Artists Describing Their Art:
Billie Jean - Billie Jean (born in the 80's) is an italian artist and architect. His artistic field is deeply linked to pop culture, which inspired his pseudonym (quoting a famous song of 1983 by Michael Jackson). It's also related to Pop culture the frequent use of symbols and themes already entered in collective imagination. His works deal with various issues, which are inspired by political and social events, but also from the description of very personal moods. His work tries to be a personal synthesis between pop art and street art, since several works are expressly designed to be painted on urban walls. The main characteristic of the works of Billie Jean is the clean and bare style, usually just in black and white. Often lacking in details, his artworks reflect tragedies and discomforts of society through the simple sketch of the eyes. The expressive drama of his works is sometimes underlined by using absurd and twisted perspectives that drag the viewer into an "impossible" and sometimes "dreamlike" world. To get his stroke so essential, he uses the computer drawing, main technical characteristic of his paintings. His artistic influences lie in 80s Pop Art (J.M. Basquiat, Keith Haring) and ...
Tkl Kizimecca - Born in Tokyo in 1967. I emthusiasmed to watch the insects in my childhood. I was enthusiastic about developing and printing of silver-halide photo when high school student. One day at the age of 16, I bought a canvas sized 1.2 x0.8m and oil paintings tools. Then I started creating oil paintings by self-taught. At the same time, I named myself the pseudonym KIZIMECCA as an artist. In 1988, I published full-handmade hard covered book 6 APOLOGIES OF ONANISM. It was made about 70 copies and sold through Dutch art organization and so on. Some of the copies was held by public libraries in North America. In 1991, I participated a noise compilation CD and Vide art compilation VHS released by US record company in WA. In 2003, I participated a group exhibition at Gallery International in Baltimore MD, and a group exhibition in Melbourne Australia produced by Antipoda. In 2004, first solo exhibition was held and produced by Vanilla gallery in Tokyo Japan. In 2005, many works appeared in top page of the most famous bondage magazine in Japan SM SNIPER serially, and solo exhibition was held in Vanilla gallery. In 2006, some works ...
Jeff Turner - Hi, My name is Jeff Turner. I am 62 years old and living in Bexley, Ohio, USA. I recently retired from a career in information technology. You see, after getting a couple college degrees in fine arts from The Ohio State University, I couldnt find a job but fell into the computer field through adult education. Long story and my resume can be found on linkedin.com. I have been drawing and painting since High School. Most recently my work has taken a political theme. Since Donald Trump became president, I feel compelled to make political statements with my work. Although there are no drawings on this site, you can see some at www.jeffturnerart.com. However you got to this page, I hope you like my work. Peace....
James Earley - I have often been asked why I paint homeless people or people on an emotional knife edge. From a very early age I had always wanted to paint those people who are the victims, I do not know why, why would a young boy want to sketch a homeless person rather than a still life, a landscape or a portrait of someone that they know I firmly believe there are some questions that you can not answer, sometimes your heart tells you something and you just have to follow it no matter where it takes you. This is how I feel. When I paint a still life or any other subject my heart is not there, there is no emotion yet when I paint a person that has the misfortune of constantly having to walk on a cliffs edge and whose emotions are stretched to the limit my heart beats faster, my emotions fight with the image, the image is the subject and it is me. I have been told by many to change subject matters to those that would look nice on someones wall. I do not want to. When someone purchases one of my paintings they are purchasing ...