Contemporary Artists - Post your favorites!

[JoshuaTheJames]

I'm thinking mainly outside the world of concept and illustration.


This Is Malcolm Liepke. I absolutely fell in love with his work.

Here are a couple links...

http://www.dianenelson.com/dnfagalle...liepkeshow.htm
http://www.buschlenmowatt.com/artists-liepke.html

-Joshua

[I.was.ink]

MAN!

that guy's stuff is great. I'll take a look at those links! I want to get together with you some day and pick your brain. I bet you know tons about so many artists.

I'll go look for some contemporarys I like!

-Iwasink-

[I.was.ink]

OMG!

I had to come back and post. His work is spectacular. Some of the faces remind me of leyendeckers stuff so much.

Did you see the prices he would sell some of those paintings for?:eek: Very well deserved though...

Thanks once again JTJ.

Do you have any more?

-Iwasink-

[ClocktowerArtworks]

Mark Ryden... www.markryden.com

don't feel right about posting his work here without permission...but definitely go to the site. disturbing, but beautiful stuff.

[strych9ine]

Nice links, guys. Joshua, that was a great find. I was just flipping through Ryden's book the other day and loved his work. If you pick up a copy of Juxtapoz you will see a host of artists trying to follow (a little too closely) in his footsteps.

You probably all know him, but he's to amazing to not mention.

Kent Williams

[mtw]

Wow. Malcolm Liepke is awesome.

[samwell]

Shawn Barber.
www.sdbarber.com
This Guy is a teacher at Ringling School of Art.
Check out the FAQ section on his site, lots of good stuff we all need to hear there.
He's an illustrator, but I think the title of "artist" definately applies.

Mike Hussar.
Mike Hussar is another guy. He paints some fantastic pieces. check this out. http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/pr...002/hussar.htm
If you live in the Pasadena Area, there is a few pieces of his hanging in a coffee shop off Colorado. The place is called The Equator, it's in the alley where Jake's is.

[gekitsu]

yoshitaka amano certainly has a high rank among my favs (www.amanosworld.com)

i always look at his work to remind me of sometimes say "fuck you" to rules

[jrr]

http://www.stevenassael.com/







http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/steven_assael.htm


I am jrr and I hereby promise the entire world that I will apply my painting talents to create works of beauty such as these. I will follow my true path internet socializing be damned. I will paint figures such as these. i will paint figures such as these. i will paint figures such as these.






heheheh -jm

[Redder]

I'm going to say Emek since I heard him give a talk this week.



http://www.emek.net

[apb]

One of many: Bill Mather

[Isric]

Thank you SO much for posting that Liepke stuff!
I fell in love with his stuff in first year (looking through 'Illustrator').

*sigh* amazing work

[wes9000]

Mark Ryden? ugh...

I like Hussar and Liepke quite a bit though too. I like Assael too, formally...i'm not crazy about his content though. I'd love to take a class with him though.


heres a few more to add to the list-


Gerhard Richter
more richter...

Jerome Witkin he's a bit harder to find work of online

Herbert Olds - I dont know of any of his work online

Ruprecht Von Kaufmann

Benjamin Edwards

Marc Trujillo

Brian O'Connor

Matthew Barney

Banksy

Lebbeus Woods

David Choe

Dave Kinsey

Steve Huston

Morseburg Galleries

Ralph Woehrman - my main instuctor...

Daniel Dove - another one of my instructors

George Kozmon



-wes

[Gunbu]

Here's one of my favorite illustrators.Daniel Adel

[JoshuaTheJames]

Wow,

This is beautiful everyone. I think this is going to be a great thread for us all.


-Joshua

[Redder]

Originally posted by Gunbu
Here's one of my favorite illustrators.Daniel Adel

Is it me or does Daniel Adel look like Mr. Smith?

[geoffd]

man mr. wes9000 i was looking at Marc Trujillo's pictures and was like "uh, where are the paintings? all i see is these photos.... then i clicked on one and it said 'oil on board' OMG WTF!!!!" wow... this is an awesome thread thanks JTJ and all contributors.

[OLSEN]

Andrew Gonzalez:
http://www.sublimatrix.com/

Odd Nerdrum:
http://www.nerdrum.com/

[*Kim-L*]

Great thread! I want to say thank you especially to Joshua for posting the links to Malcolm Liepke's works ... I never knew about them until now, and frankly, I've fallen in love with his work too. And Mike Hussar's stuff rock!

Anyways, my top fav contemporary artist has to be Katsuya Terada. The following are some pieces he made for X-Men Unlimited and Hellboy, and some from his various artbooks:

http://www.catsuka.com/interf/insoli..._unlimited.jpg (This one's pretty big.)




You can see more of his stuff here.

[JoshuaTheJames]

Thats a lot of quality Terada!

Great thread guys...

-Joshua

[theincredibleandy]

Yeah, Skip Liepke is pretty sweet, as well as many of these other people. Here's a few people:



this guy is Greg Swearingen. I am mighty impressed with his work, especially his colors. His originals are every bit as immaculate as his prints, too. Cool stuff. You can find him on shannonassociates.com

This guy's a fine artist named Claudio Bravo:





Paints everything from the life, and it shows! See his work on http://www.puc.cl/faba/ARTE/AUTORES/BravoObrasI.html

Lot of good art on this thread. Me want more!

[JoshuaTheJames]

Cool,

Thanks Andy, I forgot about that illustrator.

-Joshua

[Sketch]

Awesome thread guys! Sean Barber is amazing! I also love the charictures that Daniel Aden does. Beautiful!

[tinyhands]

everyone needs to at least see these artists:

Morgan Weistling(morganweistling.com): he is above and beyond one of the best fine-art painters on the planet. Hes the youngest person ever to win the prix de west, which hopefully everyone knows about. Regardless of subject matter, hes a genuis.

Daniel F. Gerhartz: Another amazing painter. Study with schmid for a while. Now he can outpaint him any day of the week.

Harley brown:harleysworkshop.com) Hands down the best pastellist in the world.

Richard schmid: He's a phenomenal draftsman, but looking at his stuff gets old quick.

John Asaro: great loose painter, amazing colorist.

There are many more, but these few are really gifted people. Its not concept art, or fantasy or comic stuff. This is just good ol' fashioned fine art at its best.

-tiny

[Jason Manley]

im in agreement with tiny...richard schmid is amazing.

[Jason Manley]

nelson shanks....cant deny the skill...try to make one of these...just once. lol...aint easy at all.


there used to be larger reproductions of this stuff on the net. i need to dig out my cds of paintings. cant find larger than this.

[Jason Manley]

richard maury aint half bad either. lol...anyone up for the challenge of pulling off oils like these? perhaps one of you have larger versions of these handy. Im on the laptop at the momento.

[Jason Manley]

cant forget about this one....sheesh

jenny saville

[Jason Manley]

bump

[davi]

Jeffery jones. A god among insects.