Category — Arts

Artist Riki Takaoka documents every meal he eats by drawing or painting it. Now if that isn’t a way to keep up speed art abilities, I don’t know what is. Unless he takes his time and eats all his hot meals cold.

You can check out his diet on his website at Riki’s Food Blog

Via Lost At E Minor

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Previously posted super artist Jason Chan gets a piece of his work into Playboy.

Check out Jason’s blog

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Previously posted Origamu creator Mu Pan took part in Scion Space’s Giant Robot curated recent Papershapers show. His work looks even better when presented in the exhibition!

Brookyn-based Mu Pan took the theme of historical and mythological characters from his paintings and had them take over the Scion Space.

Check out Mu Pan’s Flickr site for more photos

Check out Mu Pan’s website

Via NotCot

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Brendan Tang is an Asian Canadian Artist who works in Ceramics. Brendan contacted us with details of his work, which on the surface, is a remix of old world China and new world Japan. The output is some unique and fantastic work that fuses together mecha parts with traditional Chinese vase designs!

The work conceptually touches on issues of cultural appropriation, hybridization and body/technology relationships.

I also loved Brendan’s series, Santa is dead which explores the power of technology as a tool of social conditioning. Brendan skins, dissects and displays children’s “interactive” toys in an empirical fashion, intending to literally reveal the lifeless, corporate underpinnings beneath the seemingly innocent exterior of these plush toys.

Check more work on Brendan Tang’s website

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Asian American magazine Giant Robot is proud to present Tree Show V. In the tradition of its predecessors, this group exhibition will feature arbor-inspired pieces by painters, illustrators, and other creators from street art, indie comics, printmaking, design, and crafty art backgrounds.

A reception featuring many of the artists will be held from 6:30pm - 10:00pm
on Saturday, April 18th.

Tree Show V at GRSF, April 18 – May 13, 2009
Click for more information about Giant Robot

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Justine Lai’s has a series of paintings that depict her having sex with each president of the United States. The paintings are provocative and a blunt comment on race, ethnicity, and sexuality in America.

More on Justine Lai’s website

Via LostAtEMinor

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Cleveland-born, Brooklyn-based artist Thu Tran creates magic-marker character drawings, plush landscape installations, and glass birthday cakes. Its the landscapes that have caught my attention!

More on LostAtEMinor

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Korean artist U-Ram Choe constructs these kinetic creature sculptures that mix science and technology with art.

Inspired by science fiction and the otaku culture of manga and anime, his mechanized vision of nature – replicating flowers, insects, birds, and sea life – references both the medieval and the futuristic.

Read more on Flavorpill’s Daily Dose

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This funky fella caught my eye. Its the Koibito which according to its Japanese artist creator Yoskay Yamamoto, is a “loved one“. Reminds me of The Host…

From MunkyKing:

Yoskay Yamamoto is a rising Japanese artist in the LA art scene. His varied work spanning painting and sculpture blends pop iconic characters from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements, balancing his Asian heritage with urban pop art. Central to his work the is combination of apparently innocuous human characters with larger than life mystical forces and symbols.

Says Yoskay:

“Once upon a time I had a goldfish named Tuna.
But he passed away because of my laziness and mistreatment….
So I painted him for his memory…….
But at same time Koibito symbolizes the sense of alienation that I felt growing up in Cali…
It’’s kind of like the phrase ” fish out of water”….
I felt and still feel like I don’t completely fit in my environment……both in Japan and the US……”

Get the seven inch vinyl Koibito for $80 on Munky King

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Illustrator Travis Coburn created this piece for Discovery Network used in the promotion of a Ted Koppel documentary on China’s emerging middle class.

TavisCoburn.com

Via Pop Wuping

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