Tuesday, October 18, 2011

living artists research 1: Sam Vanallemeersch, GiPi, Marcel Dzama

  1. http://www.sovchoz.be/

bio: Sam Vanallemeersch draws for you!
5856545134




That is all Sam Vanallemeersch wants to tell you. But because his drawings make me feel funny, I spy:
Here are the things he likes: http://sovchoz.tumblr.com/
He has a wide variety of styles, from this, his recent scratchy stuff to bold flat vector drawings to manic paintings. I finally found a bio in his page on Pazuzu Illustration Agency's website.
"Sam spends every waking hour tracing life in blackest ink.
Once he starts spewing his freeform ravings, there's no stopping him, no human concept is safe from the sharpness of his gaze, no scrap of paper-related material is safe from the sharpness of his pen.
Sam has done editorial work for Weekend Knack, 11 Freunde and Amsterdam Weekly. Right now he's working on two books, a comic and a publication of his drawings with Nobrow."

nice.

   2.http://giannigipi.blogspot.com/  
bio: GiPi draws loose, delicate watercolor illustrations & writes & draws his own comics. He has a text-thick blog that could tell me much more about him if it wasn't in italian. I've found out this much in english: his well-reviewed graphic novel Garage Band is an example of sensitively rendered "tensions of young adulthood", including biblical character parallels & the requisite absent parents.

Garage Band_Excerpt
garage band 11   






















         2. Marcel Dzama has been one of my favorite artists since I was in early high school. He was born in Canada, got his BFA from the University of Manitoba, & now lives and works in New York City. Some of my favorite work he made collaboratively, at the now-disbanded Royal Art Lodge. He's found a lot of success for his signature style & evocative, ambiguous scenes, making art for album covers and exhibiting at MOMA & the Whitney Biennial. His characteristic color schemes are  sometimes achieved by mixing his watercolor with root beer instead of water, & in his studio there is a face drawn on his oscillating fan. My sister-in-law has a small collection of his prints hung up by clothes pins on a string stretched across her living room wall. Every time I visit it makes me so green.
Marcel Dzama, UntitledMarcel Dzama, Son of the rope makers daughterMarcel Dzama, A compass in the deep darknessMarcel Dzama, After the Flood, Before the FireMarcel Dzama, The Ghost Riders

No comments:

Post a Comment