SPAIN
suckerPUNCH: describe your project
drfranken: Nastplas is a studio of digital art illustration and Madrid (Spain). We all create pictures with different techniques such as Airbrush, 3D, Fractal Art, matte painting, vector art. Demeter is our latest project. The idea was to create an illustration with a natural essence and delicate basing on the natural environment. In this project we worked several weeks to achieve the end result we wanted.
istanbul TURKEY
suckerPUNCH:describe your project:
zeynep bb. HARUNOGLU : we are an istanbul based design company, developing projects and manufacturing products in collaboration with graphic artists and illustrators. pag playing cards is our latest project. the idea is creating a brand of good designed collectible playing cards as an alternative interpretation to the traditional decks. this is as an ongoing project where a new deck will be designed every six months by various graphic artists and illustrators worldwide.
london ENGLAND
after graduating from central saint martins with a degree in graphic design, yehrin TONG designed artwork for independent music labels, working with artists she met while regularly haunting the underground club scene of london.
her main interests lie in creating illusory, eye-boggling patterns and typographical illustration. work has encompassed billboards, taxi cabs, elaborate repeat patterns and embroidery prints for fashion, as well as typographic cover and editorial illustrations.
yehrin’s work is complex and intricate. simple and minimal rarely come into her vocabulary.
new york NEW YORK
computer arts: my impression is that you love imagery from nature and imaginary settings. how would you describe your own approach and visual style?
deanne CHEUK: i do love nature and fantasy, so a lot of my personal work has those themes. when i’m approached for commercial work, often the client refers back to work that they’ve seen somewhere and then it ends up having some of that nature or fantasy element in it again. that is basically how it all comes about!
tokyo JAPAN
“2010 frantic underlines” supports the radical changes that are happening just now in the contemporary japanese art scene. we observe the decline of the despotic empire of the “wonderland”-style art and consequent unfolding of a plurality of new dimensions in contemporary art. we stand now at a crossroad that could lead in multiple directions. we see art that exists in parallel to the bubbled surface of the superflat–micropop history. we foresee new exhibitions that are based on contemplation and consciousness, not the empty self-obliterating hedonism of amusement parks. we make 2,010 frantic underlines to mark one of starting line for the art of the future and to provide vectors that lead to those artists who have actually always been here.
image: cosmos sulphureus by macoto MURAYAMA
new york NEW YORK
opening for nicholas DI GENOVA’s solo show
thursday feb 4th, 6-8pm
fredericks and freiser Gallery
536 W 24th Street
new york new york
brussels BELGIUM
apostolos MITSIOS: what is the working process that is hidden behind your creations?
geraldine GEORGES: i don’t have a secret process. i just mix collage/cutting of pictures with drawing made with a rotring, trying to inspire a certain feeling and emotion to it. i put everything together and i try to find the perfect balance and purity. i don’t like over-ornated and loud work. i like simple, clear and direct things…there is no need to overdo.
photograph by france DUBOIS
new york NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
leah RAINTREE: excerpts / the incredible machine is an ongoing drawing series that re-imagines mechanics of the human body. referencing an antiquated anatomy book of the same title, descriptive images and text are sampled to invoke complex but unreal systems for sustaining life. organic and technological elements work in tandem as these systems develop and adapt over time.
toronto CANADA
the work of chow martin renders surfaces of skin and fur as detailed muscular armatures. nested lines vary in scale in order to create sophisticated variations in differentiation that flow effortlessly along their surfaces. this brother duo comprised of sean and colin chow combine their talents through ink on paper to create intricate compositions that are now infiltrating everything from typography to wallpaper.
front range COLORADO
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
oscar WOODRUFFthis is an ongoing project that i’m basing multiple bodies of work upon. it’s a contemplation on the idea of a universal organism. the current focal point being; the evolution of the natural world. also, the role of the human mind and technology is a keynote . it is a series of visual metaphors, extremely futurist in their thinking they attempt to represent the evolution of technology as a complex and intelligent organism in a worldwide and perhaps universal system that goes beyond organic being.
