Tatiana Suarez

Erik Jones

Casey Wheldon

This weekend, the Spoke Art gallery will be participating and exhibiting artworks at two fine art fairs in San Francisco – ArtPad SF and ArtMrkt San Francisco.

The exhibits will include new and recent works by the following  artists: Alessandra Maria, Casey Weldon, Dan Speight, Derek Weisberg, Crystal Wagner, Erik Jones, Jessica Hess, Joel Daniel Phillips, Scott Hove, Soey Milk, Tatiana Suarez.

Spoke Art will also have two new exclusive limited edition prints by Scott Scheidly and Erik Jones, at the shows.

Hit the jump to see some more images.

  Scott Scheidly

Soey Milk

Derek Weisberg

Alessandra Maria

Crystal Wagner

Joel Phillips

Erik Jones

Jessica Hess

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“Wireless Dog Walking,” an illustration contributed to the JazJaz Flickr Pool by Hatem Aly, a superb Egyptian-born illustrator who is currently based in Bathurst, Canada.

You can visit his website to see more of his illustrations and other artwork.

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Marco Mahler (previously), an artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon, has released a new collection of kinetic sculptures on his site, which were created in a collaborative effort with Henry Segerman, a research fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Mahler claims that these are the first fully 3D printed mobile sculptures in the world.

Made out of laser sintered nylon plastic – one of the most popular materials used for 3D printing – the intricately designed mobiles come out of the printers in a completely assembled state, and are heatproof up to 80 °C / 176 °F.

More about the making process:

The balance points for these mobiles were calculated to 1/1000th of a millimeter (1/25360th of an inch). The models for some of these mobiles were drawn up “by hand”, others were created utilizing scripts that we wrote. Some of the mobiles, like Mobile 4.2, are designed with a very small increase or decrease in thickness from one part to the next, something that is not possible to do with conventional handmade mobiles. Utilizing scripts also allows for designs that would be very time consuming to make by hand, such as the Quaternary Tree (Level 6), which has 1365 pieces.

You can buy these kinetic sculptures at their Shapeways online store, for prices ranging from $10 to $600.

Here are a few more images of the sculptures.

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A stunningly-surreal street mural by Telmo & Miel (NSFW), an artistic duo based in the Netherlands.

[via Lustik]

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A stop-motion animated short film about the history of fonts and typography, by Ben Barrett. The video was created using 291 paper letters and 2,454 photographs over a 140 hour period.

Link to the video on Vimeo.

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Lena Matveichuk is a Saint Petersburg, Russia-based illustrator, painter, and designer. She says that she likes to draw and create different characters, and adds that she makes them more complete by using her thoughts and feelings which arise in her mind during the process.

Check out a few select illustrations from her portfolio, after the jump.

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The Black Arrow (NSFW) not only collaborated with music artist Dpat to create the upcoming LP track, “In Bloom,” but also designed its gorgeous album cover.

Visit his site to see more of his album covers (NSFW).

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Illustrator Chet Phillips’ tribute to uber-nerd Sheldon Cooper’s drab, but ultimately hilarious outpourings in “The Big Bang Theory” sitcom, is part of his series of prints based on brigands, nerds and dread pirates from TV shows and movies.

[via Laughing Squid]

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Acrylic and embroidery on bonding tissue 113 x 103 cm

An abstract mixed media piece from the Neblina eo Barulho do Vento (noise of the fog and wind) series, by the always extraordinary André Azevedo (previously), an artist from Curitaba, Brazil.

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“Toomuch,” a six layer stencil on cardboard, contributed to the JazJaz Flickr Pool by street artist Anopsy (website).

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Limited in an edition of 10, 20” x 30” Giclee prints of the work are available at the artist’s Etsy Store.

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Lithuanian winters can be notoriously harsh, with temperatures sometimes falling below –25 C. The people of the country, who were already depressed due to six months of cold weather, were really crushed when mid-April only brought more snow.

New!, a Lithuanian ad agency, decided to cheer up the people by running an outdoor poster campaign (in collaboration with outdoor experts JC Decaux) in the capital city of Vilnius. Titled “Good things – coming soon,” the upbeat posters announce that summer would be soon be coming along, and with it the promise of warm sunshine, sandy beaches, less clothes, more berries, and brighter colors.

The ongoing campaign is being well received, with calls coming from places like Luxembourg to share the posters. It’s quite heartwarming to know that though these posters were created by an ad agency, there are no logos, nor any products or services being advertised.

Here are a few more images from the campaign.

The crew:
New!
Creative director: Tomas Ramanauskas
Illustration: Lina Vysniauskaite
Design: Lina Marcinonyte

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Ryan McArthur, an artist based in Toronto, Canada, makes these beautifully-minimalist illustrations based on the pithiest quotations of some of history’s most original and famous thinkers.

Prints of his quotes are available at his Etsy store.

Hit the jump to see more illustrations.

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The infamous bounty hunter from “Star Wars” looks just at home in the harsh, yet beautiful terrain of Iceland, in this photo-project by Mr. Wink from Rocket & Wink, a creative team based in Hamburg, Germany.

Here are a few more images from the project.

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Screen print by Joshua Budich

Painting by Jonathan Bergeron

The Spoke Art gallery held a successful multi-artist art show tribute in NYC to the films of Martin Scorsese, one of the greatest film directors of our times. Acknowledging Scorsese’s decades-old, deep connection with the Big Apple, the San Francisco-based gallery had opted to bring the show to NYC, this past weekend.

To help those of us who were unable to attend the show, the gallery will be putting up paintings, prints and sculptures from the show on sale at 5 P.M. (PST), April 26th, via their online store.

You can checkout some select illustrations and paintings from the show, after the jump.

Screen print by Grzegorz Domaradzki

Art print by Ibraheem Youssef

Painting by Rich Pellegrino

Painting by Andrew Spear

  Screen print by Alexander Iaccarino

Hand cut stencils by Epyon5

Screen print by Brian Ewing

 Screen print by Jessica Deahl

 Fine art print by Max Dalton

Fine art print by Oliver Blake

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