James Jean was educated at the School of Visual Arts in New York and earned his BFA in 2001. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Process Recess 2 has finally shipped and is out in stores now! If your local retailer doesn’t carry the book, you can order
it directly from Adhouse Books.
A native Angelina, Panni Malek was born in 1984 in sunny West Hollywood. She has a taste for fine fashion, lingerie and antique lace.
Van Arno was born in Chattanooga, Tennesse and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he attended a Christian Science school from kindergarten through high school.
Parskid was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest where he draws inspiration from his childhood, the weather and rusty surfaces. He experiments with paint, plush and digital mediums. His work has been exhibited in many cities in the United States including LA and NYC and abroad in Australia, Taiwan, Spain and the UK. His work has been published in the following magazines: King Brown, Art Prostitute, Cool’eh, Novum, Beautiful/Decay, Day in the Lyfe, and Dirty Soup. As well as these published books: Canceled Flight, War of Monstars, Pictoplasma 2 and Monstaah!. When he’s not curled up in his dark underground lair he enjoys dripping marsh ink, spraying rusto paint and playing by the tracks. [Via Gawker]
GS: What is your favorite recipe?
NC: Fowl Ka-Pow! as nicknamed by my friends (otherwise known as 5 spice chicken)
So simple and delicious, it’s a pretty fail safe recipe of a whole chicken marinated in soy sauce, chinese 5 spice powder, garlic and olive oil and then baked in the oven for around an hour, served with rice and greens… It’s not quite ‘Iron Chef’ material but it’s still a winner none the less! just the thought is making me chew my pen! [Via Gelaskins Blog]
Dr Lakra is a tattoo artist living and working near Mexico City. In his parallel activities here, however, Dr Lakra transfers his draughtsmanship onto the idealised figures in 50’s Mexican magazines. Pin-up girls, wrestlers, beauties and cuties are tattooed and ‘enhanced’ in ink with bats, demons, spiders and the faces of pouting vixens. Like pertinent graffiti, the relative innocence of another era is politicised and the images are infused with a relish for the diabolical. Beautification or social identification, the works are a carnival of the grotesque. Kitschy erotica, ancient ritual, and hallucinogenic visions are fused in a collage of ideologies. [Via Saatchi Gallery]
More Dr. Lakra work.
2H (born 1983 in Texas) is a prolific contemporary American artist. 2H works in both fine arts media, such as painting; Street art, such graffiti, wheatpasting, stencils; as well as digital and commercial media. He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture while using his own unique style coined 2Hism, then turns them into large Paintings, Installations, or occasionally marketable commercial goods such as prints,clothing etc while trying to maintain his independent focus from selling out to large global corporate entities. [Via Wikipedia]
Jason Levesque, aka Stuntkid
Stella is a painter and drawer living in New York City.
Despite her background in industrial design and toy design, she has recently turned to a more personal and expressive kind of creating, showing her works at galleries from late 2005.
When she’s not drawing or painting, she likes to eat while thinking of more food to eat; search for the perfect cupcake; eat ice cream at the park; and just walk around her most favorite city in the world. [Via her site]
Yasushi Ebihara’s McCauley Caulkin paintings area creepy.
Up now at GR2 is a group art show called, ‘GEISAI Artists at Giant Robot’. The show was put together by legendary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and Giant Robot founder and owner, Eric Nakamura. Murakami is famously known for his collaboration with Louis Vuitton, creating the multicolor monogram and cherry blossom designs, and most recently creating the album artwork for Kanye West’s new album, Graduation.
Together they’ve picked a hand-full of award winning artists from the GEISAI art show to display their work at GR2. The artists involved are Yasushi Ebihara, Hisashi Kondo, Sashie Masakatsu, Rie Kawashima, Rieko Sakuri, Miki Taira, and Erika Yamashiro. [Via LAist]