Saturno Buttò was born in 1957, May 14th, in Portogruaro (Province of Venice). Between 1970 and 1980 he moved to Venice to attend first the High School of Art and then the Fine Arts Academy. The High School initiated him into the classical drawing – that will be perfected throughout the years -, whereas the vocational experiences at the Academy were mainly about non-traditional way of expressions. After graduation his artistic personality was already strong, but he did not single out his own original style yet. So he decided to segregate himself in his studio to start an elaboration that would lead soon to a kind of unique painting, owing nothing to any past or contemporary artist, and being immediately recognizable in the current international outline as well. Since 1983 he has been owner of a studio – gallery located in a byroad of Bibione, a seaside resort in the province of Venice; that place is conceived as almost unnoticed to the passengers: this choice reflects the artist’s lone temperament and discretion. Could these two qualities make us think, as the ancient used to say, that a man’s name can actually affect his nature? Nomen est omen? For sure we know that his name is the reference of the peculiar ideographs that stand as his signature on the works: indeed they are personal variations of the symbol that represents planet Saturn in the septenarius.

Daniel Danger is an illustrator and printmaker working out of New England. The son of an middle school art teacher married to a professional potter, Daniel was never going to be a mathematician or claims adjuster for a top rated insurance agency. Amidst old houses dead from the fallout of urban sprawl, railway bridges asleep from neglect, and trees that engulf everything; his work attempts to remind you of something you may have said to someone, or something someone may have said to you; back in that time period thats just too far away to remember clearly, but not so long ago you forgot about it completely. His memories and many of his friends are simply ghosts now, shaking him awake with mistimed alarm clocks and the sounds of a television from across the house. Documentation is key to get through the day. Things are always changing and its easy to lose yourself.

Read this: Whenever asked, “How long did it take you to make this?” I always respond, “My whole life up to that moment.” And it’s true. I never liked the idea that someone could just buy my work. I develop ideas forever, then struggle with finding a way to execute them that makes sense, often traversing through several iterations. And then someone writes a check and that’s the end. What? I work too hard on this stuff. Simply paying for it and hanging it on a wall is too easy. I don’t want anything I do becoming another inanimate object that decorates someone’s home. I want more. I want ramifications! So I came up with this. This feels more like a real transaction. Yes, you get to own something I made, but you also accept some responsibility. Put this on your wall and you have to be more honest as a result. It’s more than just an image, it becomes a point of interaction with everyone who comes into your home. It’s simple ink on paper, but wherever it hangs, there’re social implications. It’s not for everyone. -Steve Lambert

Spanish painter and illustrator Fernando Vincente anatomical art. Lovely.

Koren Shadmi’s graphic novels have been published in France, Italy, Spain, Israel, and the US. His first English book, In The Flesh, was published by Random House in 2009. Koren’s work was selected for the Best American Comics 2009 anthology edited by Charles Burns, His illustrations and comics have won several awards worldwide. Clients: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, BusinessWeek, the Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Spin, ESPN the Magazine, Random House, W.W Norton, Popular Mechanics, and many others.

Rachell Sumpter is a West Coast artist who paints tiny splendors within a desolate and populated wilderness. Using layered gouache and pastel, she creates scenes that are at once communal and isolated. Figures stand in heavy, embroidered clothing, in procession, in ceremony or in witness to a wonder. There are melting mountain tops and campfires, ghosts and graves, vast monuments and tiny moments that speak to the legacies a generation leaves, and to the promises it makes. (via Hosfelt Gallery)

Plastic caps and golden beans for “nine years of existence”. That is what the Island of life, composed by Satoshi Hirose since 2002, is made of. A collection of caps from plastic bottles consumed in nine years forming a pile of recyclable materials, everyday materials against a small niche of hidden golden beans. The base supporting the recycle mountain is oversize as an art object, the visitor enjoys it in its entirety, having the chance of going round it, but, in the same time, is hindered from imagining it as a “sculptural host” of a space. The common thread in all of Satoshi’s installations is their “unsolved” but positive size, able to build a relationship with the viewer, putting him at ease by following the sensorial interaction at which the work aims.

Decktwo is a French graphic designer, illustrator and graffiti artist. His famous series of lavatories, which he painted completely from the floor to the top only with marker pens in a tag style, is among his most spectacular and complex projects together with his spray can works.

These amazingly creative steampunk sculptures are created by talented French artist Pierre Matter. More on his website.

” I’m just an average guy who happened to find a talent in the later part of life. I was born in Bangladesh and moved with my parents to the United States when I was four, and have worked in various career fields. Art has been a part of my life for the past five years; it was a hobby that was supposed to just fill my free time, and has become the most important part of who I am as a person. People often ask me: what motivates you to paint? I give a simple reply: The thought that I am creating images that might one day hang on a wall and give someone pleasure. Many people spend their free time in different ways, but one day I realized that I did not want to look back and have to wonder if I really made the most of my time. So I taught myself how to paint with a start-up kit from a local art store. I never took an art class, and I certainly never imagined that five years later, I would have over 100 paintings. In my day job as a high school literature teacher, I try to help students appreciate the beauty of art and to pursue their own passions, just as I pursue mine. My journey in the art world has just begun, and I hope you can enjoy it with me.” Layes Hussain.