Agata Nowicka

http://www.agatanowicka.com/

Agata Nowicka is an illustrator based in Warsaw. Follow her latest works and projects on her Insta.

Originally posted 30.03.2010.

Martina Paukova

www.martinapaukova.com
 Illustrator from Slovakia. "Clients include Southwark Arts Forum, Natural History Museum, University of the Arts, Open University or Borough Market."

Sara Andreasson

Wangechi Mutu

You Are My Sunshine, 2015

The work of Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu combines elements of sci-fi and Afrocentricity as a means of reflecting and commenting on present day issues of people of color as well as re-examining past historical events.  Mutu’s art is considered Afrofuturist because she often approaches her themes with a sci-fi like blueprint to contemplate alternate realities for Africa and people of African descent. She specifically depicts this with her morphing of the organic (human) and inorganic (machine) via collage on huge pieces of mylar. You can see this depicted strongly in her series Family Tree. The female form is often if not always central in her work. Her figurative pieces combine technology and organic ‘parts’ (human and animal) from tears found in porn, fashion, and auto magazines, along with random and non random materials. “Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.”

Via tomboybklyn

Mickalene Thomas

Interior: Zebra with Two Chairs and Funky Fur, 2014
PRINT
Relief, intaglio, lithography, archival inkjet, collage, enamel paint, gold leaf, colored pencil
109.2 x 134.6 cm
Edition of 24

A classic constructed interior that draws inspiration from Matisse, Romare Bearden, Cubism and contemporary Pop references which has been constant influences in Thomas’s work. The artist explores the interplay of line, form, and material, punctuated by the impeccable use of color and textures. Brooklyn artist Mickalene Thomas is known for her elaborate, collage-inspired paintings, embellished with rhinestones, enamel, and colorful acrylics. Her depictions of African American women explore a spectrum of black female beauty and sexual identity while constructing images of femininity and power. Thomas’s production is informed by the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, still life, and the female nude. She combines careful borrowings from historical painting with contemporary popular culture, taking cues from such artists as Romare Bearden, Gustave Courbet, David Hockney, Édouard Manet, and Henri Matisse. In combining traditional genres with African American female subjects, Thomas makes a case for opening up the conventional parameters of art history and culture.

Via artspace.

T.S Abe

Born in 1989 in Brixton, London and a graduate of Central Saint Martins University of the Arts, Her drawings have appeared in album covers, magazines like Dazed and Confused, exhibition shows, among other mediums.
http://www.tsabe.co.uk/

Toyin Odutola

Toyin Ojih Odutola is a visual artist who creates drawings utilizing a variety of media. With any given tool, she emphasizes how an image is a striated terrain to mine beyond representation. Born in Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 1985, she earned her BA from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and her MFA from California College of the Arts. She currently lives and works in New York.
http://toyinojihodutola.com/

Maria Thereza Alves

Artist Maria Thereza Alves, originally from Brazil and of Guarani, Kaingang, Portuguese, and African descent, has lived and worked in Europe since 1994. Her projects are concerned not only with the repatriation of objects but also with how these returns can enable greater agency for indigenous peoples in her home country. Concerned with the recovery of knowledge, Her project Fair Trade Head (2007) is a provocation aimed at European museums. The idea of the piece is that a living person can donate their head to the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Rouen in exchange for the return of a head from the Rouen collection back to the community of origin in Aotearoa/New Zealand.



Fair Trade Head (2007), Lambda prints, diptych, 100 x 100 cm each


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Chiara Broggi

Kasper Florio

http://www.kasper-florio.ch — "Kasper-Florio is the collaborative experience of Larissa Kasper and Rosario Florio. Our working method follows a quality-conscious and conceptual position. We’re aiming for project specific solutions with a strong approach to elaborated and solid typography. Aspiring a mindfully executed design, we work on various commissions in the cultural field, art, fashion and music." —

Joana Vasconcelos

http://www.joanavasconcelos.com/

Malin Gabriella Nordin

http://www.malingabriella.com/

Nina Leen

Nina Leen was one of the first women photographers for LIFE. Born in Russia, grew up in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Upon first arriving in the United States in 1939, her reporter's eye led to a series of the habits and rituals of her newly adopted homeland. In 1945, Leen joined LIFE, producing over 40 covers and countless spreads for the magazine. Her series on, "A Teenager Monopolizes the Telephone," or her descriptions and images of "The American Male," are portraits of the North American society of its time.

Anna Rack

Amazing embroidery work by Anna Jane Searle (aka Anna Rack).
Check more of her works at Flickr / Blogger / Etsy / Society6.

*Image retouched just for purposes of imagination.

Angela Rossi

http://www.beatupcreations.com
http://www.etsy.com/shop/BeatUpCreations

—"I strive to be simple. I like small things, dirty art and banjo music. Most of the time I am called Angela. I was born and bred in Los Angeles. My father and my brother are both professional artists. My mother is an expert craftsman. I am not."

via Claudio Parentela at foggygrizzly.

Donna Wearmouth

http://www.donnawearmouth.co.uk/

Lotta Nieminen

http://www.lottanieminen.com/

Lotta Nieminen is a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. She has studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Rhode Island School of Design. She is based in NYC, working for design studio RoAndCo. As an illustrator, Lotta is represented by illustration agency Agent Pekka.

Christina Christoforou

Hair-Portraits of the presidents. From left to right: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama.

http://www.christinachristoforou.com/
via imrevolting.
via nytimes.

Bianca Pilet

Comic Book Convention / Strip Dagen Houten
Photographer: http://www.biancapilet.com/
via jrphotos

Marcela Cardenas

http://www.behance.net/marcelacardenas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcelacardenas/

Ceramic dancer and swans.