Hilary Berseth

Artists from Rodin to Warhol to Mark Kostabi have outsourced the construction of their work. Hilary Berseth goes them one better: He constructs basic frameworks of wire and wax, then lets teams of tiny yellow-and-black art fabricators finish the job. “I knew they were ordered and regimented,” the Pennsylvania artist says about his honeybees, which built the three otherworldly sculptures on view at Eleven Rivington. “I had an intuition that I’d be able to organize that, architecturally.”

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Vito Frangione

Vito Frangione was born in Venosa (Basilicata) in 1983, Actually he works and lives in Rome.

Bobby Neel Adams

Bobby Neel Adams was born in Black Mountain, NC, a magical place as the former home to the Bauhaus. Working without the aid of digital imaging, and by tearing and gluing the pictures, he creates what he calls “Age Maps,” the kind of thing forensic artists might use to discover what someone might look like who has not been seen for some time. It’s an interesting concept.

Bryan Nash

Bryan Nash Gill was born and raised in the same rural, north-western corner of Connecticut were he works as an artist today. His sculptures and drawings are heavily influenced by the New England countryside but also by geographical regions as diverse as Carrara, Italy, New Orleans, and northern California where he has lived and worked.

Peter Rolfe

Peter Rolfe studied to work with wood for a long time. The first five years he simply watched the work of masters and learned to handle solid hardwood with traditional methods. The next seven years, he is more trained in modern techniques of processing wood. Due to his experience today Peter Rolfe easily creates furniture from simple boxes for jewelry, to complex sculptural installations.

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Beautiful life

Mauro Perucchetti

Mauro Perucchetti’s work unites Pop aesthetics with social comment, addressing some of the most pressing and difficult issues in today’s society in a way that is subtle and accessible, without being trite, shocking or obscure. Mauro is above all an artist who is connected; he sees the bigger picture and world affairs and has his finger on the pulse of contemporary society.

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Who Killed Bambi?

Damien Steven Hirst

Damien Steven Hirst was born in England in 1965.
Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde.

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Constant Siege

Ione Rucquoi

Ione Rucquoi was born in 1975 in Oxford.

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Kazuki Takamatsu

Mr. Kazuki was born in 1978 and was graduated in Tohoku University of Art and Design.

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Terry Richardson

Terry Richardson is an international celebrity as well as one of the most prolific and compelling photographers of his generation. Known for his uncanny ability to cut to the raw essence of whomever appears before his lens, Mr. Richardson's vision is at once humorous, tragic, often beautiful, and always provocative.
Born in New York City and raised in Hollywood, Terry began photographing his environment while attending Hollywood High School and playing in a punk rock band. And he hasn't stopped shooting since.

Théo Gènnitsakis

Théo Gènnitsakis: greek visual designer (Born in 1982, 02 December) from Thessaloniki who lives in Paris and plays with Athens.

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Roland Tiangco

Dirt Po(or)ster by Roland Tiangco.
A poster the recipient completes by revealing spot-varnished type with hands made dirty by handling the poster.

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World Famous Design Junkies

Christian Weber

Christian Weber (b. 1971) is a visual artist born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A few years after his birth his family moved to Florida where he started taking photographs at the age of fourteen. He later graduated from the Southeast Center for Photograpahic Studies which in turn propelled him to New York City into a career in the arts.
Creating assured images, Weber demonstrates a raw elegance that is at once provisional and precise. His celebrated portraits, architecture, and landscapes reveal a talent equally open to the verve and beauty of contemporary life.

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