Brittany Zagoria <--Born in 1987, Madison, CT; Lives and works in El Cerrito, CA. In 2011, Brittany received her BFA in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Upon acceptance to SAIC, she was granted their merit scholarship, and during her time there, she was accepted into their upper-division painting program. As a senior in high school, she received the Congressional Art Award. Her work has been exhibited in in The Gene Siskel Film Center, Betty Rymer Gallery, Sullivan Gallery, and the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Mark Moore Gallery in L.A. and featured in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

If there is one thing I love about blogging, it’s the chance it has given me to inspire and connect with like-minded people. One in particular is ‘Emily Blythe Jones, a phenomenally talented artist living and working in Los Angeles. Here’s what she says about her work: ” I was raised in a conservative religious household, and was indoctrinated with the belief that everyone lives by the same moral code. Upon discovering the imperfections of my own family and realizing other ideologies exist in the world, I realized that there are no absolutes. There are too many variables to conclude that there is any one truth, so I shed the skin of my former self and began redefining who I am through observation of the world and the desire for equality at the center of my propulsion. In my work, I explore this shift in my moral compass and depict images of my physical struggle to understand the vast array of human experience, and the anxiety that I feel from the many opposing viewpoints all battling to be heard. I attempt to reconcile my former beliefs through my work by examining the disillusionment my upbringing caused. By acting as a voyeur, I examine the lives of people and reveal behaviors or practices that my former self would have considered taboo. I seek to communicate empathy by revealing my physical behaviors through self portraits illustrated in conceptual representation. I tell stories of empathy and atonement within the figurative tradition and I am influenced by the artist’s ability to tell stories to communicate themes of justice and equality within the tumultuous environment that is our world today.”

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Artist Julmard Vicente has been sharing his beautiful artworks on DeviantArt. When one of his paintings landed my email, it certainly wet my appetite to see more.

‘The mixed-use development, Marina Lofts, in downtown Fort Lauderdale seeks to infuse a currently run-down stretch along the New River with a thriving pedestrian friendly public space thereby attracting new residents into its development. Totaling 1,000 rental apartments, 10,000 sq ft of restaurants and 25,000 sq ft of retail, the mixed-use development is broken into three phases. The Florida-based developer, Asi Cymbal, expects the project to have a positive long-term economic benefit to the city and local community of Fort Lauderdale.’ (via ArchDaily)

” Model/Prop Maker in film and tv for a few years. Worked at Madame Tussauds London for a while playing with wax. Always a Portrait Sculptor though!” – Steve Scott

Nelson Leiner( Sao Paulo , January 16 of 1932 ) is a Brazilian painter, designer, teacher, and installation artist; Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

Ishibashi Yui <-- 1985 Born in Okayama; (2010) Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course of Tama Art University, Tokyo.

Nicola Costantino was born in Rosario (1964) where she studied Fine Arts, produced and exhibited her first works, and also learned the new sculpture techniques that influenced the concept of her production; the molds of human and animal bodies cast from the original that characterize her work. In 1994 with the support of Pablo Suárez, she attended the Barracas Workshop of Antorchas Foundation coordinated by Suárez and Benedit. Shortly after moving to Buenos Aires, she spent a year in Houston, Texas, in the Core Program for Artists, where she began producing silicon human skin to make dresses and lavish coats with human hair necks. Nicola learned design and haute couture in her adolescence working with her mother in her clothes factory, which allowed her to create “Peletería humana” [Human Furriery] a work of the finest quality. (Continue…)