ART: Hiroyuki Takahashi (タカハシヒロユキ) - More Girls Stuffed w/ Stuff

Hiroyuki Takahashi (タカハシヒロユキ)
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HAIKU Art Review: Hiroyuki Takahashi (タカハシヒロユキ)

Quirky staring girl
Overflowing w/ detail
All her stuff is her

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ART: XiaoBai (白姥姥) - Painting Selfies

Zhang Xiao Bai (白姥姥)
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ART: Khoa Le's Moldy Moods

Khoa Le aka MoonyWolf
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ART: Audrey Kawasaki - Knows Ur Secret

Audrey Kawasaki
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BUY - ART PRINTS & SKINS/CASES

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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ART: Song Hye Yeol (송혜열) - Rotten Eggs

Song Hye Yeol (송혜열)
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HAIKU Art Review: Hye Yeol by Yellowmenace

Twisted, broken, stretched
Ingrained forms writhe, organs churn
Rotten Easter eggs

    South Korean female artist, Song Hye Yeol (송혜열)'s bizarrely intoxicating 'pain'-tings on wood.

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ART: Kid Chan - Cyan Parade

Beatrice Tan aka Kid Chan
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Smoke

Haiku Art Review: Kid Chan by Yellowmenace

Sweet romance abounds
Drift away on patterned bliss
Muted hues askew

VID: Best of FEMM?

Far East Mention Mannequin

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"FEMM are like food that looks better than it tastes."

Haiku: FEMM by Yellowmenace

Manufactured pop
15 min flash in pan
Milli Vanilli

FEMM - Fxxk Boyz Get Money

   It's not that good, but it sure is pretty. Like the seductive plastic molded sushi platters displayed in Japanese restaurant windows, FEMM are all spectacle w/ zero substance & it seems like they planned it that way.
   It's "their" message to the world; be an empty, vacuous object w/ no memory of the past or concept of the future. "Kcuf boyz get $$$".

4 more beautifully empty videos below.

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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BUY: Limited Edition Prints  -  Cases & Skins

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.

ART: Erik Jones - The Iris On

Erik Jones
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Erik Jones - Debut Solo Show @ Hashimoto Contemporary

July 5 - 26, 2014

804 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94109 | 

Contact Megan at hashimotocontemporary@gmail.com

415-655-9265 to buy art

Haiku Art Review: Erik Jones by Yellowmenace

Women wrapped in hue
Defined by geometry
Color dominates

Neon Genesis 

"..the forms are consuming the figure. Not in an aggressive or obtrusive way but more like wearing clothes that are alive. Clothes that revere you, they breathe with you.”

  - Erik Jones interviewed by Zach Tutor of SuperSonicArt

   I'm pretty sure Erik has been watching Kill la Kill in his spare time ;)

ART: Funarium - Digital Manju

Funarium aka Yoshimi Ohtani
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Illustration Book 2 & Illustration Book 3

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Haiku Art Review: Funarium by Yellowmenace

Springtime kimonos
Blossoming sweet princesses
Digital manju (饅頭)

   Yoshimi Ohtani was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980.
   She is active at home and abroad in various kinds of media including paper, digital, and websites, cell-phone icons, backgrounds, books, magazines, interior decorations, etc.

   Digital artist Yoshimi Ohtani from her very active FB page where she posts lots of art in progress & sketches

   She draws illustrations of girls, expressing the essence of modern culture, such as the compromise between Japanese and Western styles. She presents “goth-loli” fashions, interpreting uniquely Japanese sensibilities such as wabi (passive demenor), sabi (elegant simplicity), kare (classic taste), and iki (traditional mindset) using modern methods.

ART: Yuko Shimizu (清水裕子) - Re-imagining the Geisha

YUKO SHIMIZU (清水裕子)

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   Learn from a master, Yuko's SkillShare online class:

Mastering Inking: Basic and Pro Techniques

   YUKO SHIMIZU (清水裕子) is a Japanese illustrator based in New York City and instructor at School of Visual Arts.

   Being a Japanese female, I guess Yuko gets lots of jobs drawing geisha.

   Her women R strong, sexy, traditional but w/ a twist of a modern symbol of rebellion (guitar, headphones, tattoos,etc.).

   Geisha re-imagined as superheroes.

More heroic AZN women mastering the balance between tradition & modern individual expression below :)

ART: Yuko Shimizu (清水裕子) - The Men in Her Life

YUKO SHIMIZU (清水裕子)

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   Learn from a master, Yuko's SkillShare online class:

Mastering Inking: Basic and Pro Techniques

   YUKO SHIMIZU (清水裕子) is a Japanese illustrator based in New York City and instructor at School of Visual Arts.

   This post examines her depiction of males. Being Japanese, she seems to get lots of jobs illustrating samurai, martial artists, ninjas, & other traditional archetypes of the Asian male. But first...

   Haiku Art Review by Yellowmenace

Crisp, crunchy colors

wavering youthful lines, say: 

a human drew this

Photo of Yuko photo: ©Anton Repponen 2012

    Although art has always been her passion, she had initially chosen a more practical path of studying advertising and marketing at Waseda University and took a job in corporate PR in Tokyo.

More of Yuko's unique inklings below

ART: Yumiko Kayukawa (粥川由美子) – Animal Lover

Yumiko Kayukawa (粥川由美子)

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   Yumiko Kayukawa grew up in the small town of Naie in Hokkaido, Japan. In this pristine, natural surroundings, she found her love of animals and nature which later became an important theme of her work. 

 Alpha Female

   As she grew up, Yumiko drew inspirations from American pop culture such as Rock & Roll, film and fashion. These influences are fused with modern and traditional Japanese motifs to create her unique style.

Cat Cookies

   Yumiko’s debut as an artist was with a Manga feature when she was just 16. She later attended and graduated from Bisen Art School in Sapporo, Japan. She has lived in Seattle, Washington since 2005.

 Japanese Wolf - 144p Hardcover book featuring works from 2005 - 2013

15 more fantastic Yumiko paintings below
  See also pt 2 - Sexy Yumiko   pt 3 - Weirdest   pt 4 - Ceremony

ART: Hiroyuki Takahashi (タカハシヒロユキ)

HiroyukiTakahashi (タカハシヒロユキ)
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Hiroyuki Takahashi (タカハシヒロユキ)is a Japanese designer/ artist. She creates primarily w/ Illustrator.

“Her designs remind me of a playful, cheerier Shintaro Kago. They're bursting at the seams w/ colorful details referencing pop culture like the irrepressible dreams in Satoshi Kon's 'Paprika'."
- YM