Barry McGee

McGee's work focuses on contemporary urban culture through his images and compositions. McGee is a painter, installionist, and graffiti artist that uses his work to communicate to his audience. He paints large scale and his most well known for his iconic image of a male figure with sagging eyes "and a bemused expression." His vibrant colors and patterns automatically draw me into his work. I love the combination of mixed media as well as his illustrative style. His work and process is a lot like his wife's- Margaret Kilgallen.

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Margaret Kilgallen

Like her husband's work, Kilgallen paints large murals directly on walls. I'm interested in her style of drawing and painting- her cartoonish, yet strong figures, the festive color schemes, and the incorporation of text. Kilgallen's work communicates well to the viewer and remains stunning through composition and scale.

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Ralph Steadman

Steadman's illustrations have a loose, sketchy quality with minimal color. His illustrations also sometimes reflect upon the drug-induced characters or settings as well as personal moments in his own life. In my opinion, he's an artist whose individual work stands out as well as the work that contributed to another artist or author's work (in this case Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).

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Hellovon

The art of Hellovon is so elegant and timeless. His work is heavily influenced by the world of music, fashion and design and is executed with both traditional and contemporary (digital) mark making techniques. His images are "striking and seductive" that speak to the viewer to tell a narrative. His art is handled in a delicate and exquisite manner.

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Hannah Stouffer

Stouffer's illustrations usually depend on heavy line work and the use of contrast of pigment on dark colored paper. Her work is abstract in subject matter and is interesting in pattern, shape, line, and color. To me, her work emphasizes the physical properties of the piece and often will include small images that the viewer is able to recognize and place into a possible narrative.

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Nao Art

Nao Art is a Japanese artist whose style reminds me a lot of Stina Persson's. Her images, often of the female figure, appear to reflect upon fashion, graphic reduction, and patterns. I'm interested in the organic qualities of these figures as well as the vivid colors and sense of abstraction depicted in each composition.

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Simon Pemberton

Pemberton's interest in texture, space, and mark making shine through his illustrative work. Creating his art through paintings, drawing, and collage, Pemberton incorporates found objects and digital media to finalize his work. His subjects and compositions are sophisticated and abstract. They are interesting to me because the viewer is able to determine these works in their own way. The compositions are left to the viewer to make connections with and determine what exactly is being represented.

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