Liz Brizzi

Born in France to Italian parents, Liz Brizzi grew up in Los Angeles. Working from her downtown graphic design studio, she captures the desolate beauty of the urban outskirts of the city in her mixed media paintings.

Manipulated photographs are collaged onto wood panel, with layers of acrylic washes on top. The back streets of LA are presented with a raw edge which shows the rapidly disappearing history of a city in constant change.

Beautiful decay: the work of artist and designer, Evan Hecox.

It was a few years ago when I first heard of Evan Hecox.  I can't remember exactly how I came to find his work but it instantly grabbed my attention. The simplified, design-like style hit the same chord that illustration does with me. The paintings are almost cinematic in their composition. And it's this mix of recording the factual, physical decay of a city street while simultaneously reducing it to it's essential visible components, and turning it into a beautiful image, that I love so much.

He begins with careful observations of a setting and then progresses into concentrated, detailed drawings worked over a prepared, aesthetically textured ground. As a result the drawing floats on top of the surface, which remains visible through the drawing, creating a space between them that is at once tied to, and distanced from the image.

His more recent work has started to move towards abstraction with design coming to the fore. Presenting work with bold abstracted lettering combined with the urban landscapes of his previous work, often drawn over newspaper.

Evan Hecox lives and works in Colarado, USA.

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.

 

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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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