☆.｡.:*Art Portfolio.｡.:*☆

Nneka Jones       Nneka Jones is a multimedia artist who enjoys exploring work such as thread work or embroidery as well as textiles, she also explores things such as paintings like mural work and more intimate small pieces. The topics of her work usually explore though provoking concepts. Her main focus in the topics of her work is the protection of  poc women and young girls.          Her embroidery work has been featured in  Colossal magazine, The Jealous Curator blog, The American Craft Council, Embroidery Mag UK and Domestika               

  Joseph Cornell      Joseph Cornell was an American visual artist and film-maker. Cornell's most characteristic works were assemblage boxes made from objects he found. He also explored the medium of collage however is most recognized for the boxes mentioned before.      Cornell considered himself a surrealist. He lived most of his life in isolation caring for his sickly mother. 

Tom Lea      Tom Lea, born in 1907 was an artist, who explored mediums such as murals, illustration and who was also  a novelist and a war correspondent.      Unlike most WW2 era art Leas\'s work differed through it's use of vibrant color. The use of such extreme color capture's the viewers eye, intriguing them and making the reality of the war very jarring. His work was the first painting displayed in the National World War II Museum and is a stark contrast from the monotony of the black and white photos of war.                 Arabella Dorman     Arabella Dorman is a British War Artist. She mainly works in portraits. She is said to be a positive and light energy when working with the subjects of her paintings. She started her career as a war artist in Iraq and Afghanistan. More recently in 2018 she traveled to places such as    Homs and Aleppo in Syria, and Gaza, the...

The artist I chose for the free blog is Semiok in instagram. He’s a street artist from turkey. His are very cartoony and bright and a lot of them feature characters from different shows or movies. What I really love about his art is how he incorporates the surrounding of the pieces. It isn’t just a flat piece but something about it is real and in in your face to make it part of the scene.       

Danny van Ryswyk Ryswyk creates all of his work on 3d software on his computer. He says working on the program is almost like working with clay but digitally. He works on his wacom tablet. Once the sculptures are printed he begins to paint the details in. Most of his works are really eerie looking, which is what I personally enjoy most cause it's weird and I like weird stuff.    Gilles Azzaro Azzaro is a French digital artist. He uses 'cutting edge" technology to create 3D images of people's voices. He magnifies the images and makes them into almost lunar like landscapes out of 3D words. They kind of remind me of minecraft if I'm being honest. But they also look a lot like stalactites on the insides of caves.

Frank Stella is an American printer, painter and sculptor most commonly known for his minimalistic style and abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York city. In his early work you will mostly see really geometric pieces with either lots or little color, that are usually done 2d. However as time passes you can see that his work begins to be extremely expressive and shifts from 2d to 3d and begins to get very abstract, in your face almost.