The bright and col­or­ful works of Mis­aki Kawai intrigued and excited me. I wanted to know more about her instal­la­tion, sculp­tures and draw­ings. Via Rove TV, I learned that: Like many other ado­les­cent Japan­ese girls, she [Mis­aki] was influ­enced by west­ern pop cul­ture to a fanat­i­cal degree. She was greatly fas­ci­nated with 60’s fash­ion and ...

Oli-B is a Belgium-based street artist. He loves the hus­tle and bus­tle of large crowds and the urban land­scape, which is evi­dent in his work. In his street work, he arranges groups of char­ac­ters and places, with an almost visual over­load of shapes and sat­u­rated colors. There are eyes always watch­ing you. A bit eerie, ...

Ear­lier in the week I received an email from a reader (thanks, Laura!) sug­gest­ing I take a look at the work of Archann Nair. While his work I wouldn’t have sought out, his use of color and orga­nized chaos is really compelling. There is a lot of move­ment to Archan’s work, and it is really ...

Allie Rex is an artist who cre­ates draw­ing instal­la­tions from mylar, paint, ink, pen­cils, vinyl and pins. Her col­or­ful instal­la­tions are col­or­ful and extremely detailed, and make use of a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent textures. Allie’s work is a com­bi­na­tion of relief cuts, large shapes, and small, intri­cate details. From this comes a very nice bal­ance ...

Carla Barth is a Brazil­lian artist whose col­or­ful, graphic style trans­lates to not only paint­ings, but to street art and 3D objects. Her work has a psy­che­delic qual­ity to it — it’s not quite of this world, but incor­po­rates ele­ments from it. It’s col­or­ing is bright and con­trast­ing, the char­ac­ters are sur­real, and the entire ...

Judy Pfaff cre­ates beau­ti­ful, mul­ti­fac­eted works that reflect directly what is going on in her life and her reac­tion to it. Judy uses a vari­ety of mate­ri­als that make her work sculp­tural and site-specific. Her use of things like string, cut paper, and paint in her draw­ings is what has really cap­tured my eye. I love ...

Wil­son Hsu doesn’t have a par­tic­u­larly strong online pres­ence (from what I can tell), but man, does he make some great images. Upon view­ing, I instantly became enam­ored with the envi­ron­ment that Wil­son sets up. The world is a mix­ture of robots, myth­i­cal crea­tures, and gen­eral anthro­po­mor­phiz­ing. The hills are alive and while they can’t ...

Michael Velli­quette has cre­ated an aston­ish­ing paper world. It is bright, impres­sive in size, and extremely detailed. The metic­u­lous­ness in his work is unmatched of any­thing I’ve really seen. The way that Michael’s pieces hang on the wall remind me of masks and almost pieces of a totem pole. The amount of paper actu­ally cut ...

Upon view­ing Catell Ronca’s work, it is obvi­ous that she has quite a bit to say. She does so in bold, loud col­ors and expres­sive gestures. Catell illus­trates for a vari­ety of sub­ject mat­ters and has book cov­ers, food illus­tra­tion, children’s books, and even stamps in her port­fo­lio. The nice thing about her work is ...

Simon Wild is an illus­tra­tor work­ing in Suf­folk, Eng­land. His work is bold, col­or­ful, active yet not over­whelm­ing. He has worked on chil­drens’ books, pri­vate com­mis­sions, and par­tic­i­pated in gallery shows. I enjoy the push and pull that is in his work. Simon often uses bright col­ors cou­pled with mul­ti­ple pat­terns and sub­ject mat­ter. To ...