Christopher Burk art
Columbus based fine artist Christopher Burk focuses on depicting the American urban landscape through the vehicle of paintings, and drawings.
Sophie Sturdevant
Self-taught and self-starting American contemporary artist Sophie Sturdevant focuses on the woman's body in her work and art, interpreting her as strong in her vulnerability and beautiful in her femininity through abstract figuration. “A woman’s beauty is like nothing the world has ever seen; she has a unique ability to be strong, but kind, and powerful, but soft, simultaneously”, Sophie states on her website
Briscoe Park photography
American fine art photographer that enjoys Sci-fi like settings. Briscoe Park lives and travels in his van shooting strange concepts.
Boris Pelcer
Sarajevo-born Portland-based artist Boris Pelcer creates his work as a way to explore the intangible complexities of human emotions, thoughts, ideas and behaviours. Deep down, it is all an effort to better understand his human experience.
Seerlight illustrations
Ronald Kuang working under Seerlight moniker uses serenity twilight palette to create his magic anime-like dystopian worlds and visual stories
Jeffrey Czum
Discovered on “Accidentally Wes Anderson” (@accidentallywesanderson) Jeffrey Czum photography and photography manipulations stands out either by a colour palette or by a message and its realisation
Aaron Nagel Art
Aaron Nagel is a figurative oil painter living in Oakland, US. As the self taught artist he is using classical oil painting techniques and traditions to show vivid images of the female form and portraiture. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Philadelphia, Tucson, Miami, and New York and has shown at international art fairs such as Art Miami, Scope, and Art Revolution Taipei
Tattoo and dot painting art by Evan Lorenzen
Denver based artist Evan Lorenzen creates outstanding dot painting miniatures and tattoos
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Cameron Burns
Cameron Burns known as CaptvArt specialises in music album cover art and animation. He's worked with Run The Jewels, Daddy Yankee, summer walker, ACER computers, The Lumineers, Neon trees, The Word Alive, Juice Wrld, MGK and many more. Recently he is into NFT scene doing his drops on Foundation and Knownorigin
Jon Ching Art
Jon Ching is a self-trained artist originally from Kaneohe, Hawaii and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Steeped in natural beauty of O’ahu, Hawai’i, his island upbringing instilled in him indigenous lessons of appreciation and respect for nature, forming the foundation of his fascination with the natural and wild world, which deeply influences and drives his current work.
Jon’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature. His work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce. New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth through metaphor and allegory.
Jon’s ultimate hope is to inspire love and admiration for the universally unique beauty and intrigue of our planet. He regularly works to bring awareness to endangered species, the current mass extinction crisis and climate change and continues to partner with environmental organizations in fundraising and educational efforts.
One Thousand Ksoids
1000 original and collectible KSOIDS 3D characters by VFX artist Danil Krivoruchko -- NFTs with a heart and meaning, now at OpenSea
Meet the Ksoids, an impossibly addictive NFT collectible that not only creates a world all its own, but also helps protect our world.
Each one of these curious creatures was generated by a hand-crafted algorithm and then lovingly selected by creator Danil Krivoruchko to join an elite group of 1,000 Grade-A Ksoids, all available to the discerning investor.
The first few drops will be sold on the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and available in randomly selected packs of 1, 4, and 10. It’s also possible there will be a few easter eggs thrown into the mix, but that’s all we’re saying for now.
Charity Donations
Thankfully adopting a Ksoid doesn’t have to mean decimating either their habitat or ours. In an attempt to counteract NFTs’ negative environmental impact, Ksoids will work to reduce their footprint through the purchase of carbon offsets.
Not only that, but 20% of all profits will be donated to the Orangutan Outreach, an organization dedicated to protecting orangutans in their native forests, while also caring for orphaned orangutans.
Brooklyn-based Myshli Studio was founded by Danil Krivoruchko, a motion designer, director, and visual effects artist. Krivoruchko's NFT works are already well-known to digital art collectors, having been featured on platforms such as KnownOrigin and Foundation; the Ksoids will mark his premiere on OpenSea. His digital art work is also well-known in the film community. Last October, a collaborative group of designers and artists under the direction of Krivoruchko used 3D-imaging to transform the sci-fi novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts into a short film. The movie has won over a dozen awards, including the Best Animation Award at the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival. In the past 17 years, Danil has collaborated with clients such as Apple, Nike, Boeing, Verizon, and Intel, to name a few.
Anthony Hurd
Anthropomorphic abstract paintings by Anthony Hurd attract with it’s deep layering of thoughts and senses one can decode based on its own life experience
GRIF ╳ Superrare
The "Equinox Collection" by GRIF
The collection explores themes of escapism, re-birth, nature, and energy. Seen here in ‘Going Green’, we’re transported to a remote desert location, desolate and dry. A luxury car reflects the barren landscape from its manufactured shell.
Brooklyn Brownstone
In conjunction with the 2021 Spring equinox, ‘The Equinox Collection’ by GRIF will be exclusively available on SuperRare.
The collection presents surrealist depictions of the everyday as it is overtaken by nature. An invisible catalyst moves through each piece - a transfer of natural energy that pollinates each environment, reimagining it as an expansive floral tapestry.
The pieces are a juxtaposition between our manmade environments and nature. “This concept was born out of wanting to craft something optimistic and beautiful, but to create works thats can only exist within the medium of 3D” says GRIF. “What I love most is that these expressions of nature could never exist in the natural world, it’s a reinterpretation born only from the digital space.”
And now available exclusively in the digital space. The Equinox Collection will be released in weekly increments over the late March to April period on SuperRare.
See @GRIF’s page for official release dates as well as additional artworks.
As nature begins to take its course, the juxtaposition of the uninhabited environment and the floral growth creates a striking contrast
Juxtaposition of nature
Moreover, the introduction of floral growth finds itself in evolving on the more unexpected, non-organic surfaces in the scene. Populating the graphic and geometric lines of the basketball court markings, seen here in “Angels Gate”
3D as a medium
Here, in the re-imagining of ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ (Johannes Vermeer 1665), the flat oil painting becomes “dimensionalized”, as our camera investigates the finer details of the cracking paint and textural details. The form of the girl becomes appended with a blooming floral arrangement, representing the passing of time with something that is timeless, nature
Expanding the dimensions of these pieces is something only achievable by the medium of 3D animation, movement is essential to the presentation concept of the works
The Transfer of Energy
The cinematography of ‘Great Basin Skate Heaven’ is a blend of fish-eye and long lens zooms, paying homage to that of classic skate videos style that’s remained prevalent in the culture since its inception.
We follow a skater as they perform tricks and stunts in a skaters paradise, located in the Utah Great Basin. The idyllic sunset scene bears witness to the transfer of energy between this floral figure and the contrasting concrete environment beneath, saturated in graffiti. The figure acting as a catalyst, pollinates the park causing nature to reclaim the concrete
Arch McLeish Photography
New York-based photographer and art director Arch McLeish likes the solace of empty places. His photography embraces traces of people, freeing up the space they leave behind for a myriad of interpretations.
Louis Vuitton Travel Book Saint Petersburg by Kelly Beeman
Living in this masterpiece city always a pleasure to see how travelling artists accept it and admire its beauty. NYC-based Kelly Beeman was commissioned by Louis Vuitton’s Travel Book Series to create a body of work that play off the many unique traits of the city.
Beeple: The First 5000 Days
Being a pioneer of digital art promotion - Designcollector is always looking for the breakaway artists whose intuition way ahead of the main peloton. Groundbreaking digital artist Mike Winkelmann known as Beeple is one of them. Since 2007 Mike has created 5,000+ digital artworks by following a simple rule: one image per day. The diligence paid off when the rise of NFT trading burst like a fresh wave onto the digital art scene just at the moment of another lockdown after another lockdown during 2020. Beeple played a huge role in reinforcing beliefs in quite an ephemeral way of selling unique artworks for cryptocurrency by imprinting them “forever” into Ethereum blockchain.
His January’s drop of a dozen phygital artworks (non-fungible token JPG + physical collectible including a certificate “signed” by artist’s hair in a capsule) rocketed the NFT scene by a one week auction on Nifty Gateways platform.
And here come Christie’s what means art institutions started to look (if not late) onto the opportunity to catch an NFT wave by putting Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS - a huge stitched image featuring all images he created over 13 years. Organised in loose chronological order, zooming in on individual pieces reveals abstract, fantastical, grotesque, and absurd pictures, alongside current events and deeply personal moments. The NFT is minted on another platform Makersplace and is available for bidding on Christie’s website
“The notable difference between the pictures from Day 1 (1 May, 2007) and Day 5,000 (7 January, 2021) reveals Beeple’s immense evolution as an artist. At the project’s inception, Everydays consisted of basic drawings. Once Beeple started working in 3D, they took on abstract themes, colour, form, and repetition. In the last five years, however, his digital pictures have became increasingly timely, often reacting to current events.” says Christie’s in its groundbreaking article
“Art should be everywhere and everyone should live like an artist and create their dreams. In a decentralized world, this is possible.”
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Jade Purple Brown
Jade Purple Brown is an artist living in New York City. Her work uses strong figures, vibrant coloгrs, and messages of optimism to create new, dynamic worlds of individuality and empowerment. Her artistic practice spans across Illustration, Design, and Creative Direction, and has attracted a wide range of global clients.
Abigail Larson
Meet illustrator Abigail Larson raised in Virginia, US and living in Italy and now having a full-time job as character designer at Netflix Animation
Cobi Moules Art
The works of Cobi Moules reminds us the scenes from “Lord of Flies” book of William Golding but with a deeper self-exploration
Jermaine Saunders
LA based motion graphic designer Jermaine Saunders shares his best digital artworks
