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Adhemas Batista /content/blank/gallery/batista_large.png /content/blank/artists/Adhemas_Batista.jpg Adhemas Batista Los Angeles-based Adhemas Batista likes to say that his job is selling colors. Bright orange and black. Magenta and pink. Purple and baby blue. He's brought his colorful and distinctive illustration and graphic design style to advertising agencies, design studios and interactive shops around the world. Born in Sao Paulo City, Brazil, Adhemas Batista is a self-taught digital artist who has slowly built a globally known name for himself doing great work for Absolut, Pepsi, Nike, Toyota, Coca- Cola and many others. Another thing Adhemas likes to say is that if you're an artist you need to have a big creative monster inside yourself trying to blow your mind and paint the world with your creativity. /content/blank/video/echo-hereweare.jpg
Aesthetic Apparatus /content/blank/gallery/apparatus_big.png /content/blank/artists/Aesthetic_Apparatus.jpg Aesthetic Apparatus Midwesterners Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski of Aesthetic Apparatus have carved a niche as designers of iconic band posters for the likes of the Meat Puppets, Art Chantry, Frank Black, The Ames Brothers and about a zillion more. Over the years, their limited edition, screen-printed concert posters and art prints have created a certain aura about their work. Their growing reputation has landed them gigs for Blue Q, Stella Artois, Harper Collins, American Cancer Society and Criterion Collection, and their work has been featured in Print, Step Into Design, Communication Arts, Creative Review, and Rolling Stone (among others), as well as in the recent Chronicle Books rock art Bible, "The Art of Modern Rock."
Brett Amory /content/blank/gallery/brett_amory_big.png /content/blank/artists/Brett_Amory.jpg Brett Amory A central theme to much of the Oakland-based Brett Amory's work has been "waiting." In waiting there is sense of possibility, openness, lack of direction and even identity. Amory became fascinated with people at train stations, bus stops or in grocery store lines. "Most people, when they're waiting, they're not in the present...They're in multiple places." Brett Amory received his BFA from the Academy of Fine Art in San Francisco. After getting hooked on drawing and starting in animation, he switched to fine art and painting out of a love of color. In the past year he's had solo shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, New York and San Jose.
Dave Kinsey /content/blank/gallery/kinsey_big.png /content/blank/artists/Dave_Kinsey.jpg Dave Kinsey Los Angeles-based Kinsey is a powerhouse of the graffiti-turned-fine-art set. His paintings and designs tend to find analogies for human culture and conflict in the natural and animal worlds, and the resulting images are both beautiful and unsettling. Coming of age just before the explosion of computer-based design and being trained as a fine artist in painting and drawing, it's perhaps natural that Kinsey's art has its roots in a painterly, "by hand" esthetic that shines through even in works where the computer plays an important role. Whether he's painting on canvas or designing sneakers, a leather jacket or motorcycle helmet, everything Kinsey does has a vibrant, kinetic, multi-layered look that is his alone.
David Bray /content/blank/gallery/david_bray_big.png /content/blank/artists/David_Bray.jpg David Bray Fantasy and imagination have marked Kent-born artist David Bray from the start. As a child he drew images of space travel that depicted himself and his friends exploring distant planets. Later his imagination turned frequently toward an idealized female form. Inspired by the pre-Raphaelites and by 60's artists such as Allen Jones and Eric Stanton, Bray creates diaphanous, fragile drawings that explore emotion, longing, utopia and the world of fantasy. His commercial work has landed him projects for Harvey Nichols, H&M, Puma, Virgin, Sony and others, and his work has been published in Elle, Flaunt, The Sunday Times, Time Out and many more places.
Morning Breath /content/blank/gallery/morning-breath_big.png /content/blank/artists/Doug_Cunningham_-_Jason_Noto.jpg Doug Cunningham & Jason Noto New York-based Doug Cunningham and Jason Noto created Morning Breath in the 1990's after working together at Think Skateboards in San Francisco. At Think they realized that Jason's graphic design training matched up well with Doug's skills as an illustrator...and off they went. Their work often features a brightly colored pastiche of elements like the advertisements one finds in old comic books and catalogues Ð risquŽ and whimsical. In recent years they've developed a large cult following for their work across various platforms, and have created stand-out album covers for Queens of the Stone Age, Maximum Balloon, Them Crooked Vultures, Foo Fighters and many others.
Eduardo Recife /content/blank/gallery/recife_big.png /content/blank/artists/Eduardo_Recife.jpg Eduardo Recife Asked if working as an artist makes him see the world differently, Brazil-born illustrator/ designer/typographer Eduardo Recife answers that really it's the opposite: Seeing the world differently has made it possible for him to work as an artist. From an early age, Eduardo found himself compelled to create art as a means of filtering information and putting his thoughts and feelings on paper. His work has a strange paradoxical quality -- refined and joyful vintage imagery may appear in a sad or hollow-feeling composition. A primitive recklessness is held in check by a life-affirming harmony and beauty. In the past few years he's worked for HBO, Burton and Nike and his work has been shown all over the world -- in Japan, Australia, Denmark, Brazil and London.
Fernando Chamarelli /content/blank/gallery/chamarelli_big.png /content/blank/artists/Fernando_Chamarelli.jpg Fernando Chamarelli In his graphic designs, illustrations and paintings, Fernando Chamarelli mixes multiple esthetic influences -- cartoons, caricatures, tattoos and street art -- with multiple cultures. He finds inspiration in Maori, Celtic, Egyptian and Chinese art, as well as in pre-Columbian cultures. But the biggest influence is his homeland. Growing up in central Brazil, he was surrounded by rivers, waterfalls and birds -- the sort of organic shapes, surprising color palettes and elements one finds in his work. He is inspired by Brazilian music, fauna, flora, folklore and football. He re-designed the Brazil team's crest for Umbro, a project made all the more fun for him due to his love of the sport.
Good Wives and Warriors /content/blank/gallery/good-wives_big.png /content/blank/artists/Good_Wives_and_Warriors.jpg Good Wives and Warriors Good Wives and Warriors is a design duo made up of former Glasgow School of Art classmates Becky Bolton and Louis Chappell and best known for making labor-intensive, imaginative, intricate and large-scale wall drawings with titles such as "Giant Squids Attacking the Earth" and "Mountain Punk and a Spiritual Gang Bang." The pair work so seamlessly together that on some projects when it's all over they themselves can't tell who painted what. The past few years have taken them to shows across Europe, the U.S., South America and Australia, landed their work in the pages of several design magazines and books as well as gigs with MTV, adidas, Urban Outfitters and Swatch. Their future dream jobs would be as small as book cover design and as large as painting the wall outside London's Tate Gallery.
Jeremy Fish /content/blank/gallery/fish_big.png /content/blank/artists/Jeremy_Fish.jpg Jeremy Fish Having grown up in Albany New York, Jeremy Fish was raised on a diet of Dr. Seuss, Richard Scarry, the Brothers Grimm and skateboarding. Since receiving his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in the '90's, he has found a stylistic niche while becoming one of the most prolific and hard-working fine artists and commercial illustrators on the West Coast. Whether he's working on T-shirts, skateboards, album colors, sneakers or good old paper, with each explosion of drawings and designs he explores new aspects of a unique story-driven world.
Ludovica Gioscia /content/blank/gallery/gioscia_big.png /content/blank/artists/Ludovica_Gioscia.jpg Ludovica Gioscia Rome-born, London-based Ludovica Gioscia's collages are bright and complex, whimsical and provocative. They mix colors, patterns, media, politics and ideas. She finds inspiration in the excesses of fashion and hedonism, and her reactions are both insightful and fun to look at. Her "Soft Power" series, for instance, features glamour shots of women whose faces have been pasted over with make--up smears and beauty products. Her "Paninaro" solo show was a critical look at an 80's Milan-based trend which she associates with the birth of a certain hedonistic consumerism she finds both troubling and inspirational. In 2010 her work was exhibited in Barcelona, London, Geneva, Pittsburgh and New York.
Marcus Jansen /content/blank/gallery/marcus_jansen_big.png /content/blank/artists/Marcus_Jansen.jpg Marcus Jansen For Bronx-born artist Marcus Jansen, accidents are just a matter of perception. He lets them happen in his paintings because they tap into something the conscious mind leaves out. He has an analogous view of graffiti. Returning from service with the U.S. army in Saudi Arabia in 1990, Jansen looked at his surroundings differently -- and his work evolved dramatically. He felt that most paintings of urban landscapes left out the dirt, graffiti and feeling of the place. His "urban expressionism" seeks to capture the reality of urban landscapes. The New Britain Museum of American Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art have all purchased works by Jansen.
Mario Wagner /content/blank/gallery/wagner_big.png /content/blank/artists/Mario_Wagner.jpg Mario Wagner To transport his vision from the mental to the physical plane of existence, Mario Wagner depends on his finesse with scissors and glue. Inspired by pop art and the colors of planet Earth, his work combines collage with vintage print media to create mysterious, retro worlds of cinematic intrigue and sci-fi fantasy. He is fascinated by the era when the future Space Age was imminent and the possibilities of technology seemed limitless. The storytelling aspect in his work challenges the viewer to ask both where the journey begins and where it will end. His illustrations and artwork have been featured in ESQUIRE, VANITY FAIR, PLAYBOY and THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE. He lives in San Francisco.
Robert Mars /content/blank/gallery/mars_big.png /content/blank/artists/Robert_Mars.jpg Robert Mars Robert Mars is a former skateboarder, the design director of streetwear label Zoo York, and a visual artist who -- for the past ten years -- has been documenting in his fine art work parts of Americana that are quickly fading. His unique spirit and energy reflects a love for the freedom and DIY ethic that infuses the skating world at its best, a connection to contemporary trends, a poetic sensibility and a fine-grained knowledge of a distinct facet of American history. His work is exhibited with the likes of Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, and has been shown worldwide including galleries in Munich, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, Australia, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Atlanta, Aspen, and Naples.
Sam Flores /content/blank/gallery/flores_big.png /content/blank/artists/Sam_Flores.jpg Sam Flores In each of his paintings, drawings and designs, Sam Flores takes a deep stroll through human fears and passions - a landscape where beauty is lost and found -- and then creates dark, honest portraits. His color palette tends toward the earth tones of his native New Mexico, sometimes crossed with the magic and more vibrant colors of Asia -- where he's been a frequent traveler for ten years -- and the psychedelic associated with his adopted city of San Francisco.
Zach Freeman /content/blank/gallery/freeman_big.png /content/blank/artists/Zac_Freeman.jpg Zach Freeman Texan Zac Freeman's work has been compared favorably to that of Chuck Close and Bernard Pras, with some people saying they have never been more astounded by the work of a living artist. He achieves complex color and shading effects and remarkably realistic human portraits through the arrangement of three-dimensional found objects such as Lego, colored pins, dice, buttons, bottle caps and those square plastic bread-bag ties with the date stamp on them. His work has been recognized internationally in the past few years with shows in London, Brussels, Chicago, Amsterdam, New York and Miami.

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