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September 20, 2018
Andy Smith

Happy’s Garish, Voluminous Scenes

Vladislav Skobelskij, who works under the moniker Happy, creates voluminous, candy-colored scenes and animations. The delightfully garish works move between disturbing and alluring, each figure overcome by vibrant and cartoonish outgrowths. Happy often injects pop cultural and photographic elements into this fantasy world.

In particular, Happy has worked in Japanese influences, from manga to broader kawaii themes. The 33-year-old artist, hailing from Kiev, Ukraine, takes his work to both the screen and apparel. He says his work is a mix of drawing, collage, comics, and “the impact of the world.”

See more of the artist’s work below.

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Collage, drawing, Happy

Alexis Anne Mackenzie, Collage, handcut

December 15, 2016

Alexis Anne Mackenzie’s handcut collages of found images and pages from vintage books in her latest body of work. By taking pictures like scenic backdrops and splitting them with photos of women and other figures, Mackenzie creates stirring, moody works on paper. The work can be at once empowering and seemingly treacherous for those depicted. Works like "Closer to the Sun," above, combine like objects, creates a synthesis between the beauty of flight and womanhood. The body of work is part of the show "Never Odd or Even" at Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco.

Brandon Locher’s Intricate ‘Maze’ Drawings

Brandon Locher, drawing, graphite

October 3, 2017

Brandon Locher is a New York-based visual artist and musician with a prolific output in both areas. His "Mazes to the Motherlode" portfolio contains 50 pieces of art created over the past few years. These ink and graphite labyrinths differ in approach and convolution, yet all are alluring in their intricacies.

Jim Dingilian Draws on Glass Bottles Using a Flame as his Pencil

bottle, drawing, flame, Jim Dingilian

January 19, 2015

Jim Dingilian's work comes in the form of a message in a bottle, which he draws with the tip of candle on the glass's surface. The result is a smokey image nestled within the bottle's concave shape. Dingilian uses his unconventional medium in a way that evokes India ink, impressively handling the flame like a brush. His scenes are well-defined and highly detailed. Dingilian has fun with layering opaque and translucent layers of smoke, resulting in complex scenes within each vessel.

Michel Lamoller Cuts Up Photographs into Trippy Portraits

Collage, Michel Lamoller, Photography, tautochrone curve

September 17, 2015

At some point in his career, Berlin based photographer Michel Lamoller says he grew tired with making simple prints. This eventually led to him to cutting up his pictures of people and landscapes into trippy multi-dimensional portraits. Lamoller grew up near the Black Forest of Germany and the hilly region left a lasting impression on him. Inspired by the shapes and feel of his homeland, his work toys with our perception of our surroundings.

Happy’s Garish, Voluminous Scenes

Alexis Anne Mackenzie’s Stirring, Handcut Collages

Brandon Locher’s Intricate ‘Maze’ Drawings

Jim Dingilian Draws on Glass Bottles Using a Flame as his Pencil

Michel Lamoller Cuts Up Photographs into Trippy Portraits

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