I tend to throw the word versatile around a lot, since many of the artists featured here are multi-talented and I am more drawn towards mixed media artworks. However in Steven Riddle’s case I think the word is even more fitting, since the Baltimore-based artist not only varies in the medium he uses (from painting on wooden panels or canvas to mixed media collages) but also in his style.Recently he has gone from using an abundance of bright neon-like colours, to only using three. I took a particular interest in his black and white pieces, which give a more beautifully bareboned vision of his style.

“Essentially it’s made up of a combination of failed starts. And this is a process that I really embrace — this idea that there’s really no way to fail because I can recycle ideas and use them in another piece. That’s what makes this particular piece a strong one for me, because it’s a combination of all these failed starts. You just take the best parts of the failures and build a new piece up.”

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Gabe Gonzales uses a variety techniques, including risograph and silkscreen prints, to render chaotic and lively visual art. Gabe also runs a brilliant little publishing co with some friends, entitled Never Press. They’ll soon be publishing a comic by Michael Olivo, featured here recently.

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It seems Cedric Jean Pierre Pradel and I share a fascination with masks, and the potentially transformative appearance they can give to someone, sometimes with only the slightest of elements.

“I find it fascinating how someone can literally or figuratively put on a mask, be able to express themselves and therefore to be able to reveal so much more. Therefore it has this melancholic idea to it that I feel very attracted to. This is also something that I practice through Jean Poodle. He is my escape at times, times when all I want to do is celebrate life and all the fun things that it has to offer“!

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Pic of The Day:

Brittany Markert

Got a nice tip from Berlin-based cultural-events organizer, blogger and friend Jasmin Falk who got to meet and see artist Awer creating some of his mind-bending wall pieces. “From walls to paper my style speaks about natural life VS robot life, with a contemporary world influence, all is made with a psychedelic flavour just for trick your mind! :)”

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pic of the day:

Jonas Loiske

Collaboration: Michael Olivo, Jesse Balmer & Niv Bavarsky

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Abstract, enigmatic and visually disconcerting collages by Ryan De La Hoz:

“I am interested in Halloween. The basis of it is similar to the Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico. The idea is that you are celebrating the gift of life from the dead. People go wild because they are happy to be alive. My Dad died in 2005 and ever since I have been analyzing the duality of life and death – love and loss – joy and misery. I use the skeleton glove to signify the remains of a person or society that is no longer. I have an affinity for the Reaper because my last name de la Hoz means “of the sickle,” and when I was little I attributed a sickle to the Grim Reaper’s scythe.”

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“I use the ladder to reflect on personal journeys whether that be entering or escaping from oppression.”

Kane Hopkin captures timeless beauty and strange symmetries in his portrait photography.

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pic of the day:

Ellena Simpson (in collaboration with Jay Bing)