Tomory Dodge is an American painter renown for his very large abstract paintings. Tomory Dodge was born in Denver, Colorado in the year 1974.
Dodge attended the Rhode Island School of Design located in Providence, Rhode Island earning a B.F.A in painting. The artist went on to earn a M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts located in Valencia, California.
In this clip a short lecture giving by Tomory Dodge at the Otis College located in Los Angeles, California:
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Dodge was given a grant as an M.F.A. student from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Below a brief interview with the artist from 2014:
Dodge is now based out of Los Angeles, California.
Tomory Dodge has created a wonderful and more abstract style in his later works. His later works with their bold and thick paint might appear as if the just created them spontaneously, but most of his large scale works takes months of painting to complete.
Lenny Kravitz is a American rock and roll legend who also enjoys the medium of photography. Kravitz recently had a book of his photography published. He also showed his works in a gallery setting for the first time.
In this clip we head to Los Angeles, California to view a show dealing with the photographs of Lenny Kravitz:
The artist also worked with Leica camera helping to develop “the Correspondent” camera. Its a very limited camera edition with only 125 of the cameras available for sale.
Kravitz has a very unique view point on photography since he is constantly photographed by fans and celebrity photographers. The title of his book of photography is called flash.
Price range: The book can be found for around $40 on Amazon.
Always great to see a star in one medium try their chance on a new and entirely different medium.
Alex Israel is an contemporary American Pop artist who works with themes of the culture of Hollywood. Â Alex Israel was born in Los Angeles, California in the year 1982. Israel is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist.
Israel earned a B.F.A. from Yale University. The artist went on to earn a M.F.A. from the University of Southern California based out of
The artist is part of the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Artist.
Below a great interview with Alex Israel:
Price range information: The artist works with acrylics on very large surfaces. Works range from $250,000 to $1,000, 000.
Israel has been part of exhibitions in the United States and Europe.
What I enjoy most about Alex Israel is his use of color.
Chris Burden was an American sculptor, conceptual, and performance artist who got shot and nailed to a car all for art! Chris Burden was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the year 1946.
In one of his best acclaimed series of performance art Chris Burden takes over television. Back in the beginning days of television it didn’t seem a regular person could appear on tube and its 3 channels.
Burden actually bought air time and challenged the idea of local programming. Here are his commercials from the 1970s that actually appeared on tv!:
The artist attended Pomona College located in Claremont, California earning a B.F.A. Burden also attended the University of California at Irvine where he earned a M.F.A. and studied with abstract artist Robert Irwin.
Burden often included architecture and bridges in his artwork.
Burden also enjoyed creating large metropolis cities that were similar to Los Angeles out of model toys and cars.
In this clip we see Chris Burden get shot. The artist grew up during the violent periods of the 1960s and Vietnam war. Here we witness Chris Burden get shot in the left arm by his assistant.:
Chris Burden passed away in May of 2015 at the age of 69.
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Below we catch up with artistic amigo James Kalm. We visit a show featuring Chris Burden and his famous piece titled the Big Wheel from a show that took place in 2013:
Burden was a fascinating artist capable of working in any medium. I enjoy his film works from the 1960s and 1970s the most. With the use of 8mm and 16mm film these works have wonderful home movie feel to them.
The artist has been very success in his commercial ventures. He has helped to design apparel and watches.
Its interesting to see the different portrayals of the mouth and lips in art. Some other artists who came up with some great designs include Andy Warhol and the photographer Marilyn Minter.
Audrey Kawasaki is an American street artist renown for her work with the female face and figure. Kawasaki attended the Pratt Institute located in New York City.
In this great clip we view Audrey Kawasaki at work on a piece:
Price range information: Sorry none available for originals. From time to time archival prints can be found for around $100.
Below a wonderful montage of works by Kawasaki:
The artist is based out of Los Angeles, California.
I really enjoy the artist’s style of painting the female face and figure on wood. Her backgrounds are very abstract since she paints on wood and lets this pattern be seen. The artist reminds me of Swoon although Kawasaki’s character’s being overtly more sexual.
Risk is a veteran American street artist renown for his work with the alphabet. Risk(y) is based out of Los Angeles, California.
Risk’s government name is Kelly Graval.
Risk attended the Pasadena Art Institute and also the University of Southern California.
As a veteran Risk was among the first graffiti artists to have very successful gallery shows. He took this experience and started his own clothing line with his artwork as the focus.
In this clip the artist Risk talks about his development as an artist:
The artist also has worked in Hollywood in various movie and music video sets.
In this clip we view a great work painted by Risk on a wall that provides optimism and hope for inmates:
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Its great to look back at the artist who were taggers and to see where we have come as far as the street art movement. One of my favorite street artists who works with letter form is the French artist Tilt. Tilt has been profiled here already, and uses his name or other words to make wonderful items including shoes, donuts, and flags.
Some call the artist Risk the godfather of graffiti, but I prefer to think of him as the great character from Harry Potter, Dumbledore! A distinguished gentleman at the height of his powers!
Cryptik is an American street artist who works often with the face and figure. The artist has worked with art his entire life, but began to create his own street art in 2008.
In this clip we view the artist at work on a new public piece:
Tristan Eaton is an American street artist renown for his work with patterns and the human face and figure. Tristan Eaton was born in Los Angeles, California in the year 1978.
Tristan Eaton is based out of Los Angeles, California. The artist is influenced by comic books, the skateboard culture, and the graffiti culture.
In this clip we view the artist at work at piece from February of 2015:
Below a link to the website of the artist. Many murals are shown here:
In addition to painting wonderful murals for us to enjoy Tristan Eaton is also a toy designer. Here we visit his studio and catch a glimpse of some figures he designed. The artist has worked with the toy producer Kidrobot:
I love the design aspect of this artists work. He includes patterns and abstract designs that remind me of the way Chuck Close depicts the face. Very abstract but yet real at the same time.
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