Florian Nicolle is an artist working out of France. Most of his work is collage work, and I am not 100% sure if it is digital or traditionally created. There is a lot of organic tetures to his work, but some of the lines have that clean, digital feel to them. Regardless of what medium they were created in, they look amazing. Take a look at the images below, and then head on over to his homepage to see more.
Category: artist profiles
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Artist Profiles: Vinicius Quesada
An artist working out of São Paulo, Brasil, Vinicius Quesada. It looks as though a majority of his work is wheat pasting prints in a collage like manner. The work is similar to what other urban artists such as Shepard Fairey create, although Vinicius has a more humorous and often painterly way of creating his works. The “Suncity” piece, (shown first) is intense, and as he stated on his Flickr, “this one took like forever”.
Check out the rest of his work here: Vinicius Quesada @ Flickr
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Artist Profiles: Melissa Cooke
Melissa Cooke is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin in fine arts. She creates what can only be referred to as graphite paintings, as she states ” I create my work by applying thin layers of powdered graphite to paper with a dry brush. Illusion dissolves into brushwork and the honesty of the material.” The end result is a hyper realistic drawing, all of which tend to be around 50″ x 38″ in size. The effect is amazing. She has three series of works on her site, “You Know Me Better”, “Vacuum”, and “Masked”. There is also a couple of videos on the site that show her working process in a way.
See the rest of her work here: Melissacooke.com
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Artist Profiles: Rory Kurtz
Rory Kurtz is an artist working out of Chicago, Illinois. He is mainly self-taught and works with pencil, inks, and digital paint. He has also begun to add some paintings he is making out of acrylic paints to his blog. Wether it is digitally or traditionally, I think Rory has an amazing style and look forward to seeing more work. He had a piece in the “A Cry for Help” group exhibition at Thinkspace Gallery a while back, one that he also breaks down in his blog as well.
Check out his full gallery here: Rory Kurtz Illustration
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Artist Profiles: Jenny Morgan
A fine artist working out of New York, Jenny Morgan got her MFA at the School of Visual Arts NY. She primarily paints oils on canvas, and focuses on portrait work. The figures in the paintings are not only rendered with great skill, but you can see that each portrait has something uniquely altered. It might be a color that is invading a portion of the face or arms, or areas that look as though they have either been sanded down, or not rendered past the underpainting. It’s an amazing effect, and what I find most interesting is that her portraits are filled with emotion and life, and these alterations do not cover up, or take over the work. Jenny has a few paintings with no alterations done to them, and they are just as powerful as the others. About her work Jenny states: “I manipulate the figure to expose the individual’s idiosyncrasies and create a physiological portrait. Working with people from my own life as subject matter allows me to hone in on specifics of their character and present their personalities as I experience them.”
See more of Jenny Morgan’s work on her homepage: JennyMorganart.com
She also has a book available: New Territory by Jenny Morgan
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Profiles: Tran Nguyen
I’ve talked about her work a little bit before, but thought it was time for a formal introduction. Tran Nguyen is an artist currently working on completing a BFA in Illustration at SCAD. She mainly works with light layers acrylic wash, some colored pencils added to the mix, all masterfully applied to a sheet of Rives BFK paper. If you have never felt Rives paper, it has this amazing texture to it and it perfect for an artist as talented as Tran. She recently had a sol show entitled “Nurturing The Uneased Soul” at the Thinkspace Gallery, and they even did an interview with her to go along with the show. Tran is definatley an artist to keep an eye on, so make sure after you are done looking at these images to head over to her blog and subscribe to her RSS if you like what you see.
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Profiles: Sam Wolfe Connelly
Sam Wolfe Connelly is an artist out of Savannah, and went to the Savannah College of Art and Design. It looks like Sam works in all sorts of media, digital, watercolors, graphite, acrylics and more. His works are filled with animals, and often very surreal. Take a look at these select images and then head on over to his site for more.
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Artist Profiles: Jurgen Grewe
An artist out of Berlin, Jurgen was trained at the Visual Arts at Fachhochschule Hannover and has had work in exhibitions in Germany, Russia and the United States. He works primarily in oils, and while he does create some single figure images, most of his work is this image collage layout. Figures that might be recognizable from movies such as Carrie, The Wolfman and even Hellboy, as well as figures that look plucked right out documentary photos or someones personal collection. Each one of the paintings forces you to question what the story is, what is going on in these images and how do the figure relate. I like the contrast that some of the paintings have with areas being highly rendered, while other areas look loosely sketched as seen in the third image.
Head on over and see the rest of his work: Jurgen Grewe Homepage
