HOW TO SEE THE WORLD American artist George Redhawk – a.k.a. DarkAngelØne – creates eerily beautiful gifs even though he’s legally blind. With help from computer software, the designer utilizes the art of gif-making to show others how he sees the world as a man who suddenly lost his sight. “It’s an artistic expression of […]
DO YOU WANT BESTIALITY? Scott G. Brooks takes social, psychological, and political issues and injects them with a dark sense of humor. Anatomical distortions separate the figures from the photographic ideal, which gives him the freedom to create his own distorted reality. Sex, nudity, incest, bestiality, social, political and psychological dramas play out on canvas […]
UNKNOWABLE PLACES AND PERSONS Art director and designer Kevin Weir uses historical black and white photographs forgotten to time as the basis for his quirky—and slightly disturbing—animated GIFs. He makes use of photographs he finds in the Library of Congress online archive, and is deeply drawn to what he calls “unknowable places and persons,” images […]
AN UNSETTLING FACE TO FACE Lu Cong was born in Shanghai, China. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 11. Between 2003 and 2007, Lu Cong was recognized by a number of art publications as a notable emerging artist. Since then, he has developed a distinctive look that many has regarded as […]
THE ATMOSPHERE AROUND THE MODEL At an early age, Stephen Bauman followed his older brother into the world of graffitti. During the years he spent studying – and later teaching – at The Florence Academy of Art, his instructors taught him to look at the human figure, and to see beauty in its proportions. To […]
A THEATRICAL REALITY Michael Foulkrod challenges his skills and perspective constantly, enjoying the clarity that can be found while painting from life. He spends lengthy hours on the floor looking up at his subjects, a technique that gives his work the trademark monumental theatricality that has become his own version of reality television. While Michael […]
