James Jean is an artist I just recently heard about. He's a Taiwan-born LA based artist. He began as an illustrator and as of recently has been getting a lot of attention for his paintings. His sketchbook drawings completely amaze me- talk about creative- the line work and the imagery are just stunning. beautiful and intricate.
Kate Clark's work really caught my attention when I recently saw her stuff. Clark’s sculpture’s have sympathetic faces tinged with anger, regret or seductiveness, question what it is to be human. In an interview lark stated “I create sculptures that are natural animal bodies with faces that have been transformed to have human facial features,” Clark says. “The sculptures present the viewer with the human face, which they relate to, the animal body, with which they reject a relationship, and finally the fusion of these two parallel but distinctly different lives.” Interesting work visually-- but I still feel the more I read about her the more that her work can be pushed more... but cool stuff.
Tracey Emin is best known for her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliqued with names in the Sahchi collection. I think the best word to describe Emin is raw. Her work has been called "confessional art" because of her ability to integrate her peices and personal life enables Emin to establish an intimacy with the viewer.
Love. sometimes you just want to scream it from the roof tops. Fabrizio Corneli makes work that deals with shadows I really don't like his other work. at all. But I believe it to be very hard to talk about love in art while being true to those emotions and not be cheesey.
