Duracell Print Campaign 2009 Europe/Asia
Ogilvy & Mather Paris
“Freelance artist whose work is mostly figurative. I paint, draw and construct using a flexible range of tangible media across a wide range of surfaces and contexts, allowing my practice to exist across various disciplines. The work I produce is largely self-directed, allowing me to explore a wealth of ideas and concepts which need to be realised.”
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Also can find Ed HERE.
Curtis William Readel was born in Iowa in 1981. He received a BFA from the University of Iowa in 2004 and a MFA with an emphasis in Printmaking from Northern Illinois University in the spring of 2009. Curtis is actively involved in developing a large body of work that addresses themes and ideas related to historical and contemporary socio-political issues. Through manipulated and distorted images, his work creates metaphors for deteriorated morality, self-indulgence, corruption, and societal downfall utilizing traditional and current techniques of printmaking, collage and drawing. He is represented by Packer Schopf Galley in Chicago, IL and the Jonas Gallery of Brussels.
Can check Curtis out HERE.
Manny Vega in East Harlem
Photo by Dani Mozeson, Tara Murray and Lois Stavsky
Manny Vega is an American painter, illustrator, printmaker, muralist, mosaicist, and set and costume designer. His work portrays the history and traditions of the African Diaspora that exist in the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Born in the South Bronx, New York, Vega studied at the High School of Art and Design in New York City from 1970-1974. He joined the artist collective Taller Boricua in 1979 where he studied through 1986. While there he was also a pupil of legendary Harlem printmaker Robert Blackburn at his Printmaking Workshop from 1980-1990.
Among Vega’s public art projects are a mosaic mural at the Pregones Theater in the Bronx, a mosaic mural portrait of Julia De Burgos in East Harlem, a series of mosaic panels for the 110 street train station, also in East Harlem, as well as a series of painted murals throughout New York City.
For many years, Vega has been teaching visual arts for organizations such as El Museo del Barrio, Arts Connection, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Caribbean Cultural Center. He has exhibited extensively in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Brazil.
Vega has created set designs and costumes for DanceBrazil and The American Place Theater.
Since 1984, Manny has been traveling to Salvador, Bahia in Brazil, where he has been initiated into the Afro Brazilian temple known as “Ile Iya Omi Ase Iya Masse”. As a member of the temple, his creative talents have been utilized to create some of the most elaborate ritual costumes and accessories. His work in this medium has been documented by the Fowler Museum of UCLA, the Smithsonian, as well as Dartmouth College. This body of work has been documented in the book, Beads, Body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe,[1]as well as the book, The Yoruba Artist.[2]
His current focus is to create a series of mosaic projects, based on study of classic Byzantine mosaic fabrication, to adopt this style to modern day imagery, which he calls “Byzantine Hip Hop”.
Can check out Manny’s website HERE.
Lusky is a creative artist from the U.K , has been on many blogs all over the internet.
