// July 5th, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd, b-wired
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// May 28th, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
Raging against the machine. Catalysing change. A pilot distresses as he watches his plane plummet. We’ve picked art from our crowd in this vein. The activist or revolutionary believes one person can change the world and that the world needs a changing. The outsiders and free thinkers have always refreshed man’s consciousness and artists are our cultural visionaries. b-uncut’s online artists network has started an art revolution going against the grain of the traditional art industry. Liberating and empowering artists and opening their work up to the world. From our talented collective we have selected 5 artworks that sing the sweet song of rebellion.
“The subject matter is based on the philosophy that lies behind the perception of reality and imagination and the way that those two can blend together. Following those principles I am creating visuals and stories blending traditional techniques with digital and special effects” Margarita I. Alassia
“I find my work can be in your face and that’s the effect I wish to give off as well as a message. Sometimes I can find my art to be dark and yet also give light on what is affecting the world.” Jason Ellis
“There is no winner, we are all losers – I didn’t finish this painting series yet, several other key incidences and the city ablaze including my little Spa Siam shop in one of the city centre’s largest shopping Mall – still too hot to assess the damage but I don’t think there’s much left-just mangled steel and burnt out concrete. The Red shirts have announced that they will be starting up again on 26 th June – great we clear up what’s left of our city for them to come back and destroy it again.” Arisara Caroline Faulder
Carl John Dimitri has a selection of political mixed media pieces. This style is aggravated by the subject matter which ingrains these images with frustration and presence.
“Redvolution is a small painting that was shown at a group show called “Retomando el Rojo”, which means something like “taking back the red”. Chavez´s so called revolution has taken the colour red hostage and the show addressed that. Redvolution is a perfume bottle in the spirit of Gautier that represents the fake ideal of the revolution. The cologne bottle of the Redvolution is fashioned in our real liberator’s classical attire, Simon Bolivar’s. Fundamentally it is more of a capitalist venture for a few than a populist movement but they have been sooo smart at doing it that they have fooled many for more than a decade. Now millions of Venezuelans and Americans; people like Sean penn, Danny Glover, and even Oliver Stone!!! I lived in Cuba for over a year so I know how bad these repressive regimes are!!! Anyway Redvolution is the new fragrance By Hugo D´Boss… a.k.a Hugo Chavez….” Javaroa Jose-Vazquez
// May 5th, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
Javaroa has participated in many art fairs, solo shows and group shows…He was part owner of an advertising agency in Venezuela that is still running today and is one of the top 15 agencies.
“I am still a part of it…but back in 95 I started painting, by 97 I knew this is what I really loved doing, so I left everything and moved to la Habana to study art and paint. I studied there at La Academia de Arte San Alejandro, the second oldest art school in the Americas! I spent a year there and then moved to NYC. I got a scholarship at the New York Studio School and studied with great artists like Graham Nickson, Mercedes Mater, Wayne Thiebaud, etc… since I got the scholarship that let me to enrol at night at NY academy of art… by 2001 I had decided to study with Jenny Saville in London and moved to the Slade school of painting at the University college of London.
2002 came along and Venezuela was in deep political turmoil so I went there to participate. I and many others over through President Chavez on the 11th April. That event changed me and I started working with the news. Gluing newspaper onto everything…that led me to land a huge political collage, painting at the MOLAA. The Museum of Latin American Art in California…the most important and representative museum for Latin American art in the US.
Since then I have gone back to colour and pop culture but the idea still remains the same…everything is covered by the media, tinted, manipulated…might as well have fun with it and try to get our real information from other more reliable sources….POP culture is as dangerous as a dictator.
Redvolution (above) is a small painting that was shown at a group show called “Retomando el Rojo”, which means something like “taking back the red”. Chavez´s so called revolution has taken the colour red hostage and the show addressed that. My painting; Redvolution is a poignant joke to his “socialist movement”. It is a perfume bottle in the spirit of something like Gautier, that represents the fake ideal of the revolution. The cologne bottle of the Redvolution is fashioned in our real liberator’s classical attire, Simon Bolivar’s. Fundamentally it is more of a capitalist venture for a few than a populist movement but they have been sooo smart at doing it that they have fooled many for more than a decade. Now millions of Venezuelans and Americans; people like Sean penn, Danny Glover, and even Oliver Stone!!! I lived in Cuba for over a year so I know how bad these repressive regimes are!!! sorry for my rambling! Anyway Redvolution is the new fragrance By Hugo D´Boss… a.k.a Hugo Chavez….”
// May 3rd, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
Katya Leonovich describes her paintings as figurative, abstract and high fashion. ‘Man in Black’ below is one of many energetic ruptures tightly grabbing the viewer by the scruff of the neck. Visit her page to see more tantalising and bold depictions of the human form.
// April 30th, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
Benjamin Dunis, AKA Ben Duni, was born in July 1983 in Lyon, France. Graduated in marketing in Nantes Business School, He led an artistic side project in collages for one year. His inspirations are unlimited and related to his culture : video games, SF movies, war, violence, patriotism, romantism, sex and music… Women are in the centre of the majority of his artworks, they are always the beginning of his inspiration. His goal is to parody a lot of different subjects or develop an idea/scenario through an artwork.
Kathy Seaboyer had her first solo show in an commercial gallery in 2008. Her work includes childhood memories, fact-based historical references and modern-media based information. The work is executed in a variety of styles and media to further enhance the final outcome. She has exhibited extensively most notably at Bemused, Argyle Fine Art in Halifax NS Canada, Art As Spectacle, Katonah Museum of Modern Art in NY, International Millennium Show in Kyoto Japan and Metaphor for the 20th Century at the Hera Gallery in Rhode Island. She will be having a solo show of her latest work in Mexico at the end of the year.
Cora de Lang has worked in many places all over the world including Nigeria, Germany, India, Mexico, Spain and currently working in Sri Lanka. She says the reason why she left her home town and travels around the world is to prove to herself “that the dismissal of the otherness as a culture, countries or people are nourished and preserved by prejudices – and I wanted to overcome them”. Her work really shows her connection with different cultures and worldwide artists.
Stefan Fransson is an artist from Stockholm, Sweden. He received a M.F.A in Sculpture at the Royal Acadamy in Stockholm, and the influence of the medium of sculpture is certainly visible in his textural and multi-elemental collage works. These works are created digitally, and Fransson enjoys the freedom of the creative process in the medium of collage as he is constantly moving the shapes and colours in an image. Fransson has recently begun to display his collages in an international network, and this has resulted in a commission for his work to be displayed in the Google centre in Stockholm.
// April 29th, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
Takashi is a Japanese painter, surfer & karate student. He has chosen to express his feelings between the abstract and figurative with blushes of colour. When he’s had difficulties in life, art was there and helped his soul. From this; specials paintings came. His work is not all born from adversity but instead there was an audience who spoke with him and through his paintings.
The broad, confident brush stokes and bright expressions would bring positivity, sunshine and warmth to any environment. Takashi gives calligraphic spirit to canvas and his painting echoes the zen culture he prescribes to. If it were music, you’d call it Chill-out or Balearic but like the artist there’s more to it than that. Click here to visit Takashi’s gallery page or invest in his work.
// April 4th, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
Charbel Samuel Aoun - Passion
Robert Wilkinson - Church Window
Mirko Sevic - 00
SecondNature – Above Us The Trees
Anil Kumar Kohli - Expression of Heaven// April 2nd, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
// April 1st, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
// March 30th, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
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If Van Gogh was alive, he would obviously be a member of b-uncut and we may have selected the self-portrait he painted after he lobbed off a chunk of his ear but still he would have had stiff competition! Images can transport us, even for a moment we can lose ourselves in an artist’s vision. There’s nothing like an image taking you on that trip into unknown realms and imprisoning you with its voodoo. Time to walk through the city gates and hitch a ride on our crazy train. It’s March Madness!!
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Spanish artist Milan Rubio was born in Madrid. Drawing everywhere was an early obsession. He studied animation and illustration and his work appears in national and international magazines. He is always finding new ways to express the inner beauty of the human body. His paintings follow one statement: Think fast, paint faster. He captures warm earth colors from his Mediterranean roots and represents the human figure in a modern, neo-cubist style. His graphic work is about power and boldness. He is a young emerging artist with group exhibitions in Madrid, London, Bologna and New York.
Chinese artist DongSheng Guan has exhibited in Russia and China. Now in the middle stage of his artistic career he concentrates in three areas: watercolor painting, contemporary paintings and digital art. In his ‘Spring Light‘ series Guan has pumped a glass-wall voyeurism onto imagery that is prolific on the internet. The visual language of these playboy pastries could be likened to Chuck Close but not their conception. Guan takes animalistic control of the viewer and lures them helplessly into the unsettling position of a peeping Tom.
Italian Rita Carioti developed a passion for art when she was 14 years old. She has worked as a professional photographer for architecture, publicity, portraits, scenery and photo-journalism. She photographs numerous famous characters from the art and performance industries and many of her photos are published in daily papers, books, catalogues, brochures and reviews. Rita is currently a teacher at the Photographic Studio of Arezzo where she lives and works. She loves to search for and express humanity’s internal landscapes. Her works dynamically probe our conditions. Her conceptual imagery is direct and exposes our frailest notions.
Born in what was Yugoslavia and now living in Spain, painter Mirjana Lucic’s art is raw. She is a graduate in Philosophy and Literature and a post-graduate Painter. Her drawings and paintings are the result of a constant search for the inexplicable in and above our own selves. In her paintings you’ll notice tense connections grasping as they are torn from one another. Tied systems that battle and repel but co-exist. Their savage harmony is tactile and commanding as well as deftly engrossing.
French artist Herbot specialises in photomontage. He was born and grew up in a harbor city… Square shaped, rectangular and surrounded by the sea. “When I was little I couldn’t draw well, so I had fun cutting out pictures and assembling the pieces together, I didn’t know it yet but I was making photo-montage…” His photo-montage has advanced and his work is now incisive, funny and a bit mad.
