Thursday, September 15, 2011

Map #1

Tiffany Bozic

Grew up on a farm in Arkansas and was always interested with the intricacies of nature.  Her work incorporates highly saturated pigments of acrylics on maple wood panels.  Bozic is said to be inspired by John James Audubon and Ernst Haeckel.  Theses selections are deeply surreal and stunning...

 
Silent Dredge, 2008
Under My Skin, 2010

The Best Intentions, 2005

For more of Tiffany Bozic's work and a biography, visit here.

Kehinde Wiley

An LA born and New York based visual artist, Wiley has cemented himself in the long history of portraiture painting.  He takes traditional notions and blurs them within contemporary modes of representation.  Socio-political histories of oppression are at the forefront of Wiley's heroic images of urban black youth...

Ice T, 2005

Triple Portrait of Charles I, 2007

Three Graces, 2005

To find more of Wiley's Portraits, check this out.

Keith Haring

Was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading Pennsylvania.  Haring developed a passion for drawing at a very young age, acquiring cartoon skills from his father and picking up on the pop culture aesthetics of Dr. Seuss and Walt Disney.  During a very brief but rich career, Haring stamped himself as one of the most influential artists of the late twentieth century.  Here are a few iconic images..


Knokke, 1987

Untitled, 1988

The Last Rainforest, 1989

Haring's work is expansive, this is only a taste of his world.






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