Samy Charnine

Samy Charnine was born in Nice on the French Riviera, Samy Charnine immigrated to the United States in 1983. He lives a secluded life and is very devoted to his art. He grinds his own paint from historical pigments using recipes and techniques dating from the Renaissance. He is highly demanding on himself and destroys many of his paintings, sometimes years of work, if the result doesn't meet his standards and expectations.

Morgan Davidson

Morgan has had an affinity for colored pencils since she was a kid, but she’s come a long way since then. This soon to be college grad is producing some magically detailed work, taking an interest in nature and fashion and realizing it through a number of exquisitely whimsical, colorful portraits, including the fantastic self-portrait featured at the bottom of this post (a class assignment). We expect to see a lot more impressive work from this young artist, so be sure to keep privy to her creat

Florida-based artist Derek Gores creates brilliant collage masterpieces on canvas using recycling magazines, labels, and other found materials. Over the years, he has become a master at controlling chaos within his artwork.

Kal-Gajoum

Kal was born in Tripoli 1968. His interest in art was sparked at a very early age. In fact, he was only ten years old when he entered his first art competition. Later on he was introduced to oil painting and palette knife techniques by friend of the family who were artist in attendance at the Leonardo D’Vinci school of art in Rome.

Christine Wu is a habitual trouble maker and professional rule breaker. Stylistically, her work is multi-layered with haunting and sexual undertones. She often depicts people in flux, capturing the vulnerability of self discovery and the lingering ghosts of memories best left to the past. Miss Wu lives in the land of the lotus-eaters and paints in a bear suit while listening to car alarms.

Portrait Made from Thousands of Small Galvanized Nails. Kumi Yamashita, an amazing artist, uses a single, unbroken thread wrapped around thousands of nails to create stunning portraits.

Canvas painting, Contemporary art

Danielle Richard lives in Quebec city, Canada, where she was born and educated.

Sara Morais, 1990. Lisbon. Currently MA in Painting- Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Lisbon University'14, Works in Ateliê do Rossio, Lisbon.

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canadian artist chris dorosz creates intricate sculptures using a grid of acrylic rods which he covers in tiny paint drops to create 3-d images. now based in san francisco, dorosz started the paint drop body of work when thinking about the primacy of the paint drop. he explains, ‘the paint drop, a form that takes shape not from a brush or any human-made implement or gesture, but purely from its own viscosity and the air it falls through’. using the paint drop as a building block, dorosz explores

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Artist Augusto Esquivel takes the minuscule and transforms it into the grandiose. He uses thousands of small sewing buttons to craft larger-than-life sized portraits of celebrities. To compose these impressive works, the artist suspends hundreds of monofilament strings from the ceiling. Esquivel then threads the black, white, and gray buttons into hanging chains that separately, look like nothing spectacular. But, once they’ve been carefully arranged, they form pixelated images of iconic stars l

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Italian artist Fabio D'Altilia, created a fun set that will make you look twice at each image. In particular, D'Altilia addresses multistable perception, which is the tendency for us to go back and forth between two or more interpretations. As seen in the Rubin's vase, our eyes seem to want to conjure up one image and we must all concentrate just a little bit harder to see the other one.