Jeff Soto

Jeff Soto has been travelling through various planes of the art world since graduating from Art Center College of Design, California in 2002. He began experimenting with graffiti while in High School before taking a ten year break to concentrate on illustration and fine art after University.

With his roots based in graffiti as well as painting, Soto has managed to successfully bridge the gap between Street Art and Pop Surrealism, crossing over while remaining relevant in both genres.

He's easily in my top ten contemporary artists...

 

Natalia Rak at Folk on the Street Art Festival, Poland

Here's a fantastic new mural by Polish artist and graphic designer Natalia Rak, painted at Folk on the Street Art Festival in Bialystok, Poland, depicting a young girl in traditional Polish dress watering the tree below. Simple, vibrant and massively effective.

Eroné

It's kind of hard to post about Amose one week without following up with Eroné the next. The two French artists share many common themes and interests. Although, Eroné's work is visually softer and has a more organic feel. The figures are more relaxed and the colour palette is reduced to earthy tones.

Like Amose, Eroné's characters are masked from ethnic and emotional description, but Eroné's figures have something of Amedeo Modigliani about them with their blank, haunting eyes. There is still, however, the visible influence of Southern American street art, like Os Gemeos.

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Amose

French artist Amose hails from Lille in the north of France. He spent four years studying illustration in Belgium but has been more influenced by South American street art like that of Vitché and Vasko as well as traditional art history legends such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

Amose takes the human figure and distorts and exaggerates postures and the size of limbs, taking care to keep the subject's humanity but remove any sense of nationality, sex or race. He keeps their faces neutral, as if they're wearing masks.

He works in a variety of mediums: ink on paper (sometimes with collage), screenprints on plexiglass, digitally, acrylic on wood and wood collage on paper as well as out on the streets. He's also a part of the Mercurocrom collective and together with Eroné and Spyre, runs a screenprint workshop called La Carpe.

 

You can find his website here...

New work from Aryz

Aryz has just put up a new mural in Oslo, Norway for the Oslo Triennial of Mural Art. As usual, it's insanely good: strong imagery with an intense, emotional edge. The enormous scale adds that extra kick to the teeth.

Here's the piece followed by a bunch of other examples of his beautiful, bold work.

 

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