A digital artist working out of Japan, YDK Morimoe has an surreal style that is all her own. It’s not often that digital art has the ability to really capture my attention, but the work shown here are undeniably captivating.
Check out more: Tieba.baidu.com
The year just started and Apricot Mantle has already released a killer nee drawing. Once again Apricot shows that colored pencils can be just as dynamic as oils or acrylics. This new drawing is entitled “The Hanged Man” and featured a tarot card frame, custom as in all the frames that Apricot makes. Wicked Halo, a great art site to keep an eye on as well, recently did an interview with Apricot that you should check out (Here).
Add Apricot on Facebook and see more work: Apricot Mantle on Facebook
Hope everyone had a safe and fun New Years weekend. I hope the next year is amazing, and I am working on some big things for the Creep Machine hoping to make this the best year yet for the site. Remember the Trevor Brown contest is still going on, and not that many people have entered yet so the odds of winning are pretty good right now.
One of the sites I make sure to check out daily is, Artistaday.com. They post some really amazing work by well known, and up and coming artists as well. The most recent one to catch my eye was the work of Margarita Georgiadis, and artist working out of Australia. Her paintings have a similar palette, and while the figures are rendered to a certain point, the works have a very ghostly feel to them. Many of the paintings look as though the image was taken with a camera and a slow shutter. Take a look at the preview images here, and then head over to her homepage for more work.
Genevive Zacconi’s solo show “Dysphoria” opened at the Last Rites Gallery on December 10th, and will be up until January 13th if you havent seen it yet. We were able to get some photos, courtesy of Steve Prue, of the opening night, and a little writeup from artist Buddy Nestor.
Genevive Zacconi is best known for her masterful work with oils. Her images fuse equal parts pain and exquisite beauty, from a female perspective. The evident shock and fervor from her previous work is subdued in her latest show “Dysphoria†at Last Rites Gallery, NY.
Genevive’s new works show the hand of a maturing style, both in tone and paint handling. In this collection, the darkest parts of the message have become more subtle yet more powerful. She uses the beauty she can conjure from a distance to lure the viewer in to expose the true meaning of each work. With a candy coated agony, she leads the viewer through women’s struggles with beauty and the psychotically intense ride that humans go through to find love and hold onto it with dagger like claws until it rips apart.
This collection is her most impressive to date and should be viewed up close. The show closes on January 13th, 2011. Get out there and take in the madness. — Buddy Nestor
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1xRUN has a new limited edition print up for the week. “The Creeps” is by Ron Zakrin and is 15.75″ x 20″, signed and numbered in an edition of either 30, or fewer depending on how many sell.
Get it here: 1xRUN.com
The next few days I’m going to take a break from posts to spend time with family. Hope everyone has a fun, and safe holiday break. In the spirit of the holidays, Jason Edmiston has just released a limited edition print of “The Grinch”. The print is 1″ x 19″, signed and numbered in an edition of 100. I would love to see Jason create a Scrooge painting as well, maybe next year perhaps?
Get it here: Jason Edmiston Shop
Virtu Art Gallery has just released a new limited edition print from Trevor Brown. The print is 17.6″ x 20.7″ on varnished canvas, signed and numbered in an edition of 40. Each print also comes with a certificate of authenticity. To celebrate the holidays, and the upcoming new year, Virtu Gallery has graciously donated one print to be given to a lucky reader of the Creep Machine.
Here are the rules: In order to win one of these fine prints, all you have to do is post the title of a movie that contains a girl in a graveyard. There are more movies than you can imagine that qualify, so post your pick in the comments section and one will be chosen. One entry per person, and any duplicate movies will be disregarded. So if a movie has already been chosen, the earliest entry of that movie will be kept, none others. Not too tricky, but remember this is a free print so it will take some work. We’ll have this contest go on for a couple of weeks since it is the holidays.
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED, WILL ANNOUNCE WINNER SHORTLY
If you can’t wait to score one of these prints and don’t want to enter this very easy contest, head on over to the Virtu Gallery Online Shop.
