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Tishk Barzanji’s Mixed-Media Works Explore Architecture, Western Experience

Tishk Barzanji plays with architecture and perspective in pastel-hued landscapes. The mixed-media works use both digital and photographic techniques to create these absorbing, yet off-kilter explorations. The use of varied sources takes the viewer in and far out of reality within a single work.

“My work is inspired by Ancient history, the Modernism movement, and my experiences in London since moving here in 1997,” the artist says. “My process is about space, colour, deconstruction, breaking boundaries, understanding the living space in this fast moving world and human interactions within these spaces. I lived in Dalston (London) back in 1998, where my passion for architecture and art began. The people I grew up with and the environment I was around, shaped my ideas to what I practice now.”

See more of the artist’s works below.

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digital art, Mixed Media, Tishk Barzanji

digital art, illustration, Nicolas Obery

August 4, 2014

French illustrator and designer Nicolas Obery works with deep contrasts and haunting imagery for his monochromatic digital art series, "Fantasmagorik." The finely textured, elaborate pieces are sometimes pure imagination and sometimes incorporate photography, but Obery leaves nothing untouched by his digital brush. Even the photographic parts of his work are manipulated and stylized in such a way that they bear great similarity to the expressionistic possibilities of painting. Influenced by the H.R. Geiger, Obery weaves the elements of his work together with a sinewy, tissue-like texture that evokes the biomorphic qualities of the late Swiss artist's work.

Eric Petersen’s Vivid Digital Illustrations

digital art, Eric Peterson, illustration

August 25, 2014

Eric Petersen is a methodical, calculated artist. He opts to work digitally to remove any personalized evidence of the human touch. He chooses the colors of his works like a scientist dropping carefully-measured chemicals into a vile: The intended effect of these contrasting, bright shades, says Petersen, is one of unsettlement. He sets up compositions that are at once harmonious and jarring. Geometric shapes appear to slice through his planes with razor sharp precision of placement. Yet their rhythmic arrangements give his work a sense of harmony, even while the electric blue, neon yellow and sunset orange hues simultaneously vie for viewers' attention.

Pavel Gempler Uses Cloth as ‘Second Skin’ for Paintings

Mixed Media, painting, Pavel Gempler

May 9, 2018

Using transparent cloths clad to the canvas, painter Pavel Gempler creates a "second skin, through which the lower pictorial layers shine through and create an irritating doubling," the artist says. The result is both captivating and creates a pixelated effect to his works, which then carry photograph-like benefits of the light.

Eliana Marinari’s Mixed-Media Paintings Reflect on Memory

Eliana Marinari, Mixed Media, painting

April 12, 2019

Exploring the reality of "distorted or inaccessible memories," Eliana Marinari applies several layers of aerosol acrylic paint over ink and pastel drawings. In the artist’s “Recognition Memory” and “Recollection” series, portraits and still-life works are given this treatment, respectively. The resulting work is both haunting and brings reflection on our own limitations, as viewers.

Tishk Barzanji’s Mixed-Media Works Explore Architecture, Western Experience

Nicolas Obery’s “Fantasmagorik” Illustration Series

Eric Petersen’s Vivid Digital Illustrations

Pavel Gempler Uses Cloth as ‘Second Skin’ for Paintings

Eliana Marinari’s Mixed-Media Paintings Reflect on Memory

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