David Mack is the award-winning creator, author and artist of KABUKI published by Image Comics, and the writer and artist of Daredevil (one of the top ten best selling comics in the United States) from Marvel Comics. He is never without his sketchpad
Melissa Dowell is a member of Blood Dumpster, a notoriously cutting edge Brooklyn art collective. Here she talks about artistic motivation, campfire stories, and the origins of the collective’s name.
Tara McPherson is one of the world’s top pop surrealist artists. Known for her heartless, candy pink and turquoise damsels, her staring balloons and her sweetly creepy creatures, McPherson has exhibited from the Phillipines to Sao Paulo. Along the way, she’s created an extraordinary range of merch.
Jason “Stuntkid” Levesque is one of the most staggeringly accomplished digital artists I’ve met. He’s done his pastel pretty, aesthetically subversive designs for clients like Nike, Tori Amos and Marvel Comics. Here we talk about pixels, muses, and the beauty of disgust.
Yumna is a young photographer working in New York who’s evocative, color saturated work captures milieus from NYC fashion parties to the gingerbread skyscrapers of Yemen.
Your photography ranges from reportage in the Middle East to fashion work. What unifying elements do your pieces share?
Starting college, I was never sure of what I wanted to do because I always felt as though I had so many interests and was generally good at teaching myself pretty much anything I wanted to know. My initial interests were fashion related. My blog focused on my personal style and I was keen on developing something that was unique but not out of my financial realm. People took interest to my sense of style and I eventually began selling vintage pieces on eBay. I would do everything for the store from photographing to modeling to advertising… all on my own. After finishing my associate’s degree, I took a trip to the Middle East. It was my first time being there since I was a little girl and having obviously matured since then, I had the ability to take in a whole new side of my life that had been so untouched for years. Documenting my entire experience was only natural for me. I felt as though I had opened a whole new realm of my life-I felt so in love with my roots and wanted to share it with everyone-just the same as I had been doing with pretty much every other aspect of my life. The Middle East and fashion are two things I absolutely love-but sharing it all is truly my passion and basis for most everything I create.
Katelan Foisy wears many hats. An artist, author, magazine founder (Constellation Magazine), pinup model and tarot card reader, Katelan weaves together disparate mediums into a life that is truly art. Find out about her many projects below.
Yao Xiao is a familiar site everywhere from pillowfight flashmobs to the ultra-posh Ace Hotel. A rising young illustrator, Yao captures New York life (whether street life or night life) with a lightening fast pen. In our interview below, we talk about the Chinese art scene, style, and hiding in the corners at parties.
Sorrel Smith is one of the most glamorous creatures I’ve ever met. A painter and costumer working in Paris, Sorrel is a fixture at the Carnival in Venice, runs Dr. Sketchy’s in Paris, and never leaves the house without being fully decked out in vintage finery. Her art is equally awe inspiring- meticulously historical paintings of pinup beauties stripping their flesh off rather than their stockings. In our interview below, we talk about glamor, influence, and what to wear to a costume party in Constantinople.
The Artists Wanted booth is made of win.
I’m standing at the VIP preview for Scope Art Fair, the hip, more affordable sister of the the contemporary art megalopolis Armory. The entire fair is one of those white warehouses on the Hudson that it takes a very cold, windy walk to reach.
But the Artists Wanted booth made it worth it. In the sea of the aloof, formal work that often characterizes The Good Stuff, Artists Wanted has splashed out the colour. Their walls are pink and gold baroque, their floor is checkerboard, and an albino satyr is giving me some sausage slices. Then I look up. In the center of the booth is a throne- a gold Boschian nightmare- a Carravagio come to life. On top, another satyr is throwing meat into a grinder. Which is being slowly crapped out from cow corpse into sausages. Which is being devoured by artsnobs. Including me.
For the past 6 seasons (roughly 2 years) Dirtee Hollywood has been collaborating with ChinaShop’s own artist / contributor Molly Crabapple. She creates whimsical illustrations for the Los Angeles based cut n sew t-shirt line. Owner David Long spoke with us about his love for Molly and his quest to create the best designs in the name of fashion.