Illustrations and digital collages by Luis Toledo. Here and here…

The Lowbrow Tarot Project will showcase 23 amazing artists who will use their creative genius and unique style to take on the 22 Major Arcana [+ the card back] and create 23 new works of art in the rugged glow of the lowbrow art movement to be displayed in an exhibition at La Luz de Jesus on October 1, 2010, along with a hard cover tabletop book and full color tarot card deck to come.

Artists: Carrie Ann Baade, Christopher Ulrich, Edith Lebeau, Cate Rangel, Kris Kuksi, Chris Mars, Christopher Umana, Chris Conn, Brian M. Viveros, Claudia Drake, Heather Watts, Molly Crabapple, David Stoupakis, Laurie Lipton, Patrick “Star 27” Deignan, Chet Zar, Jessica Joslin, Danni Shinya Luo, Jennybird Alcantara, Angie Mason, Scott G. Brooks, Aunia Kahn and Daniel Martin Diaz.

[via notes from somewhere bizarre]

Figurative ceramic sculpture by Jessica Stoller.

From the artist’s statement: “I use this historic process to create intricate figurative ceramic sculptures that challenge and explore notions of idealized femininity. I cast, sculpt and create wayward and transgressive female figures. Incorporating period fashion, powerful historic women, and imaginative scenarios my works deals with notions of costume, sexuality and the subjugation of the female body. The notion of the decorative as weak and inherently female is subverted as the figures depicted are purposely innocent and sexual, self sacrificing and violent, powerful and unaware of the power they posses.”

Brooklyn-based artist and designer Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS, is well know all over the world for his humorous and challenging work.

KAWS’s first aesthetic influences came from skateboarding, as did his familiarity with New York City. Around 1991, he started marking his name in different areas of New Jersey and Manhattan. By the time he finished high school, he was mostly focused on graffiti and started intervening on advertising billboards. While exploring new strategies and locations for his work, he obtained a tool for opening bus shelter advertisement boxes. This allowed KAWS to seize the posters, integrate his work, and then replace them. He added an inflated skull with crossed bones and X-ed-out eyes; sometimes the skull was part of a serpentine-looking body that wrapped around the models, a blend that was humorous and daring. Word got around, and when it came to the point where the posters were pulled down and collected almost as soon as KAWS had replaced them, he decided to move on. Next he channeled his creativity into his studio practice, as well as products he developed and distributed on his own and in his boutique in Tokyo, OriginalFake, in partnership with Medicom Toy.

His firts solo museum exhibition of the work of, includes his most recent paintings, sculptures, and drawings, as well as a survey of his iconic street art, apparel, product and graphic designs is open at Aldrich Museum until January 2nd 2011.

The show is curated by Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, who also edited the forthcoming monograph published by Skira/Rizzoli International (out in November). This book is going to be awesome, don’t miss it!
You can preorder it here.

Laughing Squid posted some amazing photos of Ron English last exhibition, “Status Factory”. The show features over 100 new works by the artist at Opera Gallery New York.

see the complete gallery here.

Abject Expressionism, a book about Ron English’s work

Yury Ustsinau is a designer, artist and illustrator based in Germany. His total-black digital drawings are mesmerizing!