May 21st, 2009
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Girl So Fine• 2007, oil on wood, 10cm x 15cm

Girl So Fine• 2007, oil on wood, 10cm x 15cm

Raunchy, suggestive illustrations with strange pseudo-human characters leave viewers unnerved, but at the same time, engaged in a conversation of questions. What is going on and why?? Melissa Stekbauer‘s works can place the viewer in a vulnerable, almost submissive, state, allowing her characters some authority. Her works present interesting narratives, especially because they are paired with a softer painting technique, which can feel more inviting and friendly than the actual content of the work. Maybe that’s why it’s “seductive”?

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May 21st, 2009
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I have to start out by saying that A Perfect Circle’s “Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums”  is one of my favorite songs. This animation is an excellent interpretation of the trance the song puts the listener into as well as the false sense of security and comfort we often get from the media.

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May 20th, 2009
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North Portland #4

North Portland #4

 

Matthew Scott graduated with a BFA in Photography from the Academy of Art. In landscape and in portraiture, his camera sheds light on the “paradoxical tensions existing just under the surface of everyday life.” He overlaps two Americas–the urban and the rural–as they compete in his photographs. He effortlessly gives the viewer “Yin and Yang, light and dark, compassion and sarcasm”–a struggle of dualities.

 

His clients include (but certainly are not limited to) Anticon, GQ, World Golf Tour, and XLR8R Magazine.

 

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May 20th, 2009
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Jonathan Zawada does, in simple terms, just about everything! He’s been on both ends of production, as an art director and as a designer for 2D design, but has also dabbled with fashion design, and has a few tshirts out for Japanese label 20 Million Fragments and Urban Outfitters.

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May 19th, 2009
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Illustrator Lehel Kovacs creates charmingly simple illustrations & text that look sort of like wood block prints. New works just added to his portfolio!

 

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May 19th, 2009
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Our friends over at Evil Monito  recently reviewed our last “Movie Time” at Space 15Twenty. If you haven’t made it out yet- be sure to come tomorrow night, 8pm sharp! We’ll be playing “Who the (ahem) is Jackson Pollock,” and will also be a fun time. Click HERE to read Caleb’s full review over at EM.

May 19th, 2009
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NoLoveLost, aka Gareth Rice, is an artist, designer, and illustrator based out of New Zealand. His work has been used and featured in print advertising, editorial design, and campaigns for K-Swiss, Oakley, and Redken. His graphics are energetic, and I like how his illustrations organically meld with the photographs they are incorporated with.  The above artwork is part of a new series intended to “give human based subjects a flawed final resolve, rather than a perfect one, which is so common in our industry.” Whether his illustrations are for a shoe company or for himself, you’ll find yourself doing a double take, just to grasp everything going on.

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May 19th, 2009
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Interiority (2007), 35.75 x 47.75

Interiority (2007), 35.75 x 47.75

Artist Brian Cooper‘s paintings explore the idea of landscape and space through abstract representation. His work features surreal situations that appear to explode from their ‘real’ counterparts. Check out the way he uses depth by contrasting the ” tension between flat and far” to create eerie and fantastical environments. I love how, as the viewer, I get sucked into the padded rooms and sharp angles of his creative, dali-esque compositions. The structures and strange shapes become more enticing through Cooper’s use of rich colors. There’s a cool tangible quality to the visual textures of the abstract surfaces, especially in Bulge, posted after the jump.

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