March 14, 2011 by the modern artist

The Paintings of Brian M. Viveros

Celebrated fetish artist Brian M. Viveros is internationally embraced for his erotic paintings of doe-eyed beauties with cigarettes dangling seductively from their lips and has also recently been utilizing the medium of film to capture the dark and evocative debris that radiates from his mind. His paintings are a drunken mix of oil, airbrush, acrylic, and ink.

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Brian’s Official Website – http://www.brianmviveros.com/

March 14, 2011 by the modern artist

The Book Carvings of Brian Dettmer

Brian Dettmer, who is also known as ‘The Book Surgeon’ uses knives, tweezers and surgical tools to carve old dictionaries and encyclopedias into amazing works of art.

Born in 1974, in Chicago, Brian Dettmer studied art at Colombia College, where he focused on painting. The artist started exploring the relationship between text, language and art during his time working in a signage store. He began producing paintings based on sign language, Braille and Morse Code, then moved on to layered works that involved pasting newspaper and book pages to a canvas.

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Brian Dettmer’s Official Website – http://briandettmer.com/

August 1, 2010 by the modern artist

The Currency Art of Christopher Wilde

Christopher Wilde is a collagist who creates with currency. He painstakingly cuts various shapes out of paper money from around the world to form collages with economic and political undertones and overlays. Wilde bases a lot of his works on found images that he develops into his own compositions, which he will lay down on museum board before skillfully applying bits of currency so that they abut in order to keep to the ideal of an even surface. He then seals it with wax.

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http://artichokeyinkpress.com/phons/archive.php

May 12, 2010 by the modern artist

The Godfather of Stencil Graffiti: Blek Le Rat

Blek le Rat was born Xavier Prou in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in 1952. He is considered the godfather of stencil graffiti art. He studied painting and architecture. He began his artwork in Paris in 1981. Since then he has had a great influence on today’s graffiti and “guerilla art” movements, his main motivation being social consciousness and the desire to bring art to the people. British graffiti artist Banksy has acknowledged Blek’s influence saying “every time I think I’ve painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well, only twenty years earlier.”