John Stezaker

Stezaker is a contemporary artist from England. Excerpt from Wikipedia:

“His work is surreal in tone and is often made using collage and the appropriation of pre-existing images such as postcards, film stills, and publicity photographs.^[2] Art historian Julian Stallabrass said, “The contrast at the heart of these works [by Stezaker] is not between represented and real, but between the unknowing primitives of popular culture, and the conscious, ironic artist and viewer of post-modern images.”^[3] One work included in an exhibition at Salama-Caro Gallery, London, in 1991, depicted an image of a punch clock together with the caption “Why Spend Time On An Exhibition Like This?”^[4] Colin Gleadell wrote in The Daily Telegraph in 2007 that Stezaker “is now being hailed as a major influence on the Young British Art movement.”^[2]”

These early 1900’s photographs compositioned with postcards are an interesting exploration into form.

Wataru Yoshida

Yoshida doesn’t have a working website so I don’t know much about him. This series called “A composition of Mammals” is an interesting exploration into form. 

Yumiko Utsu

“Combining the intricate techniques of food photography with the anthropomorphic tendencies of manga, Utsu has an affinity for kitsch. But instead of taking a strictly documentary approach to the Japanese relationship with food and the natural world, she uses fruit, vegetables, and seafood to construct surreal fantasies populated by kittens with octopus eyes, pineapples full of owls, and phallic carrots. But by using the visceral, perishable products of nature to reinvent such imagery Utsu goes further, undermining the antiseptic values of the genre, pricking its glossy surface with a shudder of amused repulsion. By exposing the strangeness of manga’s visual strategies she also reveals our complex relationship to the natural world and to our own bodies - at once sensual and comic, tinged by eroticism, disgust, and desire.” -http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/02/yumiko-utsu.php

She is a surreal artist working with perishable mediums. She uses form in her work to create a sense of static.

Miriam Sweeney

There is virtually no information about this artist. I like how she plays with silhouettes to create abstract forms of her subject. This image is from her series “Subversion”. Also, ponies. 

Mathew Woodson AKA Ghostco

“Fresh out of school Matthew was commissioned by Margeotes, Fertitta & Partners New York to illustrate the Perry Ellis Fall/Winter 2006 campaign, and has been working as a fulltime freelance illustrator ever since” - A few words from his bio.

His works have pretty simple use of colour, form and line but its very expressive. The work is generally pretty emotive which I think is an achievement because of its simplicity.

Duane Hanson

I am posting this for his series of sculpture “Uncanny Realities”. I am working with sculpture this semester and I would like to create realistic works. These are really impressive. 

Derek Hudson

Amazing photographer. The composition, light and exposure are perfect in all of his works. Also, ponies. 

Myeongbeom Kim

I couldn’t find imformation on whether the taxidermy in this artists work is ethically sourced. This artist plays with form by mixing nature in with man made items and unnatural objects. 

Veronique Pecheux

Contemporary artist from France mixing man made with natural materials and lanscapes to create interesting forms and compositional photographs. 

Lucy & Bart 

Really interesting work that plays with form with the human body.

From their bio “LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.”