Joyce Tenneson
Angel and Lit Wings - 2016
Archival Pigment Photograph
30 × 24 in, 76.2 × 61 cm
Joyce Tenneson (born in Weston, Massachusetts on May 29, 1945) is an American fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women. Tenneson earned her master's degree in photography from George Washington University after starting as a model for Polaroid. She left her job as a photography professor at 39, and moved from Washington to New York. Tenneson shoots primarily with the Polaroid 20x24 camera. As a child, her parents worked on the grounds of a convent, which is where she grew up with her two sisters. She and her sister "were enlisted to be in holiday pageants and processions. It was a mysterious environment - something out of Fellini - filled with symbolism, ritual, beauty, and also a disturbing kind of surreal imagery." Tenneson moved from Manhattan to Rockport, Maine in 2004.
Her work has been displayed in more than 100 exhibitions around the world.[4] Tenneson has had cover images on several magazines including Time, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Premiere, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. More on Joyce Tenneson
Thomas Bijen (b. 1980)
Devotion
Stained glass fresco
An iconic artwork of two women, emblazoned across a stained crimson and turquoise-blue glass layer. The shot mimics a portrait style photograph, taboo in its insistence of evoking religious imagery. Are these two women lovers? Sisters? Although the connection is brief, the mystery of their touch endures. More on this painting
Thomas Bijen (1980) is a Dutch Artist. For the past ten years he has been living and working from his studio in The Hague, The Netherlands. In 2007 Thomas acquired his Masters of Science in Industrial Design Engineering at the Technical University of Delft. Coming from a diverse background originating in the creative technical sciences, the arts have always been his prime interest.
More recently, he has been commissioned to create his art live to the public, through murals and large art objects. For Thomas, creating art is an expression of his quest for mystery, playfulness and innocence, in which he strives to recapture his childhood days. More on Thomas Bijen
Jessica van Haselen
Higher Power I
Photographic Print
Private collection
The pose is commanding as the strong arms self-embrace. Her head looks up as if uniting with a higher power while her eyes are closed to underline the spiritual connection and release from reality.
Jessica van Haselen is a Dutch designer and artist originally from a small town in the Netherlands. A deep interest in foreign cultures, languages, and countries has led her to travel and live all over the world. Her style developed as she absorbed these cultures, translating her experience into the visual medium. Originally trained as a master goldsmith, her work always contains a high level of precision, detail, and technique. Later studying Interactive Media Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and Art History at the University of Amsterdam, she likes to combine new and unconventional digital media into her artwork while focusing on the story and historical significance that inspires each work. More on Jessica van Haselen
Frantisek Drtikol
Woman crucified , 1913
Gelatin silver print on bromide paper
22 x 16.4 cm. ( 8 ¾ x 6 ½ in.)
Private collection
František Drtikol (3 March 1883, Příbram – 13 January
1961, Prague) was a Czech photographer of international renown. He
is especially known for his characteristically epic photographs, often nudes
and portraits.
He had
his own studio, until 1935 where he operated an important portrait photostudio
in Prague. Drtikol made many portraits of very important people and nudes which
show development from pictorialism and symbolism to modern composite pictures
of the nude body with geometric decorations and thrown shadows, where it is
possible to find a number of parallels with the avant-garde works of the
period.
He began using paper cut-outs in a period he called
"photopurism". These photographs resembled silhouettes of the human
form. Later he gave up photography and concentrated on painting. After the
studio was sold Drtikol focused mainly on painting, Buddhist religious and
philosophical systems. In the final stage of his photographic work Drtikol
created compositions of little carved figures, with elongated shapes,
symbolically expressing various themes from Buddhism. In the 1920s and 1930s,
he received significant awards at international photo salons. More
on František Drtikol
Iva Troj, United Kingdom
What Noah Forgot
Acrylic on Sound.
15.7 H x 23.6 W x 0.4 in
Iva Troj seamlessly incorporates her vast
experience of traditional painting techniques with postmodern elements to
create engaging Renaissance-style works that challenge the notion of societal
conformity. Born in Bulgaria, based in Scandinavia and the UK, Troj creates
work originating fundamentally in the crossing of two realities: the one she
grew up in and the one she has embraced.
“I’ve been told I have artistic talents since I was a
little girl. The problem was I spent most of my time worrying about the meaning
of it all. I grew up in a rough neighborhood, in the outskirts of Plovdiv. At
times it felt like the whole place was full of violent men. My family was very
strict, loving and protective of me so I managed to keep my head above water. More on Iva Troj
MPUMELELO “LAYZIEHOUND” COKA
A mere Nephilim (Fallen from grace), 2017
Mixed media on canvas
39 3/5 × 28 1/10 in, 100.5 × 71.5 cm
Private collection
Mpumelelo “Layziehound” Coka. South African, Bilanyoni A, Frischgewaagd, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, based in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
His work seems to be a social commentary of sorts, but perhaps what works best is his loose mark-making and almost direct use of paint. The influence of graffiti, which the artist has practised for many years, is evident. Yet he also employs methods of a pre-Renaissance drawing style, such as outlines, a certain flatness and symbolic colour.
He uses signs; incisive line and figures that convey emotional discord. Text sometimes is included and adds to the drama, a sense of a system that is failing or that has failed. It appears that such a failing may be because of a drive for power, coercive force and ideological and institutional might. More on Mpumelelo “Layziehound” Coka.
MPUMELELO “LAYZIEHOUND” COKA
The Devil made me do it, c. 2017
Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
51 1/5 × 47 in, 130 × 119.5 cm
Private collection
MPUMELELO “LAYZIEHOUND” COKA
She makes salvation scream, c. 2017
Mixed media on canvas
54 9/10 × 50 2/5 in
139.5 × 128 cm
Private collection
PAUL INSECT
Psychedelic Saints, c. 2012
Acrylic and gold leaf on panel
14 1/5 × 11 in, 36 × 28 cm
Private collection
Paul Insect is UK street artist, who is most famous for his 2007 solo show Bullion exhibition at London's Art gallery, Lazarides Gallery. Damien Hirst is reported to be a fan of Insect, having purchased the show days before it opened. Insect, who also goes by the name of PINS, worked alongside artist Banksy at the Cans Festival, the Santa's Ghetto project in Bethlehem, and on the separation wall in Palestine.
Insect is well known for his collective named 'insect' which started in 1996, and disbanded in 2005. Insect held an exhibition at London's Kings Cross area in 2008 in partnership with Lazarides Gallery.
Insect created the artwork for San Francisco-based hip hop producer DJ Shadow's 2006 The Outsider album More on Paul Insect
PAUL INSECT
Psychedelic Saints, c. 2012
Acrylic and gold leaf on panel
14 1/5 × 11 2/5 in, 36 × 29 cm
Private collection
PAUL INSECT
Psychedelic Saints, c. 2012
Acrylic and gold leaf on panel
13 4/5 × 11 in, 35 × 28 cm
Private collection
GEE VAUCHER, b. 1945
Our Father (Gold)
Screenprint in colours
19 7/10 × 27 3/5 in, 50 × 70 cm
Private collection
Gee Vaucher is a visual artist who was born in 1945 in Dagenham, Essex. Her work with Anarcho-punk band Crass was ovular to the 'protest art' of the 1980s. Vaucher has always seen her work as a tool for social change, and has expressed her strong anarcho-pacifist and feminist views in her paintings and collages. Vaucher also uses surrealist styles and methods.
She continues to design sleeves for Babel Label, and also designed the sleeve for The Charlatans (English band)' Who We Touch album. Vaucher has exhibited at the 96 Gillespie gallery in London. In 2007 and 2008 the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco and Track 16 in Santa Monica ran exhibitions entitled "Gee Vaucher: Introspective", showing a wide selection of Vaucher's work.
In 2016, Vaucher was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex. More on Gee Vaucher
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