Aryz is a painter and graffiti artist from Barcelona. He creates stunning and intricately detailed works using mostly spray paint and paint rollers.
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Selections from the 2011 International Photography Awards
The International Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for professional, non-professional, and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today.
James Jirat Patradoon: Hyper-Masculine Mythologies
James Jirat Patradoon is an artist & illustrator based in Sydney, Australia. I’ve been totally geeking out on his illustrations as they strike so many chords from my younger days of binging on comics, punk rock and 80’s cult films.
Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo – Pop Grotesque
Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo is a graphic designer & filmmaker based in Granada, Spain. In discovering his art I was immediately drawn to his eerie, brightly-colored renderings of icons from popular culture.
Capriole by Iris van Herpen
Iris van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer whose creations combine hand-worked materials with the effects of digital technology. Her latest collection is entitled Capriole and dazzled audiences at the recent Paris Haute Couture Show for Fall-Winter 2011-12.
Sakiroo Choi, Illustrator
Sakiroo Choi is an illustrator based in Seoul, South Korea. If you put Akira, The Boondocks, and Yellow Submarine in a blender, the resulting concoction might be something similar, but even so his work has a madcap sensibility that is entirely his own.
Justin Carty: Visual Artist
Justin Carty is a painter, designer and digital animator born and raised in New York City. I discovered his art via an exhibition at Rob’s Shoppe in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A month later, on the eve of the release party for a music video he had produced, I sat with him to discuss his various artistic passions.
Maurizio Anzeri: Embroidered Photo-Sculptures
Maurizio Anzerio is an Italian-born artist known for his enthralling “photo-sculptures,” vintage photos culled from flea markets that are then embroidered to dazzling effect.
Philip Lumbang & Ernesto Yerena: “Dead Relatives”
Black Book Gallery’s current exhibition is entitled “Dead Relatives,” a Dia De Los Muertos-inspired venture by two artists from Southern California, Phil Lumbang and Ernesto Yerena.
Reality Sandwich: William Etundi Interview
Reality Sandwich recently featured a compelling interview with William Etundi, who rose to prominence in the early 2000’s as an NYC-based social activist and party promoter. Etundi now serves as creative director of Artists Wanted, an organization devoted to creating opportunities for artists all around the world.
Tasha Kusama: Prismatic Visions
Tasha Kusama is an artist based in San Francisco, CA. Her art is colorful and vibrant but also vaguely unsettling, its subjects traversing a crystalline wilderness rife with uncertainty and sublime personal transformation.
Robin Hammond: The Price of Gold
Robin Hammond’s The price of gold is a photo essay on the plight of gold miners in Zimbabwe, who risk it all in pursuit of a better life for themselves and their families.
