Mark Demsteader is probably one of Britain’s best-selling figurative painters. In 1997 he became a founder member of the Neomodern Art Group founded by Guy Denning. He has held an annual solo exhibition with Panter & Hall in the West End of London since 2004. He is now represented in Daikanyama, Japan by Art Obsession.
Next exhibitions are: Life the gallery, Amsterdam. may 11- 1 june
The Avenue restaurant, St James`s London, 4 June – 13 July
Bunkamura, shibuya, Tokyo Japan. May 29 -10 June
Valerie Chiang is a 19 years old photographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina and Los Angeles. She is a film production major at the University of Southern California. Last two years she has exhibited different series worldwide.
Hervé Schnebelen is a French graphic designer who started in October 2012 a great challenging project: create a graphic experiment every day during 365 days.
This young, inventive and passionated graphic designer deserves your support so I invite you to follow his creative work and share it with your friends !
Michael Carson is an American artist who was born in 1972 in Minneapolis, MN. After Art and Design he started working as a graphic artist and found his calling and in 2001, started painting full time. Influenced by the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec, Norman Rockwell, Malcolm Liepke, and Milt Kobayashi, Michael Carson is primarily a figurative Artist who likes to tell a story. Michael Carson is a bold new talent emerging on the art scene represented by Jones & Terwilliger Galleries.
Ganaëlle Maury is a French artist who’s work is focused on drawing beautiful and sophisticated doodles. This is a very spontaneous and lose work, inspired by nature and body and where the unconscious can express any kind of feeling. Ganaëlle Maury has developed a personnal style, delicate and balanced.
Marine Coutroutsios is a French artist based in Sydney. She studied visual arts, worked as a sculptor and as an interior designer before to start freelancing. Marine Coutroutsios creates eye-catching site-specific installations : window displays, commercials, temporary events, and more. She directed a series of short films (see below) where she does paper cuts in some welcoming cafes in Sydney.
Shawn Huckins is an American painter living in Denver, Colorado. He studied architecture and film before focusing on painting with inspiration from 18th century American neoclassical painters to 20th century pop artists. His work is developed like a contemporary discourse on American culture. He is known for The Paint Chip Series featuring several large canvases painted to resemble various color swatches and incorporating some mundane image drawn from the everyday.
Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English graphic designer and photographer, he died 18 April 2013. His name is not very well known but his work for rock bands since the late sixties will remain among the most popular. He was commissionned by bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Genesis, Europe, Peter Gabriel, Yes, the Alan Parsons Project, 10cc, Bad Company, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Cranberries, Yourcodenameis:milo, The Mars Volta, Muse or Biffy Clyro… A graphic work that was very important at a time people still bought records.
As a photographer and inspired by surrealist painter René Magritte, he said that some of his works beg the question of is it real or not? He was a teenage friend of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and in 1968 along with Aubrey Powell he founded the graphic art group Hipgnosis, and between them they designed many famous single and album covers like the famous “Dark side of the moon”. Storm Thorgerson is considered the best album designer of all time.
Kelli Anderson is an artist/designer from New-York City. Her drawings, photographs, paper cuts, prints, codes, and the variety of designed things she creates are awesome. She also teaches art history at Pratt every summer. Kelli Anderson has created a very nice series of paper types for a recent talk at Typo San Francisco… These white on white experiments cut, shaped and folded out of paper only are fantastic…
Felice Varini is a Swiss artist living in Paris and known since 1979 for his geometric perspectives and anamorphic paintings covering buildings, streets and walls, using projector-stencil techniques. The paintings are characterized by one vantage point from which the viewer can see the complete painting, usually a simple geometric shape such as circle, square, line painted with very few colors. From other view points the viewer will see ‘broken’ fragmented shapes.
