Filed under: art, photography | Tags: art, Benedict Campbell, Digital Illustration, Host and author Dixie Rosa Fernandez, Photograpy
Campbell uses his passion worth twenty years in advertising as a photographer and digital illustrator by immaculately crafting a hyper reality onto a real image, but never defacing, taking away from it. His fortified foundation in photography enables him to free play with an image in a way where he still allows them to be accessible and organically simple. And like the gift that keeps on giving he’s also a film maker and designer as well. Dixie
Filed under: art | Tags: fine art, Host and author Dixie Rosa Fernandez, Jenny Alcantara's Treacherous Gardens, painting, San Francisco
Filed under: art | Tags: Ebon Heath, Host and author Dixie Rosa Fernandez, installation art, New York, typographic mobiles, visual poetry
Filed under: art, photography | Tags: Beatrice Morabito, Dolls with emotions, Freudian dolls, Host and author Dixie Rosa Fernandez, Italy, photography
Filed under: art | Tags: Australia, depthCore.com, digital art, Host and author Dixie Rosa Fernandez, Justin Maller, Kevin Stacey
Filed under: art | Tags: art, Berlin, Host and author Dixie Rosa Fernandez, Japan, ma pouppee japonaise, Mario Ambrosius, Puppet Sculpture
Filed under: art, photography | Tags: art, Fine art Photography, Host and author Dixie Rosa Fernandez, Manuel Vason Studio, photography
Need a moment? Italian Manuel Vason was studying social science in Padova when he first decided to pursue photography. In his shift in studies he moved to Milan where he had his first job as a studio assistant for two years. He continued to do assistant work in London to some of the most reputable fashion photographers in the industry, during which time he started the project ”Exposure” a publication on Live Performance Art (Black Dog Publishing, 2001). Vason’s photograhy wears performance art all over it. Here we see an exploration of his cunning interest for the human vessel and its expression, involvement in performance mode. Dixie
Filed under: art | Tags: art, Dixie Rose Fernandez on Sam Weber, Host and author Dixie Rosa Fernandez, Illustration, Sam Weber, Water colour and acrylic art
Alaskan illustrator Sam Weber works part time as assistant art director of the OpEd page at the New York Times. He attended the graduate program for illustration at The School of Visual Arts and his clients include The New Yorker, Nylon, Play Girl, Forum Magazine, The Stranger, Bitch!, to name a few. His creative process begins with pencil and paper and keeps it very personal since he rarely reveals his first drafts to anyone. Most of his work is ink, water colour, and acrylic, which is then scanned and finished in photoshop, but he generally wants to refrain from using a computer less and less, as a matter of preference. Weber intentionally intertwines themes of childhood scary stories and fairy tales in what he shows us. And his ideal work environment is an old pencil factory in Brooklyn he shares with other illustrators, which he depicts as having magnificent exposed brick and peeling paint falling. What motivates him most is getting to see other great works from other artists. But what’s most intriguing is Weber’s love for fairy tales and scary stories and how these themes come off the page as somewhat surreal in their fusion. Dixie
Filed under: art | Tags: art, Dixie Fernandez, Haute Epoch exhibit, Host and author Dixie Rosa Fernandez, Illustration, Sylvia Ji
Sylvia Ji was born in 1982, and graduated from the Academy of Art of the University of San Francisco with a Bachelors in illustration. I’ve always been intrigued with people’s perception (of), reaction to death and if someone has experienced losing a close one, how that affects how one individual conducts him/herself throughout life. Death affects us all in the same way the living do, even if you ignore the living. But Sylvia manages to nurture in her work so much life and sensual vibrancy in her seemingly nostalgic illustrations, juxtaposing the conventional social notions of many modern day women otherwise led to living in fear, oppressed. This is what I feel her art exudes in her renditions of luscious, sexual, provocative damsels, in their Dia de Los Muertos war paint with such femininity. Dia de Los Muertos is a festive day in Mexican culture, not a day of mourning sadness. She obviously understands the irony between those two parallels. I would love to see myself in such seductive coloration and changed face, somewhat macabre, but hyper real and full of emotion. Sylvia’s having an exhibit titled Haute Epoch next Saturday, April 11, 2009, over at the Corey Helford Gallery. Dixie
