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Penguin July 5th, 2010

Portraits of my students.

Francis

Kadera

Linda

Yassin

Amina

Rufia

Fatuma

Abib

Shaban

Osman

Rosemary

Riziki

Kigan

Julius

Michael

Lucas & Jeremy

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Tags: Kenya 2010, Missions, Photography, Portraits, Trips

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Ninja October 28th, 2009

To commemorate Septime Webre’s 10th anniversary as The Washington Ballet’s Artistic Director, photographer Cade Martin has collaborated with Design Army and TWB to create a spell-binding book, Wonderland. Wonderland follows over fifty dancers and gives readers intimate portraits of life backstage.

Cade Martin’s clients include The Discovery Channel, Marriott, The National Geographic Society, and National Public Radio.

Related link
+ Cade Martin’s portfolio

Purchasing link
+ The Washington Ballet’s Wonderland book, $55.00

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Ninja September 29th, 2009

After discovering a forgotten photo album in a Venice Beach thrift shop, Kozyndan were inspired to create their own set of fictitious characters complete with quirky narratives. The Unknown Portraits solo exhibition is on display at the Narwhal Art Projects.

When
October 1 – October 25, 2009
Opening reception: October 1, from 6 – 10 PM
Signing: 6 – 8 PM

Where
Narwhal Art Projects
680 Queen St. West
Toronto, On, Canada M6J 1E5

Kuro-chan’s return, 2005
graphite on paper
2.5 x 3.75 in

Pussy with the Sexy Pussy, 2005
graphite on paper
2.5 x 3.75 in

Boobeedoo, 2006
graphite on paper
3.75 x 2.5 in

My Better Half, 2006
graphite on paper
2.5 x 3.75 in

The Ladies of the Lockes, 2009
graphite on paper
2.5 x 3.75 in

The Unknown Portraits accompanying 150-page hardcover book includes contributions from Pasha Malla, Mark “frosty” McNeill, Ryan Sands, Porous Walkerm Nick Flanagan, Mariko Tamaki, and Maggie MacDonald.

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Tags: Books, Canada, Exhibitions, Graphite, Kozyndan, Narwhal Art Projects, Portraits, Signings, The Unknown Portraits, Toronto

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Ninja September 24th, 2009

Timothy Hon Hung Lee’s pieces are typically black and white and feature delicate, sensual female figures and highly-detailed plant life. So I was surprised when he showed me his latest painting depicting a wounded man in color!

Farewell my mourning bird, 2009
Chinese inks on rice paper
80cm x 70cm

Related links
+ View more of Timothy Hon Hung Lee’s artwork
+ Read Timothy Hon Hung Lee’s blog

Purchasing link
+ Illusive 2: Contemporary Illustration and Its Context, $43.47

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Tags: Die Gestalten Verlag, Figure drawing, Illusive 2, Illustration, ink, Portraits, Timothy Hon Hung Lee

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Ninja September 18th, 2009

Wispy, luminous, and waif-like, the portraits in HelloVon’s Semblance show at Cerasoli Gallery gaze openly at viewers with the curiosity and allure of striking strangers with whom fantastic adventures may be possible. Engaging, beautiful, and tantalizingly untouchable, Von’s subjects seem born from a malleable reality, perhaps composed while amiably daydreaming. The drawings in Semblance are indicative of Von’s fascination with image construction, form, distortion and the process of drawing itself.

When
September 19 – October 14, 2009
Opening reception: September 19, 2009

Where
Cerasoli Gallery
8530-B Washington Blvd,
Culver City CA 90232

Admission
RSVP: contact@cerasoligallery.com

Here’s a sneak peek:

Semblance 01, 2009
Pencil and Graphite on Rives BFK 300gsm
16.5″ x 23.4

Semblance 02, 2009
Pencil and Graphite on Rives BFK 300gsm
22″ x 29.7″

Semblance 03, 2009
Pencil and Graphite on Rives BFK 300gsm
16.5″ x 23.4″

Semblance 04, 2009
Pencil and Graphite on Rives BFK 300gsm
22″ x 29.7″

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Tags: California, Cerasoli Gallery, Culver City, Exhibitions, Graphite, Hellovon, Portraits, Semblance

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Ninja May 18th, 2009

Love is patient is an algorithmic collage created by Santiago Ortiz. You really need to see it in motion to get the full effect! Ortiz uses the Voronoi tessellation algorithm to collage photographs from Kelly Castro’s Exteriors portrait series.

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Tags: Algorithms, Collages, Exteriors, Kelly Castro, Love is patient, Photography, Portraits, Santiago Ortiz, Voronoi tessellation

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Ninja May 14th, 2009

Desiree Dolron is a photographer hailing from Haarlem, Netherlands. In her ongoing portrait series, Xteriors, she pays homage of the Flemish Primitives and Johannes Vermeer. Her photographs can be viewed at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

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Ninja May 6th, 2009

Former forensic artist, Shawn Feeney, is working on drawing 64 facial composite images of 64 pairs of best friends (he started in November 2007 and is up to the 35th pair now). Next up, a series of composites from the composites—32 drawings combining four faces each, 16 drawings combining eight faces each, and so on until finally there is one drawing derived from all 128 faces. Participants include people from across the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, and China.

Erin and Lizzy

Allison and Noah

Christopher and Edgar

Shane and Andy

Here is a clip that shows how Shawn goes about combining the faces of two friends for the BFF project. The drawing is done in charcoal on 8.5×11″ Stonehenge paper.

Related links
+ See more of Shawn Feeney’s composite BFF portraits
+ Browse through Shawn Feeney’s digital sketchbook

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Tags: BFF project, Composite, Graphite, Portraits, Process, Shawn Feeney

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Ninja April 21st, 2009

Michel Gondry will personally sketch and sign your portrait based off of the photo that you submit via email. You can commission your’s here.

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Ninja March 18th, 2009

Talia Greene is a multi-media artist who incorporates photography, digital printing, drawing, and sewing in her work. She received her BA with departmental honors in art from Wesleyan University in 1998 and her MFA from Mills College in 2002. She will be exhibiting in upcoming shows at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg, PA, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, and the Sonoma Museum of Visual Art.

In Talia’s print series entitled, Coiffed: A Typology of Entropic Variations, altered cabinet cards reference the urge to control nature, and its futility, with a playful exaggeration of the quotidian frustration of taming our hair. In each portrait, the hair takes on a life of its own in the form of a swarm of flies. It grows; runs wild; starts to conform; then runs wild once more. With each new hairstyle, the sitter takes on a new identity. Even as we try to impose our will on nature, nature imposes its anarchy on us.

detail

Related link
+ View more of Talia Greene’s work here

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