Andrew Hem

I'm not sure why I didn't post his work early on. I saw it but apparently forgot to save an image or jot down the website. well, anyway, Andrew Hem is an immensely talented artist somewhere in the neo-pop-surrealist-graffiti-illustrator genre. Ah, labels. Anyway, all you really have to do is look. He has a distinctive drawing vocabulary and a confident graphic painting approach, which he employs for very effective psychological portraiture. He's done a lot of work recently based on his travels and examining the crisis of being culturally adrift. You can see more work on his website: www.andrewhem.com
And even more plus some fine illustration work at magnetreps.com
And you can keep track of his latest news on his blog: idrewhim.blogspot.com











"City Street"






















"Slow"






















title unknown
















"Relax"

Marc Da Cunha Lopes

Marc Da Cunha Lopes is a commercial photographer/photoshop artist who has a curious little website. On it he displays some of his commercial work (which is very slick but, let's face it, very commercial) as well as some of what certainly appears to be his own personal work. If it isn't, then bravo to the client. The reason I am uncertain about this is that the website has nothing else on it BUT these images. No information on how to contact the artist. No statement or CV. Just some very strange compelling photography. There are several different series, including more images from the two themes represented here. There are is also flesh eating zombies, robot gigolos, a little girl and her giant rat friend, and more! If that doesn't at least get you to look then you may be a little too high brow for this blog.
www.marcdacunhalopes.com
















































































Thanks to Tunacan Jones at FHN for the heads up.

Kevin Bell

Kevin Bell takes a sly look at the modern American landscape. In one series of paintings entitled "Land-Object" he separates out fragments of land that are already broken up by man-made structures or boundaries. He points out that this is how we experience landscape; little plots and parts and parcels all jumbled up with, and broken apart by the made made structures that are so integrated into everything we see. His other paintings consider this fact as well, carefully depicting the more mundane and ubiquitous aspects of our contemporary environment. The hills and trees, the flat open plains and distant mountains exist only as backdrop to our car windshield, the rest stop toilet, or our sliding glass door. All of this is painted with a subdued palette that reminds me of haze and heat and a certain lethargy that seems, somehow, very appropriate to the disromantic point of view.
see more at his website: kevinjackbell.com














"Ditch" 45"x27" oil on canvas














"Mountain" 45"x26" oil on canvas




















"Banana" 19"x17"























"Rest Room" 28"x35"























"Transformer Fire" 26"x34"

Jim

Following in the grand tradition of one name celebrities like Bono, Björk, Cher, Dion, Dido, Enya, Fabio, Falco, Jewel, Moby, Nico, Pelé, Sinbad, Twiggy & Usher (to name a few) I would now like to present to you.... Jim.
Jim is the moniker of an artist who creates ornamental skulls, usually but not exclusively from twine and rope. His work draws on traditional arts from around the world as well as more contemporary arts, suggesting something vaguely religious, possibly ceremonial and to be honest, kind of trippy. I realize that this is not exactly in depth explication, but damn... just look at them. You have to admit that they are very, very cool.
You can see a lot more on his website: www.jim-skullgallery.com

as far as I know they do not have titles nor are exact materials or sizes indicated. I assume they are about the size of a human skull.