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Artists featured in the California Gimmicky Art Periodical | LA | SF | SD

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1 in 8 Americans live in California. That as well accounts for a large population of artists. Here in random order are 50 purlieus slap-up artists who take made the country their own. While no list is ever complete, it is a wonderful cross section of new & old, forte & pianissimo, Castilian Montana & Winsor Newton, and Cougar Gold & Brick. (and yes, absolutely this list has a bias to the medium of pigment) If you have merely always bought art at IKEA (and some of information technology isn't one-half bad) but you lot take never owned an original, click the links and consider ownership a piece of but 1 of these people's time, sweat, and convictions. Art is a timeline of history, and California in the 21st century volition be a visual fasten to call back. - B.C.

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No. 1 | Justin Bower

Based out of Los Angeles, California, Justin Bower is an artist who creates large-scale oil paintings that await as if they were digital pieces. Bower pushes his portraits into brainchild equally he explores "modern man's immersive connectivity to engineering and obsession with altering their physical image" by utilizing digitized, dissected, and fragmented furnishings in his work.

Acid Test, 2012
Oil on canvas
seven' (H) X six' (W)

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No. 2 | Mike Stilkey

Los Angeles native Mike Stilkey has always been attracted to painting and drawing not only on vintage newspaper, tape covers and book pages, just on the books themselves. Using a mix of ink, colored pencil, paint and lacquer, Stilkey depicts a melancholic and at times a whimsical bandage of characters inhabiting ambiguous spaces and narratives of fantasy and fairy tales. A lingering sense of loss and longing hints at emotional depth and draws the viewer into their introspective thrall with a mixture of capricious poesy, wit, and mystery. His piece of work is reminiscent of Weimar-era High german expressionism and his style has been described by some as capturing features of artists ranging from Edward Gorey to Egon Schiele.

His work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well every bit internationally, at galleries and museums such as the Bristol City Museum in the UK, LeBasse Projects in Culver City, CA, Kinsey/DesForges Gallery in Culver Metropolis, CA, David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, CO, Gilman Gimmicky Gallery, Ketchum, ID, and Rice University Gallery, Houston, TX.

Hurley )( Space Gallery
"Reminiscent" June 2010, 12x10 ft. Acrylic on over 2000 books

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No. iii | Jason Pearson

While living in New York City, Pearson created album art and then editorial fashion and music magazine visuals-all powerfully represented in his art. Over the last five years nevertheless, he has worked on campaigns and documentaries addressing the global issues of modernistic slavery, aids + orphan epidemics, hunger and human rights. Now living in Southern California, Pearson finds himself strangely interconnected to the urgent crises of the outside world, yet encased in a bubble of comfort and luxury.

Pearson works actively with strategic NGOs on human being rights and poverty bug-providing poignant inspiration for his creative piece of work. He'southward currently engaged in a stunning initiative to foster and create underground ideas and visuals in selected nations that are unfriendly towards the United States. Pearson's work is featured in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian and Victoria and Albert Museum.

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No. iv | Andrew Myers

Andrew Myers was born in Braunshweig, Federal republic of germany, and raised in Ciudad Real, Spain. He now resides in Laguna Beach, California, where he has lived since attending the Laguna College of Art and Design (formerly the Art Institute of Southern California). The first time he gear up foot in the classroom, he was amazed to see students depicting live nude models in clay; a seemingly primitive art grade he had only seen in books.

These are perchance the iii most plumbing equipment words to describe Andrew's unique brand of contemporary artwork. But linguistic descriptions neglect to fairly capture the progressive mixed media works he creates with screws, oil paint, charcoal, bronze, cement, and found objects. To truly experience Andrew's fine art, information technology must exist seen and even touched.

I of the artist's favorite memories was watching a blind homo feel his work for the first time. As the man ran his hands over a large 3-dimensional portrait tediously constructed with tens of thousands of screws over hundreds of man hours, his blank expression all of a sudden transformed into a warm smile. He could experience what others could only see

John | Screws, Oil, Phonebook

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No. 5 | Paige Smith

This quite mutual and unoriginal graphic design and art web log is dedicated to exploration. I'm stepping away from the computer (most of the time) and creating stuff with my hands. My inspiration comes from paint, paper art, cartoons, collage, metalwork, illustration, way, etc. The list goes on…

Rely on this blog to make mistakes, observe, explore, succeed, fail in design—and to not over anazlyze it. Although, peradventure through this process, I'll notice what I'yard nigh passionate for. Just like anybody else.

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No. 6 | Shay Bredimus

A figurative painter and renowned tattoo creative person, Bredimus employs languid and gestural marks using tattoo ink on drafting film to portray spontaneous and personal moments of his models. His classical grooming in portraiture is evident, to which he has added aesthetic influences from Japanese tattoo and Ukiyo-e prints.

A survivor of a traumatic brain injury that occurred at historic period ten Bredimus relates, "After the blow visual linguistic communication became my first language and master fashion of expression, solidifying my life in the visual arts".

Shay Bredimus earned an MFA in 2008 from the Laguna College of Art and Design in Laguna, California and a BFA in painting from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada in 2004. He has studied nether mentors F. Scott Hess and Wes Christensen, amidst others. His piece of work was featured in two solo exhibitions at Koplin Del Rio, in Culver Urban center California where he is represented. Shay has earned critical praise from Artweek and Inked magazine.

"Black Island: Ischia, Italy", 2011, tattoo ink and wax crayon on drafting film, 8" diam.

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No. vii | Tavis Coburn

Tavis Coburn graduated from California's prestigious Art Center College of Blueprint with a BFA in Illustration. Since then, Tavis has created endless works for leading publishing, advertisement, and music companies in Due north America and Europe.

Googling Tavis Coburn reveals that more a quarter million people call back his piece of work is awesome.

"The Corporation" Print fifteen" x 20" print on 17" ten 22" Epson Ultra Smoothen Fine Art Paper using Epson's archival-quality Ultrachrome ink system.

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No. viii | David Flores

Flores started illustrating for Skateboards, Surf and Snowboards at 17. Flores briefly worked for Shortys Skateboards every bit a freelance Illustrator during those early on years he would get internationally published in the pages of Transworld Skateboarding for his illustration of the Black Panthers skate bearing logo by the age of 20. He too contributed to many other companys such as Real, Stereo, Thunder, Doh Doh, BlackMagic.[ane] Anti Hero, Powell Peralta, Spitfire Wheels, and Lucky Bearings this career would path would concluding upward until the late 90'southward generating a mass corporeality of art and graphics that are still used to this twenty-four hours, ending at Deluxe Distribution by 2001.

Through all of his projects, Flores has successfully blurred the line between art and Commercial Merchandise. He uses his Particular Style to allow Ordinary imagery to infiltrate the Global Phase. The artist is currently Collaborating with both the commercial and fine art communities. Recent exhibitions include a Solo at Gallery1988(2004) Another Fine Mess (2011) Suede Gallery, and LA destroyers (NIKE) consequence. DFisXL Xlarge gallery Tokyo,Japan(2006), An Exhibition in Hong Kong'southward Times Foursquare with Disney'south Block28(2009)[7] Flores has been periodically showing both paintings and products internationally since 1997 up to the present day with a Solo Show slated for dec 8th 2011 at the brand new Phil Stern Gallery where Flores will add his own unique style and Touch on to famous Portraits and prints past the legendary Lensman Phil Stern.

Near Recently Flores has been busy solidifying Himself as one of the Worlds Top Muralists with large scale paintings of his imagery in the Streets Of Los Angeles, with Plans to Further demonstrate mural efforts internationally likewise.

Tupac | 24x32 - rareink.com

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No. ix | Elmac | Miles 'Mac' MacGregor

Born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an creative person, Mac has been creating and studying art independently since babyhood. He was inspired at a young age past classic European painters such every bit Caravaggio, and Vermeer and Fine art Nouveau symbolists such as Klimt and Mucha. This was mixed with the more than gimmicky influences of graffiti and photorealism, as well as every bit the Chicano & Mexican culture he grew up around.

He began painting with acrylics and painting graffiti in the mid '90s, when his primary focus became the life-like rendering of human faces and figures. He has since worked consistently toward developing his unique rendering style, which utilizes repeating profile lines reminiscent of ripples. Turing patterns and ethnic North American art. In 1999 he began to paint portraits of his friends and bearding Mexican Laborers in public spaces throughout the American southwest, both legally and illegally. He also started painting large technicolor droplets interpretations of classic paintings by old European masters. This led to beingness commissioned in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in Brugge, Kingdom of belgium to paint his interpretations of classic Flemish Archaic paintings in the museum's collection. He has since been commissioned to paint murals across the U.s.a., as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, Due south Korea, Belgium, Italy, Holland, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Singapore, Germany, Republic of ireland, the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, Vietnam and Cuba.

Manuel Lee Chang – El Coreano (Seres Queridos) Painted with spraypaint & fatcaps for the Seres Queridos project. Campeche, México, 2010

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No. ten | Barzolff

Multidisciplinary French-artist Barzolff is currently showing the exhibition Art Past THE GRAM at LA's Here is Elsewhere Gallery. Barzolff was born in France and currently lives and works in LA. He works in a range of mediums including graffiti, 3D animation, video installation, drawing, and painting. Barzolff started out as Numéro 6, a groundbreaking graffiti artist in the Parisian street fine art scene and went to a career in 3D animation and became known for his animation and "hoax" projects. For the past 3 years he has been working full-fourth dimension on his art and this will be a culmination of that work. This exhibition includes recently completed large-calibration paintings, video installations, stereoscopy, and drawings "sold by the gram".

"The Gender Theory," triptych, 2012-2013.

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No. xi | Alex Schaefer

Investigating issues of backlog, criminality, and history, Alex Schaefer's paintings work together as expressive and documentary show of the current fiscal crisis, its sources and place in history. Very recently, Schaefer gained notoriety for his plein air paintings of various Los Angeles Chase Banking concern locations, which he painted being consumed by fires. As performative works, the banks aflame series was successful in cartoon the ire and concern of actual Chase bankers, who had Schaefer rousted past law both during the act of painting and afterward at his home. Like most absurdist overreactions, Schaefer'southward treatment as a criminal suspect too resulted in a considerable spike of press attention, and an auction sale of the get-go burning banking company painting for over $twenty,000 dollars. Schaefer'south source material draws from a wide range of inputs, from the aforementioned "landscapes" of the bank buildings themselves, to historical photographic imagery, art historical scenes, and found photographic content lifted from public photo sharing sites.

Alex Schaefer (b.1969 Los Angeles) took his BFA from the Art Middle College of Blueprint in 1992. He worked 9 years as an artist in the video game industry for Disney and Insomniac Games doing 2-D texture mapping, lighting and 3-D modeling. 11 years agone Schaefer dedicated himself full time to painting, and now teaches at the Art Centre College of Design. Schaefer's work has been covered in the LA Times, ArtINFO, The New York Observer, the Huffington Post, and Arms Mag. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles

B of A: Eagle Rock
Oil on Canvas | plein air | 8x6

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No. 12 | Alec Monopoly

Alec Monopoly is an American street artist, graffiti creative person, and painter. He is known for his satirical spins using the Monopoly man, in reference to contemporary styles or situations.

"I stay away from mailboxes, highways, freeways, and basically whatever federal and regime holding. I like warehouses and abandoned buildings. For example I would never hitting a java store like the ane we're in: they [the owners] are trying to make information technology just similar I am. I effort to be as positive as I tin can well-nigh what I put out there and I try to do it with imagery everyone can identify with. Nigh people walking past my stuff are non graffiti people or art people, so figuring out a way that everyone can place with my work is of import."

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No. thirteen | Ala Ebtekar

Ala Ebtekar (built-in July 21, 1978) is an American-based visual artist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Surface area. Ebtekar is known primarily for his work in painting, cartoon, and installation that explores the juncture between history and myth, forging a multi-faceted project that melds Persian mythology, science, philosophy and pop culture together

Ala Ebtekar
"Untitled," 2008
Acrylic, watercolor, and ink on book pages. 17" ten xiv"
Courtesy of Gallery Paule Anglim

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No. fourteen | Rex Yuasa

Rex Yuasa'south piece of work explores the relationship between beauty and the sublime. Yuasa first began developing a body of work based on the idea of "void," which he describes equally a non-signifiable space with no structure or texture, hence no narrative. Yuasa wanted to incorporate his involvement in painting equally visual illusion into the investigation of how to manifest such a space in paintings.

Built-in in Tokyo, Yuasa received his B.F.A. in 1990 at San Diego State University, and his M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts in 1992. He has exhibited in museums and galleries in both the United States and Japan, and his work is in numerous public and corporate collections including the Museum of Contemporary Fine art Tokyo, Nihon; the Nerima City Art Museum, Tokyo, Nippon; and the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Nihon. The creative person currently lives in San Diego and teaches painting at the University of California, San Diego.

"F.P.Yard.9" 36 x 36 inches, Acrylic, Oil & Alkyd on Canvass