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PAUL KAIJU

Born as Paul Copeland, Paul “Kaiju” has been notorious for his ingenious skills with toy customization, sculpting, and many other crafts. He specializes in Kaiju customization, and his own resin toys. At the San Diego Comic Convention of 2010, he released his first sculpt-to-vinyl toy called the Boss Carrion. (via Vinyl-Creep)

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http://sweet-station.com/blog/2012/01/paul-kaiju/

Jonas Burgert

Jonas Burgert (born 1969, Berlin, Germany) is an artist based in Berlin. He has shown work in many exhibitions including Rohkunstbau at Stipendiaten in Berlin, Geschichtenerzähler at Hamburg Kunsthalle and Dis-Positiv at Staatsbank in Berlin. Burgert has exhibited internationally at museums and galleries such as Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut and Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy and was part of the Malerei Biennale in Stockholm in 2003. He is represented by Produzentengalerie in Hamburg and BlainSouthern in London.

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http://sweet-station.com/blog/2012/01/jonas-burgert/

Cristina Cordova

Cristina Cordova is a studio artist living in Penland,NC. Originally from Puerto Rico, she received her BA from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez and went to earn her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. In 2005 she concluded a three year residency at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She was the recipient of an American Craft Council Emerging Artist Grant as well as a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Award. She has taught workshops in Puerto Rico & the US.

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http://sweet-station.com/blog/2012/01/cristina-cordova/

Damian Fulton

Damian Fulton is fascinated by the dichotomy and duality of Los Angeles seaside culture. The proximity of one of the world’s most diverse and congested cities to the Pacific coast provides fertile material for Fulton’s dark take on the California dream. Perhaps it’s in the water. Surfploytation continues Fulton’s twisted ride down Pacific Coast Highway where Surf City is way more gritty than groovy. Car chases, girls with guns, noir nostalgia, a visual narrative that reads like conceptual art for a fictional surfploytation movie. For this show, experimentation with new materials native to his environment, balsa wood and fiberglass, skate decks, and surfboard fins, have this new work amped up to 11.

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http://sweet-station.com/blog/2012/01/damian-fulton/

HAH ! JD Hancock

JD Hancock is family-oriented cyborg who loves making stuff on the Internet and photographing miniature pop culture icons. I love Hancock’s humourous miniture storm trooper photoshoots; they give personality to Darth Vader’s personal expressionless-white-man-made mobile background.

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http://sweet-station.com/blog/2012/01/jd-hancock/

Keith Thompson

Keith Thompson‘s stylized creations have colorful names and really interesting background stories to compliment them. Some of Thompson’s art prints can be seen being used in the movie Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.

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http://sweet-station.com/blog/2012/01/keith-thompson/

Alexandra Manukyan

” I focus on combining traditional oil painting techniques with surrealist symbolism to communicate the immediate and lasting impact of technological innovations on the human body and psyche. One recurring motif in my paintings often appears as the feminine form bearing the burdens of worldly grief and mistakes on her body bowing in resignation to a seemingly inevitable fate: the acquiescence of the corporeal state to the encroaching dominance of modern technologies conjoining itself like an apathetic demon of silicon and circuitry cursing more than fulfilling promises of beauty and comfort.” – Alexandra Manukyan

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http://sweet-station.com/blog/2012/01/alexandra-manukyan/

( really awesome work - )

Ivan Venkov

King’s Folly is a project by Slovakian artist and sculptor Ivan Venkov ‘based on the ideas of polarity and exploitation, the composition polarizes the pure natural element, which resonates in black sculpt of the deer and the golden manifestation of allegorical cabinet, which aggregates elements of mundane ravishment.’ It is created in homage to Joris-Karl Huysman’s novel, À rebours (aka ‘Against Nature’).

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http://sweet-station.com/blog/2012/01/king%E2%80%99s-folly-by-ivan-venkov/

Doug Bloodworth

‘Doug Bloodworth’s artistic perspective is influenced by childhood affection for American western classics and the quintessential youth of the American dream. A combination of Pop Art, photography and textural paint strokes, his work was born from inspirations that began when he was a boy, and have grown into the refined craft of photorealism.’

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http://sweet-station.com/blog/2011/12/doug-bloodworth/

p.s. -but it IS WRONG to do this sort of thing to comics,.....don't think its not !

Last of this this more or less arbitrary sampling,...( more my personal whim than anything else . . . .)

Chloe Early

These beauties belong to artist Chloe Early whom we have blogged about before.

‘Chloe Early’s current works are oil paintings on linen. Large scale painterly montages, she works with an abstracted urban landscape background placing interchangeable motifs: divers, balloons, stars, herds of animals, always hinting at the opposing themes of apocalypse and redemption.’ Check out Chloe’s new works, you’ll be glad you did.

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http://sweet-station.com/blog/2011/12/chloe-early-2/