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If your familiarity with the modern tattoo world goes beyond reality television and the ever-present-over-saturated Ed Hardy gear, you may have heard of New York Adorned’s resident Englishman, Thomas Hooper. Hooper’s tattoos are renown for his beautifully stippled ornamental mandalas, an illustrative style that echos both eastern and western traditions, inspiration from masonic and alchemist symbology and a respect for geometry that would make M.C. Escher smile. Most surprising is his painting blog featuring daily abstract mixed media paintings whose color and chaos stand in contrast to his meticulous tattoo work.
If you aren’t ready for permanent body art, he put some great designs on tee-shirts over at Shirts & Destroy and customizable phone cases for Case Mate. Also make sure to check out his store for original paintings and giclee prints.
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Ashley Wood is an Australian illustrator that has worked in comics, video games, movies, and tv. His style mixes oil painting and digital artwork. It is recognizable for having muted colors and a very painterly appearance in comparison to the graphic style of most comic artists. Given the nature of his work, a lot of his pieces are fanciful in nature. Robots, war, and girls. Check out his blog, and his toy store for some really cool work. Warning, some of his portfolio images are NSFW.
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Aidan Hughes is a British commercial artist that specializes in high contrast illustrations. He has been active in the art world for over 30 years now and his style is highly recognizable by thick black lines. He is probably most famous for his album covers for the band KMFDM. A lot of Hughes work uses a black and white color scheme or black and white with accent colors. His primary influence has been stated as Cold War era Russian propaganda. As such, most of his work deals with the idea of violence, oppression, and revolt. For more information, check out his blog.
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Shepard Fairey has a new gallery exhibition opening May 1 at Deitch Projects in NY. With this new show we are presented with a great deal of new art prints for purchase on May 1. Above, you can see the May Day Flag offset print available at a random time May 1. The print measures 18″x24″ and is a signed and numbered edition of 600 for $35. On May 1st, get yourself over to obeygiant.com and pound your refresh button to snag one.
After the break you can check out the 6 new portrait prints that will be available for purchase at the show opening. Remaining stock will be sold on obeygiant.com at a later date. The portraits are some of the best he’s done in a while and among them we are presented with a second Muhammad Ali and Debbie Harry rendition by the artist. The Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry prints will be signed by the musicians as well as Shepard Fairey.
If you’re lucky enough to live in or near NYC and can make it to this opening, we’d love to have photos of the event. Get in touch with us if you can provide coverage of the event.
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Artist Alexis Mackenzie uses the imagery of biology and botany to create beautiful, carefully cut collages. The images carry strong typographical weight, moving between fun phrasing and cryptic messages. A current exhibit of her work is being held in Chicago at Ebersmoore. In addition, she has assembled collages for the book On Wonderland and Waste by Sandy Florian.
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Eric Fortune is an illustrator with fantastic style and motion in his work. His portfolio has a nice selection of client work but a larger selection of personal artwork. Fortune’s blog also offers some behind the scenes stuff worth keeping up on.
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Thomas Bendel is an architect from Berlin who captivated me with his strong, clean lines and use of earthy concrete and wood in his designs. Everything he has created has a physical strength to the look of the design in shape and materials used. Bendel creates spaces that look like they come from the future yet at the same time could have existed forever. One project that specifically caught my eye was Haus Bold featured above.
His portfolio site doesn’t have an English version but it is fairly easy to navigate. Visit his Projekte section to view galleries of his work.
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Kevin Cyr is an artist that has been popping up a lot lately with paintings of old graffiti-laden vans and other industrial vehicles. In my opinion, his sterile compositions are best when viewed in a large group as seen in his recent show at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco. I’ll definitely be keeping my eye on his website for updates and I’m looking forward to seeing the direction he takes his next body of work. It appears that he may be getting into conceptual sculpture, but time will tell.
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Jonathan Bergeron (or “Johnny Crap” as otherwise known) has a show opening at Gallery 1988 Los Angeles on April 27th, 2010. This show runs through May 14th and features new paintings and drawings by the artist.
In other related news, Mr. Bergeron has created a 3-color silkscreen art print (image after the break). The print is only an edition of 20, signed and numbered, printed on vintage card stock, and measures 16″x15″. If you are interested in purchasing one, you can order at Gigposters.com Classifieds.
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“Stuntkid” Jason Levesque creates some pretty fantastic illustrations. He has recently released three new art prints. You can buy the “Loose Lips” series individually for $40 each or all three for $100. These prints are 12″x12″ editions of 100, signed and numbered digital prints on heavy watercolor art paper. Stuntkid has also released a book of his artwork which you can purchase here. All prints included after the break.
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