Month: May 2012
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Oleg Denisenko (update)
The wonderfully idiosyncratic graphics of Oleg Denisenko have a feeling of arcane instructional diagrams from some otherworldly past. Denisenko is a Ukrainian printmaker, painter, calligrapher and sculptor. His intricately rendered images of figures, horses and fantastical mechanisms always seem connected to the past, and rich with potential meaning, but unfettered in imagination. Since I originally…
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Shelby Keefe
Shelby Keefe is another artist whose work I recently encountered at the Wayne Plein Air Festival just outside of Philadelphia. Keefe is based in Milwaukee, where she maintains a studio and exhibition space. She works both on location and from her own reference photos for studio paintings. She has a loose, blocky style, quick and…
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Shelly Wan
Shelly Wan is an illustrator, concept artist and gallery artist who works both in digital and traditional media. She is currently an artist for Pixar and also does work for Magic: The Gathering as well as comic covers and book covers. Originally from Guang Zhou, China, where she studied at the Guang Zhou Academy of…
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Nick Patten
Room interiors, though a relatively common subject, have never really been treated as a separate genre like still life, landscapes or even “cityscapes”. Though they have a long history, and some wonderful painters are noted for them, such as Vermeer, De Hooch or Tarbell, room interiors seem to be most often treated as backdrops for…
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Jim Madsen
Jim Madsen is an illustrator based in Provo, Utah who works in children’s books, advertising and educational software. Madsen has the kind delightfully springy and energetic style I usually associate with animation art, along with a sure sense of color and a clear faculty for narrative illustration. I was particularly taken with his beautiful illustrations…
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Paul Bachem
Though I had encountered his work on the web previously and filed it away for a future post, I had the pleasure of speaking briefly with New York based artist Paul Bachem yesterday at the 2012 Wayne Plein Air Festival. Bachem has a crisp style, with lots of attention to edges and a physically textural…