Lauren Brevner: Rapt in Tradition

Lauren Brevner (Japan/Canada)
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   Lauren Brevner is Japanese Canadian, self-taught, mixed media artist from Vancouver, Canada. Unable to afford art school, she gained her skills & determination to become an artist while apprenticing under renowned artist, Sin Nakayamal in Osaka, Japan. Her portraits of women find their Japanese influence in the gold & silver leaf detailing & collage of patterned chiyogami, yuzen & washi paper in their clothing. Lauren's passion for experimentation has led her to mural painting & collaborations with First Nations sculptor, James Harry.

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YoonJin Jo: Famous Packing Tape Portraits

YoonJin Jo 조윤진

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   YoonJin Jo is a Korean artist who creates portraits of celebrities using colored packing tape. The result looks like the low-res, geometric, color blocking popular in digital graphic design mixed with classic Warholesque messy screen printing. Check out the video below to better understand her creative process.

   Women's History Month is in full swing on YM blog featuring my favorite Asian female artists, click HERE to see them all.

So Youn Lee: Marshmallow Mango

So Youn Lee
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   So Youn Lee is a Korean artist who creates paintings that look like the pastel colored marshmallows in children's breakfast cereal. She focuses on creating iterations of Mango, her colorful, kawaii, androgynous character representing self-acceptance & inner peace.

   I'm celebrating my favorite Asian female artists in March for Women's History Month, click HERE to see them all.

Hikari Shimoda: Children of the World

Hikari Shimoda
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   Japanese artist, Hikari Shimoda has been creating portraits of pale, tiny-horned, orb-eyed children with vacant or morose expressions for the past 7 years. Her unmistakable style, along with her impressive output of over 100 paintings have earned her many international exhibitions, including 4 solo shows at the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles & countless features in prestigious art magazines & blogs. 

   For all of March, I'm celebrating Women's History Month by featuring my favorite Asian female artists here on YellowMenace Blog. 

ART: Manit Srisuwan - She's Taking Flight

Manit Srisuwan Goft มานิตย์ ศรีสุวรรณ์
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   Manit Srisuwan is a Thai artist living in Bangkok, who has dedicated his life to painting. He has a BFA & MFA in painting & has been working as a professional artist for over 10 years in a semi-realistic, Pop-Surrealism style. His work evokes the symbolic visions from dreams.

ART: Jung Narate - Interview

Jung Narate ณเรศ จึง
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   Jung Narate is a professional Thai painter living in Bangkok, Thailand. His style is Pop Neo Expressionism, much of his work involves Jung interpreting his affections for famous historical artworks. He will be part of a group exhibition this Sep. at The Queen's Gallery & a solo at the People's Gallery on the second floor of BACC in Oct., 2017. If you are in Bangkok this fall please come check them out.

ART: Takashi Murakami - The 500 Arhats

Takashi Murakami 村上 隆: The 500 Arhats
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   This exhibition focused on Takashi Murakami (村上 隆)'s recent work, mainly his epic "The 500 Arhats", a 3-meterhigh, 100-meter-long painting of the 500 enlightened followers (arhats) of Buddha, created in response to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Some large sculptural pieces & abstract paintings are also included.

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ART: Tamura Yoshiyasu - Surreal Kanzashi

Tamura Yoshiyasu 田村吉康
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   Tamura Yoshiyasu is a professional manga artist, painter & illustrator, born in Gunma, Japan, 1977. Since high school he has been drawing & in 2003, his first manga "Fudegami" was published in the popular monthly, Gekkan Shōnen Jump.

HAIKU Art Review: Tamura Yoshiyasu

Surreal kanzashi

Painter dreams up coy maiko

Better mind her claws

    As a painter, he has exhibited his works at Takashi Murakami's gallery Higari Zingaro, Basel, Taipei, Los Angeles, New York & Mexico City. He also collaborated with the fashion brand, McQ: Alexander McQueen for the 2014 winter collection.

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ART: Buddhist Inspired Art

Inspired by The Buddha
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   I've selected 40 Buddhist inspired artworks by 36 astounding international artists showcasing an eclectic array of reverence for, appropriation & criticism of the Buddha as a symbol. This isn't your obachan's Buddhist art.

Hisashi Tenmyouya 天明屋尚 (Japan)

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ART: Year of the Monkey Collection

Fire Monkey Collection 2016
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   Wishing all my fellow artistic revolutionaries joyous prosperity in 2016, yang fire monkey year with more monkey art than you can shake a banana at. I tried to compile an eclectic assortment of monkeys, apes, macaques, baboons, etc in a variety of styles & techniques. Sun Wukong & Hanuman are, of course associated with monkey years & feature prominently here. I've also included excerpts of general predictions for the year from Happy Wishing Well & Suzanne White.
   Gong Xi Fa Cai (恭禧发财)!

James Jean (Taiwan/US)

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   HAIKU: Monkey Year 2016

Curious ape king 
Fiery swinging trickster's year
Pray, no burnt branches

Kouji Oshiro (Peru)
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   The lunar Year of the Yang Red Fire Monkey runs from Monday Feb 08 2016 to Friday Jan 27 2017. This is a year of adventure, discovery, questions & answers, when luck can strike at bizarre times & fortunes can turn in the blink of an eye. Risk, strategy, learning, change & progress feature prominently in a Monkey Year.

source: HappyWishingWell

Ise Ratta Ananphada aka Ratinan Thaicharoen (Thailand) 
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ART: Wu Ming Zhong (武明中) - Heart of Glass

Wu Ming Zhong (武明中)
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   Wu Ming Zhong was born in Hebei province China in 1963. In most of his paintings he uses a monochrome palette with reds as the defining accents.  He is the Associate Professor & Director of the Oil Painting Research Office for the College of Fine Arts at Capital Normal University. He was a visiting scholar at Liebin Academy of Fine Arts in Russia & Buffalo State College in the USA.

HAIKU Art Review: Wu Ming Zhong

Fragile heart of glass
In a cold monochrome world
Life painted in blood

   "My work isn’t like the work of Edward Munch – paintings shot through with obvious expressions of pain. My paintings, rather, are easy on the eye & serve to dissipate the pain."

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ART: Kriangkrai Kongkhanun - The Torments of Sin

Kriangkrai Kongkhanun (เกรียงไกร กงกะนันทน์)
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   Kriangkrai Kongkhanun was born in 1980 & graduated with a Masters degree from Silpakorn University in Thailand. He attempts to characterize the dark thoughts & emotions of humans whose minds are seized by sin as described in different legends & ancient Buddhist scriptures. Kriangkrai's art depicts the abstract concepts of hatred, anger, vengeance, greed & jealousy, his Neo-Primitive designs symbolize the karma of humanity.

HAIKU Art Review: Kriangkrai Kongkhanun

Creatures of desire
Evil manifestations
Our karmic mirror

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ART: Kazu Livingstone - Graphic Poetry

Kazu Livingstone aka Slim Panda / Kayzer Bubu
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   Kazu Livingstone is a Eurasian poet & political artist from Penang Island, Malaysia. His art has been exhibited on five continents & he's collaborated with artists from around the world.

HAIKU Art Review: Kazu Livingstone 

Graphic poetry
Artistic activism
Pop propaganda

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ART: Nekoshowgun (猫将軍) - Inked Wild Things

Nekoshowgun (猫将軍) - [66 Images / 3 Pages]

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   Nekoshogun is an illustrator who was born in Wakayama prefecture in 1982. She's expanded her popularity in Japan & also in the United States since she uploaded videos of her drawing process & her illustration has been used by the famous singer, Kyosuke Himuro. She recently published her own illustration book, Illustration Making & Visual Book

HAIKU Art Review: Nekoshowgun

Master of contrasts
Primal urges, black & white
Color's a sweet treat

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ART: Dali Roll - Surreal Sensuality

Dali Roll (달리롤) - (35 Images)
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   South Korean artist Dali Roll (달리롤) creates digital dreamscapes erupting with symbols of female reproduction. Ovals, ova, eggs, & other vulvic shapes dominate her work. The cute, flat, comic style & cheerful colors contradict the obsessive angst of the subject matter. Her digital creations seem to channel cryptic cries from the feminine collective unconscious.   

ART: Zhang Yuxi (张玉玺) - Little Yellow Boy

Zhang Yuxi (张玉玺) - (19 Images)
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   Zhang Yuxi was born in China, 1980 & graduated from Harbin University majoring in sculpture. The artist's work is easily recognizable by the tri-eyed little yellow boy, a main character he created in most of his work which represents hope & positivity. The tri-eye character represents the three different stages of life.

HAIKU Art Review: Zhang Yuxi

Little yellow man

Blinded by colorful past

All seeing 3rd eye?

    “The little boy reflects the experiences of those born during the 1980’s. As I was born in this time period, I know it well & portray this with childhood innocence.” 

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ART: Yosuke Ueno (上野陽介) - Kawaii Characters

Yosuke Ueno (上野陽介) - (28 Images)
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   Yosuke Ueno was born in Japan in 1977. He has been building his world since a young child & had his first solo show in Yamaguchi, Japan in 1994 at the young age of 16. Ueno's work has shown with some of the most established galleries, including major exhibitions in his home country of Japan at the Shimoni-Seki Museum & Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. He recently had a solo show at Thinkspace Gallery

HAIKU Art Review: Yosuke Ueno

Fairytale characters

Surreal kawaii dreamscapes

Child's play DNA

   "My hope for a piece is to complete itself beyond my imagination."

ART: Casper Kang - Bridging Perspectives

Casper Kang - (25 Images)
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   Born in Canada in 1981, Casper Kang lives & works in Seoul, South Korea. He draws inspiration from the corpus of traditional Korean imagery, reinterpreting & presenting the history of his mother culture as a formal recollection of an alternate past.

HAIKU Art Review: Casper Kang

Outsider inside
Bridging cultures & history
Reconstructing time

Samurai Inspired Art Collection

Samurai Inspired (武士触発)
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   The helmet, the armor, the blades & the code... Everything about the samurai is intriguing. Artists especially, amateur & pro have their imaginations ignited by this ancient Japanese warrior.

   I've assembled 40 of my favorite bushi from 40 brilliant artists creating traditional & historically accurate samurai, pop remixed ronin, sci-fi shizoku, sexy onna-bugeisha & abstract yakuza.

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HAIKU: Samurai Spirit

Pure controlled motion

Restless pen, ink flows like blood

Soul of Bushido

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Aditya Permadi aka Subjektzero (Indonesia)

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ART: Rudcef - Tear Away Faces

Rudcef  -  (21 Images)

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    South Korean Illustrator Rudcef uses his art to connect with people & overcome social anxiety. He was majoring in statistics when the death of a family member caused him to reevaluate life & pursue a career in art. He has done many celebrity portraits, such as A$AP Yams & Rocky, Lana Del Rey, & Kendall Jenner.

HAIKU Art Review: Rudcef

Dark pigments align 
Sick artistic autopsy
Faces tear away 

   I draw for “compathy” - sharing my feelings via art to fill the absence of communication in my life. All humans appear different, but we have the same organs, so for me anatomy represents our genuine being.