John Wentz - The Art of Dystopia

 

John Wentz is a contemporary artist born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area where he graduated from the Academy of Art University with multiple awards. Since then, he has had 3 solo exhibitions in San Francisco and numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, as well as being published in many prestigious publications.

John's interest in art began at the age of 6 when he first discovered Batman and Spiderman comic books. After years of copying comics panel by panel he worked in the commercial arts as a muralist, billboard creator and freelance illustrator. Bleak landscapes and decaying carnival structures serve as backdrops to Wentz’ evocatively striking paintings. Amid these landscapes, figures roam and stare in gas masks, interacting with the ever constant morphing universe around them - an intoxicating symbol representing the will to survive among the dehumanizing effects of war.

Images Courtesy of [John Wentz]

Ransom & Mitchell - CineMagic Photography

Ransom & Mitchell is a San Francisco based fine art, still & motion creative team consisting of director-photographer Jason Mitchell and set designer-photo illustrator Stacey Ransom. Together these two artists create vastly meticulous photographic portraits and exquisite scenarios. Through a matchless mixture of cinematic lighting, sensationally designed sets invoke the master painters of yore and create a dark world that simply cannot exist, but impractically does. To create a stationary object that moves the mind and soul and screams of a vast dialogue running in motion, is true artistic genius. These are the people I admire; the ones who don't simply see things, but envision and create them.

Images Courtesy of [Ransom & Mitchell]

The Haunting Fine Art of Redd Walitzki

 

Redd Walitzki is German born artist based out of Seattle’s artist district; Pioneer Square. She graduated from the Cornish College of the Arts with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2007 with a concentration in painting, video animation and print making. Though being the multidisciplinary artist she is, has also been known to work with ball-jointed dolls and the like. Her paintings focus on the ever present struggle between entropy and beauty; and the inevitable loss of the unattainable fashioned by modern desires. All created by an an ethereal and beautifully haunting palette of colors that have been known to define her magnificent body of work.

"I love art, because I think good art can do that. It can be a subtle way to communicate with others, without having to preach to them or argue."

 

Images Courtesy of [Redd Walitzki]

Shingo 'Shichigoro' Matsunuma - Mechanical Innocence

Shingo 'Shichigoro' Matsunuma is a Japanese artist based out of Yokohama, Japan. While attending Tama Arts University in Tokyo, Shingo studied oil painting but fell in love with Photoshop and the digital arts which subsequently turned him onto game design as well as working with such brands as BlackMilkClothing. His imaginative, but dark mechanized creatures are both human and fantasy – a surreal blend of dark perfection.