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ARTISTS
Ron English - Born in Dallas, Texas in 1966. Post-Pop
Surrealist Ron English paints, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes
modern culture and its mainstream visual iconography on canvas, in
song, and directly onto hundreds of pirated billboards. English exists
spiritually somewhere between a cartoon Abbie Hoffman and a grown-up,
real-life Bart Simpson, delivering a steady stream of customized imagery
laden with strong sociopolitical undertones, adolescent boy humor,
subversive media savvy, and Dali-meets-Disney technique. Dedicated
to finding the sublime in the everyday and breaking the momentum of
the didactic approach to art and life, English offers up an alternative
universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted, and there's
always room for a little good-natured fun. Acumen Entertainment is
the exclusive publisher of Mr. English's poster and art print collection.
There are currently over 47 of the artist's most iconic images available
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Van Arno - Van Arno was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he attended a Christian Science school from kindergarten through high school. He was accepted at Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, where he studied under Carol Caroompas and Lita Albquerque, supporting himself working late nights as a bouncer in nightclubs and adult video arcades. As a young illustrator his work appeared on album covers, video game box art, and nightclub posters around the city. By the late eighties, he began producing large 'cut-out' paintings blending cartoon imagery with portraits of cultural and historical icons. These early 'cut-out' paintings used black lines and luridly cartoon color to depict characters ranging from John F. Kennedy to Herman Goering to Othello. His guerrilla installation of a 12 foot tall Angel 'cut-out' could be seen hovering over Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood Christmas 1992.
In the early 90s he became fascinated with the calendar of the ancient Maya, and traveled to Yucatan to see the ruins at Chichen Itza, Coba and Tulum. At the same time, he began to create heroic figurative works featuring religious and folk heroes from Christian, Mayan and American history (St. Francis, John Barrymore, Joan of Arc, Nat Turner, Nellie Bly) in cell vinyl on masonite. This work was shown extensively in Los Angeles, Seattle, Santa Fe, Nashville and New York. He also captured attention with his series of Olive Oyl paintings, documenting her life as a waterfront floozy.
He has frequently been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine since 1999. In the spring of 2000, several of his pieces were included in a national survey of Lowbrow painters at the Hollywood Art and Culture Center in Florida along with Mark Ryden, Chaz Bojorquez, Kenny Scharf, Anthony Ausgang and others. Van was pleased to speak at the opening to detail the history of 'lowbrow' painting and its place in art history. In the fall of 2000, he painted a 36-foot billboard for the East Side Artcrawl entitled 'Abolitionist Goat War' which received local news coverage for its indictment of pimp culture.
In 2004, Van was honored to have a solo show in Hamburg, Germany, which was well covered in the local press because of growing interest in the JUXTAPOZheit movement, and the Presidential election, 3 days earlier.
More recently, he has been exclusively painting in oil on canvas and wood panels. He continues to push the human figure into more and more extreme postures, causing him to name his painting style Uber-Mannerism. His ongoing fascination with the imagery of Religion and its use of the heroic figure found new relevance recently, as American 'values' were re-examined at home and abroad. Although he has been exploring non-narrative themes recently, his focus remains on the figure and it's power to engage the viewer.
Visit his website at: www.vanarno.com for more information.
Shawn Barber- Shawn's signature brushwork has appeared in advertising, music, magazines, children's books, corporate, entertainment and newspapers. Particularly recognized for his portrait work, he has been honored by American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, RSVP, and The Artist's Magazine among others. Shawn's first published art book, 'Tattooed Portraits' was published by 9mm Books in March of 2006.
Articles and reviews of his work have appeared in ArtNews, Juxtapoz Magazine, the Artist's Magazine, International Tattoo Magazine, Garage Magazine, Cool'eh magazine and SF Weekly. His work has been featured in Taschen Books' Illustration Now (2005) and 1000 Best Web Portfolios (2005), Harper Collins' The Big Book of Illustration Ideas (2004) and Mark Murphy's Dialogue Book (2004).
Shawn's paintings have been exhibited in diverse solo and group venues including: The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA; The Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany; CPop Gallery, Detroit, MI; Outer Edge Studio, Monterey, CA; The Society of Illustrators, NY, NY; White Walls, San Francisco, CA; Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY; The Selby Gallery, Ringling, Sarasota, FL. His work is in collections worldwide, including those of Mat Hoffman, Van Morrison, Christian Slater and Rolling Stone magazine's founder Jan Wenner.
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Anthony Ausgang - Anthony Ausgang was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1959 to a Dutch mother and Welsh father. The family moved to Houston Texas in the early 1960s, a particularly difficult time for an immigrant family to parse American culture. Nevertheless, Ausgang's father made brave attempts to assimilate by attending custom car shows and demolition derbies. Ausgang eventually encountered Ed Roth and before long had a shoebox full of Rat Finks, a small plastic figurine of a noxious rodent that had somehow become the embodiment of Hot Rod and Custom Car Culture. Ausgang's mother continued the European traditions by dragging her son to endless operas, symphonies and art museums. This combination of High Art and Low Art was to prove a fertile cultural mulch for Ausgang's artistic inclinations. After a short stint studying art at The University Of Texas in Austin, Ausgang succumbed to the myth of California and moved to Los Angeles where he began classes at The Otis Art Institute. Disappointed to find out that the curriculum there didn't include target practice, admiring cars or watching surf films, Ausgang dropped out to start showing his artwork to as many galleries as would tolerate his frequent visits. Finally accepted by the infamous Zero One Gallery, a combination of after hours nightclub, gallery and crashpad, he had his first official sale, to a drug dealer. At his solo show later that year Ausgang sold to a more diverse and socially acceptable crew as collectors and critics began to take notice. At the Zero One Ausgang met Robert Williams, who had been one of the main forces at Roth Studios in the 1960's and at this time was the most successful practitioner of the type of art that would later be called Low Brow. As the "official" artworld began to accept Ausgang's work so did the commercial artworld and he began making record covers and posters and working as a consultant on computer generated animation. In 1993 Ausgang was included in the Laguna Beach Art Museum's seminal exhibit "Kustom Kulture" which investigated art influenced by gearhead car culture. In 2003 Ausgang's paintings could be seen in Morning Wood, a primer of Post Graf art; in 2004 his work graced the pages of contemporary art survey Pop Surrealism and in 2005 Weirdo Deluxe explained his art to the unenlightened. Ausgang draws influence from as many outside channels as possible, preferring the toy contents of grocery store gumball machines over the latest exhibit at the Whitney. Opinionated but informed, he is able to see the beauty in both a Rembrandt and a rat rod. This variety of interest has led him to design his artwork on the computer but complete it on the easel, the perfect combination of new technology and traditional media.
Ausgang now shows regularly in Amsterdam, Holland and Bologna, Italy. Commercial clients include the Boredoms (Warner) in Japan and Apollo 440 (Sony) in England. Collectors include Nicholas Cage, David Arquette and Perry Farrell.
Visit his website at: www.ausgangart.com for more information.
Amanda Lynn - Amanda Lynn, who has been painting all her life, grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania where she studied with well-known artist, Robin Grass. Grass guided her through basic acrylic painting techniques, which Amanda continues to use in her artwork today. Most importantly, he inspired her to open up her imagination. When she was eighteen, Amanda moved to San Francisco to attend the Academy of Art, which provided the opportunity to work with another of her inspirations - Kazu Sano. Sano taught Amanda figure painting and pushed her to unleash the creativity that would further refine her fanciful imagery. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree of Fine Art in 2003.
Amanda was creating a mural in an alley in San Francisco when George Mead, who owns and operates one of the largest mural businesses in San Francisco - W.E.T Studios, took an interest in her artwork. Through Mead, Amanda's career as a muralist was set into motion. He introduced her to Prairie Prince, who taught her how to airbrush while working on a set for Bette Midler's musical, Kiss My Brass.
Prince introduced Amanda to another division of his business, Underground Colors, where she met Pete the Painter -- a multifaceted artist specializing in master metal fabrication, sculpture restoration, and custom motorcycle painting. After meeting Pete, Amanda knew that she had found her niche at Underground Colors, where she has worked for the past four years. Under Pete's guidance, she is constantly expanding her knowledge of art and discovering an endless variety of painting techniques. Some of Amanda's projects at Underground Colors include the restoration of Claus Oldenberg sculptures, painting a large-scale fiberglass heart for the "Hearts of San Francisco" project, creating sets for a variety of shows, and painting custom motorcycles.
Amanda also enjoys creating her own artwork, which predominantly uses the free figure in an array of seductive, fantasy settings. Her favorite group of artists is the Seventh Letter artist collective, which is a graffiti-based group that takes the idea of "graffiti-as-art" to another level. You can often find Amanda adding her girly imagery to their large-scale mural productions. Of being a participant in the group, Amanda says she is grateful and hopes to continue painting alongside of them because, "it is the best feeling in the world to look back at what we were as artists, what we are becoming, and definitely what we will continue to be to the world of art."
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Norm - Springing from a multi-faceted blend of talent and hard work, Norm has created a new, visually-stimulating impact on the art world today. His "beginning" drawing and painting skills were pushed into effect while being brought up through the ranks of graffiti, with the help of the famous AWR/MSK family. Always striving for bigger and better, Norm used graffiti to put his name on the low-brow art map. Once achieving acclaim, Norm began painting and sculpting for art shows and events, creating his artwork on a smaller-scale and more refined level. He adds his unique flavor to already-existing advertising imagery, as well as constructing intricate miniatures of ghetto city buildings and scenes. His patience and drive keep him moving, learning, and progressing as an artist.
Recently, Norm began training under Grime and the rest of the crew at Skull and Sword as a tattoo apprentice. Once again, he has seized the opportunity to utilize the skills that he learned from Grime and the gang and apply them to enhance his flourishing artistic career. Norm's charisma and character resonates well with everyone he meets, and he retains much respect from the professionals in the art world, as well as his growing fan base. Norm, inspiring many in his journey as a graffiti artist, tattoo artist and fine artist, has brought a fresh outlook on an ever-changing art scene.
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Jota Leal - Jota Leal was born in a humble little town in eastern Venezuela, thirty years ago. He began drawing and painting at a very young age but never studied fine art. He attempted to sit in class as a child of six but ran away after being forced to paint plastic fruit and empty bottles. Even at that age, Leal knew what he wanted to do; he wanted to paint people. He wanted to paint their faces. Leal was the second of three brothers, each possessing their own unique talent. Their parents worked in the oil fields.
One of Leal’s first memories is of drawing some lines for his amazed parents, as a baby. His subsequent birthday and Christmas gifts were all limited to pencils, crayons, and drawing materials.
Having been surrounded by engineers and those with 'real' jobs, Leal went on to study electrical engineering and graduated with honors. No one in his family knows how he accomplished this, as he was so obsessed with drawing and painting. It didn’t take long for his circuits to become lines, numbers to become colors, and brushes replaced the sweep of physics theories. Now Leal paints all the time. He blames his obsession on his parents. "They made me believe it was something I was good at. I have not stopped painting since."
In 2001 Leal traveled to Spain and lived there, immersing himself in the history and technique of art. He then returned to his hometown in Venezuela, where he received the Caricaturist of the Year Award for 2003.
Leal’s style results in a synergy of remarkable painting skill and a probing sense of the subject’s soul, and often tweaked with a remarkable sense of humor. Leal works with pencil on paper, acrylic on board, and acrylic on canvas to achieve his amazing images. He paints the inner soul of his subjects, and manifests this as their outer persona. He is an interpreter of the subconscious, translating with his pencils and brushes.
His amazing portraits of Johnny Depp, Jimi Hendrix, John Malkovitch, Al Pacino as Scarface, Babe Ruth, and others are classics of their kind. Most recently Jota Leal was honored with a photo spread of his paintings in the July 2008 issue of Heavy Metal magazine, and he also has a book in the works.
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Ocean Clark - Ocean Clark has a formal education in art, which he says was worthless compared to the education he got as a street vending artist in New Orleans. As Ocean tells:
"I painted live in Pirates Alley almost every single day. I'd go downtown with a pile of blank canvases at sunrise, and by noon I'd have a dozen paintings finished. Usually, every painting was sold before I'd go home for the day. A few sold for as little as a beer. More often than not, though, I'd go home with pockets stuffed full of cash. However, the knowledge gained each day was far more valuable than money. When you have thousands of drunk people stopping and talking about the paintings as you're working on them... you really get an incredible wealth of honest critique, which is the best way to improve your craft.
I've probably painted around 9,000 original paintings. All of them sold except for a few hundred that I lost in Hurricane Katrina. Even with the 50,000 or so hours that I have into my painting... I still feel like I'm a complete amateur... every day I learn something new. I would say I finished 2,000 bad portraits before I painted a single really good one... but that's the fun of art... it's all play even when your work day has no end."
My painting style blossomed while painting on the streets of New Orleans. The best way to sell your paintings on the street is to put on a good show... because when you're painting up a storm people can't help but walk over to watch you...and once you've got their attention, they often end up buying something. I paint with both hands... it's a subconscious thing... I lock an image into my head... then just smear the paint around and let it make itself... the left hand is scumbling the background together... while the right hand is fine tuning the important details.. I feel blessed in life... I basically get to finger paint like a preschooler all day... and make a decent living while doing it."
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Phil Fung, an American born son of Chinese-Jamaican parents,
is a pop art painter who ties himself inextricably to the tides of popular culture. The war in Iraq, technological discovery, the latest movies and songs are all sources from which he draws imagery in his work.
As such when the presidential campaign began last year, he felt compelled to make a painting that could sum up what was to be the focus of the campaign. He chose to paint Senator Obama for what he had grown to represent; a new beginning, a dream of a noble politician, and the shifting definition of what a great leader could be or look like.
After he completed the painting, he found out about Moveon.org’s Manifest Hope art competition, which he entered wanting to participate in the historic election in the best way he knew how--through his art. The 1200 artists who entered the competition were asked to submit a piece around the themes of Hope, Progress, Change, Patriotism, Unity, or about Barack Obama himself.
When Fung received the call that he was the winning finalist for the competition, he packed up his Obama painting and shipped it to Denver to coincide with the Democratic National Convention, where it was placed in a gallery on display.
News spread of Fung’s winning painting, and shortly after the exhibit, Jamaica’s major newspaper, The Gleaner, did a story on his work. Later, his painting and picture were on the front page of The Miami Herald “Tropical Life” section, accompanied with a story about artists and the election. In addition, he granted an interview to the Caribbean Today that will appear in the October 2008 issue, which is distributed in the Caribbean, the US, England, and Canada. A Trinidadian writer plans to include Fung in his next book about first generation born citizens of America.
Boosted by the success of his painting, Fung hopes to continue creating beautiful art and inspiring others to dream big.
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