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Roberto Bernadi

Luke Tonge — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:11:47 +0000

Roberto Bernadi is a modern master of oil painting photorealism.

EN MASSE

Jessica — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:12:17 +0000

Montreal-based EN MASSE is a collaborative drawing initiative, who create highly spontaneous, large-scale murals and public installations. They have been described as “an ongoing exercise in irreverent, improvised collaborative drawing — a boundary-blurring cocktail of high and lowbrow culture, pop imagery fragmented like shattered glass in a spontaneous, multi-genre, black-on-white collision.”

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Jamie Brown

Cookie — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:05:11 +0000

I’m surprised he’s not been featured previously, but Jamie Brown has a really rich and varied body of work. Very nice.

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Mark Whalen

Jessica — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:36:49 +0000

I want this book and so will you. Here is a sneak peek at some beautiful paintings to be featured in painter Mark Whalen‘s first book: Human Development, to be released this September by ZERO+ Publishing. It will be printed in a limited edition run of 1000 with 90 colored plates. I have a sneaking suspicion that these won’t last long, so get yours while you still can.

Here is a bit about the book:

“MARK WHALEN: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT examines the world of artist Mark Whalen (AKA Kill Pixie), who explores the human condition through his stunning body of work. Using a tightly controlled painting technique, Whalen expresses satirical social narratives through universal situations. Strange hooded characters caught in the throes of ambiguous action, shimmering trees, geometric patterns, architectural anomalies and intricate textural beads of color collide in kaleidoscopic intensity, at once immaculately composed and careening out of control. Whalen uses sly oppositions to reflect life’s puzzling duality; evoking dark humor through luminous color, chaos through controlled detail, the sublime through the specific. Whalen employs a seductive synesthesia that sheds new light on humanity: which, like his works, is both erotic and oppressive, vibrant and reclusive, beautiful and uncanny.”

To coincide with Mark’s book release he will be having a show at Merry Karnowsky Gallery in LA from September 3 – October 1, 2011. If you are in the LA area (I envy you) the opening reception is Saturday, September 10, 8-11pm. Here is a little preview video for the show. I can’t wait to see the video in it’s entirety! Cheers!

Anomaly and Observers from Thomas McMahan on Vimeo.

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Pimrico

Tom Vining — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:11:35 +0000

Pimrico is the Creative Portfolio of Japanese Illustrator + Graphic Designer Rieko Vining, currently based in London. A nice mix of hand drawings and graphic work.

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Maciej Kuciara

Gui — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:17:37 +0000

I’m such a sucker for concept art. I love it love it love it. (true story)

Maciej Kuciara’s work is stunning.

Mad props for working on the Uncharted game (another fav, but whatever)

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Brian Donnelly (NSFW?)

Gui — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:58:27 +0000

Brian Donnelly = Awesome.

That is all.

oh.. NSFW??

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SatOne

staynice — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:59:56 +0000

I’m a big fan of the work from SatOne for years now and again I’m impressed by this big mural he did recently in Warsaw.

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Madre

Gui — Wed, 25 May 2011 09:42:56 +0000

Lovely new bit of filming from Andrew Telling, shooting in southern Italy. It’s street art again – but I do love the shots and general mood of the film.

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Remed

staynice — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:21:12 +0000

There is a lot of great new artwork on the website of Remed since we featured him on FFF back in 2008.

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