Tumblr Monday 106 - Tumblr Artist
Paul X. Johnson | on Tumblr (UK) - Courteeners (2013)
The work of London based artist Paul X. Johnson is simply amazing. Inspired by classic 40′s movies and vintage illustrations, his precise lines and muted colors capture beatifully the natural expression of emotions. Great thanks to artforadults for introducing us Paul X. Johnson’s magnificent illustrations, and please visit artist’s website or follow his Tumblr for more work!
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Tumblr Monday 105 - Tumblr Artist
Jason Laferrera | on Tumblr (USA)
The textures and contours of old maps are fascinating, even the tattered and stained parts. Artist Jason Laferrera digitally manipulates cartographic materials to create fauna and fowl in poses reminiscent of field guides from a similarly early era of publication. These idealized depictions created from recycled imagery question our relationship with the boundaries we draw to divide the natural world. The patterns of forests and shores often become an animal’s feathers or fur, while the rings of topography often trace out wings or antlers. Many thanks to actegratuit for this Monday for having introduced us Jason Laferrera!
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Tumblr Monday 104 - Tumblr Artist
Olivier Ratsi | on Tumblr (France) - Huang Shan
Confronting the real world and the digital dream, Olivier Ratsi’s work is mainly based upon representations of world’s perception and the experience of reality. By deconstructing the reality into the mobile and the motionless fragmentation, artist disturbs our vision and invite us to discover and to take place in a new dimension that once belongs to him. Many thanks to Seriously Hazardous Art Gallery SHAG for this Tumblr Monday to introduce us this brilliant artist!
2nd PARIS ART CONNECTÉ EXHIBITION | {TRANS}FORMED VISIONS > Thursday May 16, join us for an exceptional meetup to discover 5 artists connected on Tumblr! > RSVP Meetup
[more Olivier Ratsi | Tumblr Monday with SHAG]
H. Craig Hanna (b.1967, USA)
Born in 1967 in Cleveland USA, H. Craig Hanna is a New York painter from Fine Arts Syracuse University, Fine Arts School of Visual Arts, New York Academy of Figurative Art. He exhibited his work since age of 29 year and has received an immediate recognition. In 1998, an entire floor reserved for him at Bergdorf Goodman, following exhibitions in London, Hong Kong and Malta where he spent a period of his life. H. Craig Hanna currently lives and works in London and is represented in Paris by Laurence Esnol Gallery who shows his works permanently and exclusivity worldwide. Our thanks to Laurence Esnol Gallery for the warm reception and this beautiful discovery.
in exhibition @ Laurence Esnol Gallery | on Tumblr
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Tumblr Monday 102 - Tumblr Artist
Gregory Kaoua | on Tumblr (France) - Black Bangkok
After working for years with the great masters in fashion images, it is naturally for Kaoua Gregory to turn to the photography to develop his own expression. Avid for the techniques and the immobile storytelling, Gregory Kaoua leads us to his own world where dream and reality confront peacefully in one’s field of vision. Please follow artist’s Tumblr or contact SHAG for more works. Many thanks to Seriously Hazardous Art Gallery SHAG for introducing us this talented photographer!
2nd PARIS ART CONNECTÉ EXHIBITION | {TRANS}FORMED VISIONS > Save your May 16, 2013 for an exceptional meetup with Artchipel & SHAG to discover the artists connected on Tumblr! > RSVP Meetup
[more Gregory Kaoua | Tumblr Monday with SHAG]
Elizaveta Porodina (Russia/Germany)
Moscow born, Munich based fashion and fine art photographer Elizaveta Porodina has the talent that could not leave us indifferent. Colorful and modern, her work is a manifestation of her cultural roots. Elizaveta Porodina’s most “russian” traits are her tendency to melancholy and sadness, but above all, her obsession with shiny and glittery things (cf. interview with artist by This Is So Contemporary). Great thanks to showslow for this Tumblr Monday to introduce us this talented photographer!
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Tumblr Monday 100 - Tumblr Artist
Phédia Mazuc | on Tumblr (France) - The soul of objects
Sit. This is your space. Make yourself comfortable in the frame. The work of French artist Phédia Mazuc takes action on several dimensions, layers, sublayers, as it speaks at once of absence and presence. It is familiar to us remotely, the memory that is persistent, insistent, obsessive. Please follow artist’s Tumblr or contact SHAG for more works. Many thanks to Seriously Hazardous Art Gallery SHAG for the 100st Tumblr Monday sharing!
2nd PARIS ART CONNECTÉ EXHIBITION | {TRANS}FORMED VISIONS > Save your May 16, 2013 for an exceptional meetup with Artchipel & SHAG to discover the artists connected on Tumblr!
[more Phédia Mazuc | Tumblr Monday with SHAG]
Tumblr Monday 99 - Tumblr Artist
Paula Braconnot | on Tumblr (b.1981, Brazil/France) - Male / Female Timenaut
The story about the artist Paula Braconnot begins with an alchemical formula: VITRIOL. More than a mere acid, VITRIOL represents an inner evolution, a permanent transformation, a wandering metamorphosis. The images created by Paula Braconnot are born from this internal exploration, at the crossroads between the material and invisible realms. The artist composes virtual collages using remnants of bygone times: alchemical engravings, anatomical diagrams, and nineteenth century depictions of flora and fauna. This confrontation gives birth to characters adulterated by mechanisms, hybrid beings and organs cultivated amongst foliage. Eyes blossom over hands; hearts and flowers open as doors of perception. Braconnot’s visions are glimpses of a perilous path. As in Alice in Wonderland, where a little girl is confronted by her fears and hopes, the artist portrays visions that would normally be confined to dreams. The collages act as conduits, allowing precise themes such as Time, the cold beauty of Death and irrepressible Life to come to the fore - Themes that have been enthusiastically received during exhibitions in Europe (London & Paris) and Brazil (Sao Paulo) (text by Brice Kowalsky) Please follow artist’s Tumblr or visit her online shop for more works.
Great thanks to Diane Drubay, founder of Buzzeum and curator of creamoftheirskin, for this Tumblr Monday to introduce us Paula Braconnot’s work. Hope you will enjoy as much as we do!
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Tumblr Monday 98 - Tumblr Artist
Teagan White | on Tumblr (USA) - Great Horned Owl / Honey & Sorrow
Teagan White is a freelance designer & illustrator from Chicago, currently living and working in St Paul, Minnesota, where she recently earned her BFA in Illustration from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Her body of work encompasses intricate renderings of flora and fauna, playful depictions of cute anthropomorphic critters, illustrative typography, and everything in between. The subtleties of nature and reciprocal relationships between organisms are her primary inspirations, and her work typically incorporates flat, limited color, decorative arrangements of organic forms, and obsessive detail. Please visit artist’s website and Behance, or follow her on Tumblr for more work. Great thanks to septagonstudios for this Tumblr Monday to introduce us Tumblr artist Teagan White!
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Ludwick Hernandez (France) - Black drawings, personnel research
Graduated from Fine Arts in Toulon and Clermont Ferrand, Ludwick Hernandez discovered independent comics in 2000 and dashes into this new world. With some friends, he creates in the South of France a local “factory” named “Moulinsart” to produce micro editions of books, fanzines and comics. During this psychedelic experience will be born his love for the German expressionism, evolving between the contemporary drawing, the literature, the rock n roll, the pop art, the press drawing, the street art… He finally found his style and is known thanks to his comic “Bessam et Mucho”. Spotted by Monsieur Poulet, he designed visuals for different medias, such as T-shirts for Reporters Sans Frontières and Mamie Nova, exhibition “Les grandes causes” in Museum of the Decorative arts of Paris, etc. Ludwick works regularly on musical and cultural projects, giving free to his unbridled line and prolific style. Great thanks to illustrators agent Valerie Oualid for this Tumblr Monday to introduce us Ludwick!
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Laurence Demaison (b.1965, France) - Saute d’humeur (2004)
The photographic work of Laurence Demaison is exclusively constituted by self-portraits from 1993 to 2009. Since 2010 she occasionally uses mannequins or dolls. The used techniques - shot, development, print - are analogicals and realized by the author. No particular manipulation intervenes beyond the shot (except chemical inversion of films for some series). Many thanks to fer1972 for this Tumblr Monday for introducing us Demaison’s work!
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Rene Almanza (b.1979, Mexico)
Perdida de la inocencia del inconciente colectivo. Oleo sobre tela, 1,20x1,80 m
M1-17. Tinta china sobre papel, 76x106 cm
Originally from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Rene Almanza graduated from the School of Visual Arts of the UAN. He began working during his adolescence as a visual artist; first in graphic novels, underground fanzines, the newspapers of Monterey, and later in printed media mainly designing signs. In 2000 he joined the editorial/political cartoon department of the group Reforma, illustrating various articles. After Reforma, he joined the Shinseken Editorial group of Tokyo, working in a illustrated project which collected folk tales from around the world. Currently he is working with the publishing house Sirpus (Barcelona, Spain), illustrating a series of bilingual books on the history of the Zapotec communities of Oaxaca. Almanza has received several international recognitions for his beautifully frantic line work that exudes urgency, passion, and agitation. Many thanks to nearlya for this Tumblr Monday to introduce us Rene Almanza!
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François Réau (b.1978, France)
Scientist. Huile sur toile, 27x42 cm (2012)
Untitled (Dark shade pt. I). Huile brou de noix, encore, pierre noire et crayon sur papier, 65x50 cm (2012)
François Réau is a 35 year old French artist born in Niort who now lives and works in Paris. His work is all about humanity as it was when it was just born, when it had just come out of a chaotic and primordial universe; and it lets the spectators’ look infiltrate what are almost geological layers of the paint. Frontiers, borders, demarcations, nothing is ever completely clear-cut, for a minimal desire for figuration always remains with the artist. (by Jean-Daniel Mohier 2011) Many thanks to the Seriously Hazardous Art Gallery SHAG to introduce François Réau’s work !
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Tommaso Ottieri (b.1971, Italy)
Scala. Olio e cera su tavola, 140x200 cm (2010)
Fenice. Olio e cera su tavola, 100x160 cm (2010)
A moving road, a rising palace, an abandon square or tower… Tommaso Ottieri paints the same scene for years, as a camera on a tripod locked. All together, the multiple transformations that occurs daily, becomes a moving virtual bodies, an explosion, a show. Great thanks to devidsketchbook for introducing us this Monday Tommaso Ottieri!
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Tumblr Monday 93 - Tumblr Artist
Derek Tokar | on Tumblr (Canada)
Derek Torak is a Toronto based graphic designer & musician with a formal background in photography. “How else would I remember the things I’ve seen?” Derek chooses to archive and share his views with people on his Tumblr. Many thanks to ycphotographs for this Tumblr Monday to introduce us Derek Torak!
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