine has shown[…..]
Tattooed Portraits are a recent series of paintings by Shawn Barber. Each portrait is of a fellow artist and their tattoos. Barber currently lives and works in San Francisco and teaches at California College of Art, and the Academy of Art University. Tattooed Portraits will be published as an art book with 9mm Books, and will be exhibited for the first time at the Shooting[…..]
Death From Below is the title of a new show by Toronto based artist Nicholas Di Genova. Fredericks & Freiser in NYC will be exhibiting 23 new ink paintings on mylar through Oct. 14th. The artist creates hybrid creatures that seem to rely heavily on a language of graphics and graffiti. Nicholas Di Genova graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design and you[…..]
