“Tete Morte”

Ryohei Hase’s words of wisdom “My strongest area is realistic fantasy art…trying to express feelings which difficult to show in words.“

These disturbingly beautiful illustrations of feral animal-headed people were made by the freakishly talented Tokyo-based Illustrator/Designer, Ryohei Hase. His portfolio comprises of very dark and ‘polished’ (photoshoped) artworks, each with meticulous structure hidden inside what are seemingly chaotic images that aren’t random by any means. Most of his works are fantasy art, which he says is his strongest area of artistry. Although his work does have a fantasy art feel to it, I would say he brings his art to fruition with a bit more style than most fantasy artists, plus he has a few very nice commercial pieces weaved into his gallery.

Left: “Bound” Right: “Melancholy”

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Make sure to check out his deviantART page for high resolution images. more…

Left - Beach Bum, Right - Tats, 8″ by 10 ” - Acrylic on wood with glitter

Left - Kearney Girls, 11″ by 14 ” - Acrylic on wood with glitter
Right - Sun Spots, 9″ by 13 ” - Acrylic on wood with glitter

Danielle Lamberti is a young Painter/Illustrator and was born in the Italian-American neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn NY. Her paintings could be said to be Superflat (the postmodern art movement founded by Takashi Murakami) styles and juxtapositions. Like most Superflat artists, Danielle’s art takes a critical look at consumerism and the environment while remaining playful with bright colors, rainbows and imagery that could be taken from a child’s book. Her work is inspired from her all girl catholic school education to life in the 21st century. The artist states, “I wanted to tell a story of what we see without even thinking about the problems of global warming. By asking “How is this affecting us? Good or bad on an unconscious level?” Everything from her colorful palette to her sad-eyed characters has meaning within each individual piece. This is art that certainly just doesn’t “look pretty.

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For further information or to view more of her unique works visit: Danielle Lamberti

Self Portrait - 2003. 70 x 60 x 12 cm - silicone, pigment, hair, fabric - Self Portrait is a fully three-dimensional,
but spatially compressed, wall sculpture. It appears distortion-free only when viewed directly from the front.

Evan Perry alongside Aerial #2 - 2006, 269 x 152 x 33 cm - silicone, pigment, hair, aluminum

Evan Penny’s eccentric portraiture transforms the figurative tradition into contemporary observations on the nature of representation. His lifelike sculptures and photographs tantalize us with vivid allusions to reality, while emphatically affirming their fictional demeanor. When faced with one of Penny’s incredible people, we may not believe what we see. - Joe Houston

Working in a similar ‘hyper-realistic’ sculptural style to Ron Mueck,Canadian artist Evan Penny creates some very realistic molded and dye-painted silicone figures, implanting real hair one strand at a time. His figures are mostly head-and-shoulders busts at twice life size or larger. Penny’s technique for these is very similar to artists such as Mueck and other artists who make props for movies; constructing molds for the silicone by modeling clay by hand. These are meticulously-detailed through the painstaking creation of body imperfections such as scars, blemishes - these offer Penny an exploration into human corporeality and fallibility. Interestingly, Penny combines facial characteristics from a variety of sources to create composite portraits. Accompanying photographs (as in the L. Faux series) emphasize the difference between the visual information we believe to be authentic and what actually exists in space. more…

For over forty years, Spanish commercial artist Gervasio Gallardo has been been enchanting viewers all over the globe with his fantastic works of fantasy and surrealism. His profound illustrative sensibilities and fine art techniques have rightly given him world wide recognition from both the fine art and illustration communities alike. Pictured above, are two examples from a rare collection of noncommercial work, published and seen here. However, Gallardo became known through his fantastic cover illustrations for fantasy fiction, in particularly the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series. more…

City View , 2003 - Light, Aluminum, Shadow - Permanent display at the 2nd floor of Nanba Parks Tower, Osaka, Japan. Commissioned by Nankai Railways Inc. Description: The numbers scattered on the wall, lit from the right, cast a silhouette of a woman.

Kumi Yamashita’s an extremely fascinating artist from Japan. She works mostly on installation pieces that’re constructed by using a host of obscure materials to trace figures in the most unlikely ways. In it, she questions all our expectations, by challenging our perceptions of predictable relationships between solids and their shadows. For example, on the wall, illuminated by a single light source, we can see an arrangement of numbered 3-d blocks. These appear to be scattered haphazardly on the wall, however, this is certainly not the case. Yamashita has carefully arranged these so that each casts a particular shadow which, when taken with all the other precisely placed objects, amazingly adds up to the illusion of a lifelike form of the human body. Incredible stuff. For more info about her art, visit Yamashita’s site.

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• Matt Bilfield

A major figure in the pop art movement, Roy Lichtenstein drew attention to Pop painting in the 1960s with his distinctive renderings of comic books and advertisements. Now, with pop-arts regain of popularity, it comes as no surprise that Lictenstein’s work is now inspiring countless contemporary art pieces, including Matt Bilfield’s outstanding and innovative work entitled: “Peggy”. Matt quotes..

The work above, “peggy,” is the most recent project of this collection. this piece was meticulously constructed over the course of five months. It is comprised of 2788 hand cut, sanded, and painted dowels that when put together form a modern interpretation of a painting by artist Roy Lichtenstein entitled, “m-maybe.” It measures seven feet wide by three feet tall. Commissionable variations of this work can be constructed upon request.

Front View - Peggy

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