ART: Jed Henry & Dave Bull - Ukiyo-e Heroes

Jed Henry & David Bull (40 Images)

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   Jed Henry is an illustrator, lifelong gamer, Japanophile & all-around nerd. He grew up copying art from game manuals & years later, eventually got a degree in animation. He now works full time on Japanese prints.

Cat vs. Raven - signed giclée print (12 x 17 in)

   David Bull has been in Tokyo since before Jed was born, having gone there to learn what he could about the craft of traditional woodblock printmaking & has been making his living at it for nearly 25 years now. For most of that time, he worked as a solo craftsman (carving, printing, self-publishing), but for the past couple of years has been working with younger people to train them in the techniques, under the umbrella of his Mokuhankan publishing venture.

The Lone Hunter - #10 of 12 in Subscription Print Set

HAIKU Art Review: Ukiyo-e Heroes

Fan 2 fine artist
Outsider 2 old master 
Cultural reboot

Warrior - signed giclée print (12 x 17 in)

   "Not only are we making fun, meaningful art. We’re also working to save the Japanese woodblock community in a very real way. Through print sales, Dave has been able to pay a workshop full of apprentices & even employ seasoned masters in the craft!"

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ART: Tomas Overbai - Asian Characters

Tomas Overbai - (24 Images)
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   Tomas Overbai sells sketches of celebrities & famous characters. He's inspired by Akira Kurosawa, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fantasy & kung-fu movies. He has finished book one of his epic graphic novel series ICHIDO.

HAIKU Art Review: Tomas Overbai

Evolving pencil
Rough charismatic sketches
Longing for sumi

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ART: Craig Drake - Asian Influences

Craig Drake: Asian Influences
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curated by YellowMenace (20 images)
*UPDATED: Nov 2017

   With minimal as the mantra of the 2010s, Craig Drake's art has come along at just the right moment. He balances simplicity with enough well placed detail & beloved pop subject matter to make his work irresistible.

   This post focuses on Asian movie, anime & comic pop icons. This isn't the first time I've featured Craig's art & I can guarantee you it won't be the last.

   Craig recently had his second solo show at Hero Complex Gallery. The links to purchase prints below all lead to the Hero Complex Store. (Art without links has already sold out)

Akira - Foil Variant (36" x 12") 

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HAIKU Art Review: Craig Drake

80s graphic style

Artistic economy

Slick pop nostalgia

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Beatrix or Gogo - Large Variant Editions of 25 (24" x 72")

ART: Witness the Absurd - Pastel Monster Portraits

Witness the Absurd - (28 works)

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   Witness the Absurd is a UK based student working her way through art school by selling T-shirts & doing commissions of manga, anime, game & kaiju monsters using her unique Miami vice color palette.

HAIKU Art Review: Witness the Absurd

Deviant monsters
Pretty pink & baby blue
Approachable fiends

ART: Gordon Cheung - Toxic Corporate Cowboys

Gordon Cheung - (30 works)

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   At first glance, Gordon Cheung's collaged paintings may look like an art student experimenting with Photoshop filters for the first time. The posterization, find edges, & solarized effects are actually achieved via a complex process of actual layering, which for Cheung always begins with the stock listings from newspapers as his base.

HAIKU Art Review: Gordon Cheung

Toxic cowboys ride
Euphoric dystopia
Nuclear neon stock

   Gordon is a British Born Chinese (BBC) of Hong Kong origin, born in 1975. He lives & works in London. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001 with an MFA in painting.

ART: Jonny Wan - Complex Simplicity

Jonny Wan - (18 works)
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   British born Chinese graphic artist Jonny Wan weaves simple geometric lines w/ irresistible patterns to create striking illustartions for numerous A-list clients such as; The Academy Awards, GQ, Audi, Nike, Wired, etc.

Representation: US - UK - France - Scandinavia

  

HAIKU Art Review: Jonny Wan

Precise arrangement
Pattern, color & form married
Digital kung-fu

   Born in Sheffield, now working in Manchester for clients worldwide across advertising, editorial, publishing, fashion and product design.
   He studied at Manchester School of Art (class of 2008).

ART: Android Jones - Asian Influences

Andrew 'Android' Jones
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   Andrew "Android" Jones is an American visual artist. He describes his art as Electro-mineralism, with Pop-Shamanism tendencies.

   He has created live art around the world, including digital visual art projections from the Sydney Opera House in Australia to the Ghats in Varanasi in India.

   He started his career with George Lucas at Industrial Light and Magic & worked as the only North American concept artist for the Japanese gaming company Nintendo

Source: Wikipedia

Year of the Ram (shirt)

HAIKU Art Review: Android Jones

Deities detail
Delightful DMT dreams
Digital dharma

 "Android is classically trained in academic drawing & painting & this traditional art background is the foundation through which he bridges the knowledge of the past & brings it into the future."    - Michael Schwartz

ART INTERVIEW: Tony Stella - Essential Asian Flim Posters

Tony Stella - Illustrator - Italian

   Stella's illustrations are passionate & personal, capturing memory triggering cinematic moments that leave you longing to review these classic films. Although, he creates art for a variety of films, I've selected 20 of my favorite Asian movie posters (of course).

   "Stella’s seemingly effortless pen & ink sketches, his washes of watercolor & his brush-stroke lettering hark to back to an earlier age."

        - Adrian Curry of Mubi Notebook

Kawidan by Masaki Kobayashi - 1964

   When I first discovered Tony's expressive hand painted film posters on Tumblr, I instantly became a fan. I had to see more of his unique work, luckily his very active Tumblr blog contains a huge collection of illustrated movie posters. He was also kind enough to grant me an interview & I really appreciate him responding with such thoughtful recollections of his process & past. 

   Yellowmenace: What’s your approach when creating a new poster?

   Tony Stella: Usually, I have seen the movie many times before I start working on a poster. Most of the time, the design is directly triggered by a scene or a still image that jumps out while I watch the film or that left an impression on me. I am an avid collector of film soundtracks, so I often listen to the score while working - it creates the atmosphere & gets me into the right mood.

The Yakuza (ザ・ヤクザ) by Sydney Pollack - 1974

HAIKU Art Review: Tony Stella

Essential brush strokes
Archive cinema's glory
Visage nostalgic

ART: Sachin Teng - Future's Void

Sachin Teng 

Taiwanese/American Illustrator

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   It's as if Mr. Teng has Seth Brundle's disfunctional teletransporter fused with McFly's time machine & he's merely capturing still lifes of the grotesqueries he has collected. 

ART: Agarwen - Mexican Samurai

Agarwen
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HAIKU Art Review:

Tattooed tough guys glare
Pale submissive nymphs shy glance
Watercolor dreams

   Mexican artist Agarwen is obsessed with Japanese culture, so he doesn't neatly fit into my Whitey Goes AZN segment.

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ART: Audrey Kawasaki - Knows Ur Secret

Audrey Kawasaki
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HAIKU Art Review: Audrey Kawasaki by Yellowmenace

Eyes calmly observe
Drowning dream, her hair enwraps
She knows your secret

Things Unsaid

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Fuco Ueda

ART: Joanna Krótka aka Asiulus

Joanna Krótka aka Asiulus (WGA)
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Buy gallery quality giclée art prints from INPRNT.com

HAIKU Art Review:

Raw neon sketchbook
Geek girl's escape to Asia
Full of wildflowers

Joanna Krótka is an illustrator based in Poland. She's a geek with bad eyesight and weird sense of humor.

Whitey Goes AZN - YM's continuing series focusing on white artists influenced by Asia.

ART: Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze's Hong Kong

Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze - (WGA)
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Own RJL's photobook: 160 pages

VERTICAL HORIZON 

Haiku Art Review: RJL's Hong Kong by Yellowmenace

Push, stack, move, hustle
Steamy crowds of bright neon
Hong Kong will eat U

   Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze is a French photographer born in France in 1987. He grew up in Paris suburbs until he moved abroad in 2008. Originally dedicated to visual art, his interest in photography started to prevail after his arrival in Hong Kong.

Whitey Goes AZN - YM's continuing series focusing on white artists influenced by Asia.

ART: Sean Danconia - Secret AZN Man

Sean Danconia (WGA)
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Game of Your Life

Haiku Art Review: Sean Danconia by Yellowmenace

Retro kung-fu funk
Reframing reality
Secret AZN man

O-Ren Ishii - Alt version @ iCanvas.com

   Sean Danconia has built a seductive visual universe by marrying cult-cinema & animation to a wild pop-art aesthetic. Born in Montreal, Canada, Danconia was named after another “Sean”-Connery—by his mother, an intrepid James Bond fan. This early “Bondian” bullet would fire itself throughout his life and creative pursuits.

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ART: Hakan Photography in Japan

Akif Hakan Celebi - Hakan Photography
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   Striving to go beyond established styles and widen the boundaries of photographic expression.

Haiku Art Review: Hakan by Yellowmenace

Distant from subject 
Outsider lensing inward
A ghost searching for...

   It's not easy to find info on Akif Hakan Celebi. I know he travels all over the world taking photos & works for fashion magazines. 

ARTIST: Victo Ngai - Asian Water Goddess

Victo Ngai - Asian Water Goddess

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Represented by MGI

Mooncatcher

Haiku Art Review: Victo Ngai by Yellowmenace

Drawn by Eastern seas
Imagination flowing
Always floating free

Koi Dance - 13"x19"Open edition fine art Giclée print.

   Victo Ngai is a NY based illustrator from Hong Kong. "Victo" is not a typo or a boy, but a nickname derived from "Victoria" - a leftover from British colonization.

   Victo Ngai - Like Knows Like - She talks about her work, process & life as an artist.

   Victo Ngai is a Hong Kong born, multiple award winning Illustrator, who lives and works in Manhattan, NY. You might have seen her stunning editorial work in magazines like The New Yorker, The New York Times.

ARTIST: Formento+Formento - Japan Diaries

Formento + Formento - Japan Diaries
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Current Exhibition: JapanDiaries @ Fahey/Klein Gallery

148 North La Brea, Los Angeles, CA
between First Street and Beverly Boulevard

Phone: (323) 934-2250 

July 24 - August 31, 2104

Haiku Art Review: Japan Diaries by Yellowmenace

Passive AZNettes
Pretty package tied w/ rope
Slanted eyes = soul less

   Richeille Formento, a former graphic designer, styles and art directs the pictures, while her husband BJ Formento lights and photographs them.

   Everything begins with BJ's photography, in the frozen instant that will never return; and ends in Richeille's creative direction, in her slow, reflective, patient composition.

   BJ moved to NYC 1999 and assisted Richard Avedon, Mary Ellen Mark, Annie Leibovitz and studied under Eugene Richards and Arnold Newman. Since 2001, he has set out on his own and has shot for numerous magazines and advertising clients as well as continued to mature in his personal work.

   Richeille worked as an art director and designer within the fashion industry, working for a large umbrella company responsible for visually communicating new season looks on all graphic works and brands like Calvin Klein, Diesel, DKNY and various other independent fashion labels.

ARTIST: Andrew Archer - AZN Style

Andrew Archer
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   Andrew Archer is a New Zealand born illustrator currently living in Melbourne, Australia. He's been working as an illustrator since 2007.

The Beach

I did eat crayons which quite possibly is where my off-beat colour palettes come from.

PK

I’m greatly inspired by...wood block prints, edo period art, cartoons, ideograms, characterization, travel and Asia.

The Reaper

This is part of my Whitey Goes AZN series.