Seven Seas Of Cultural Inking

The clashing of two cultures of Japanese and European heritage, Nanami Cowdroy is a self-taught artist who fused two different cultures to create these beautiful illustrations. Nanami grew up with contrasting cultures which explains the influence in her artwork. She was born in Sydney, Australia with frequent trips to Tokyo, Japan to visit her Mother's family. Growing up in a family of artists, being creative is just second nature. Nanami Cowdroy uses a mixed media of pen & pencil, ink, water color, spray paint, and a hint of digital elements to complete her artwork.

Figurative Distortion

Blending between abstraction and realism, Alyssa Monks painted these images of facial impression distorted by steam and water on glass. Artist's statement, "The result of this pushing and pulling of realism is a confrontation of the tension between mortality and vitality. Striving for anatomical and realistic accuracy, it is her intention to convey an arresting vision that compels the viewer to feel their own humanness." Her medium is oil on panel, as well as oil on linen.

Alyssa Monks has a long list of education and experiences, graduated with an MFA from the New York Academy of Arts, studied at Montclair State College, and Lorenzo de'Medici in Florence. She is currently teaching flesh painting and figure painting at Montclair State College of Fine Arts in New Jersey.

Exhibitions:

Intimacy!

Kunst Museum Ahlen

Germany

January - March 2010

Solo Exhibition

DFN Gallery

New York, USA

April 7 - May 8, 2010

Noyes Museum

Two Person Show

Oceanville, New Jersy, USA

June - August 2010

Solo Exhibition

David Klein Gallery

Michigan, USA
October 2010

Numbers Generate Beauty

These images are created with codes and numbers, programmed in Adobe Flash software. Erik Natzke uses programming to create his tools and pick the colors in order to generate the final image. Some compare Erik to a sculptor than a painter. A painter starts with a blank canvas, whereas Erik would change, alter, and strip the codes in order to modify the outcome of the shapes and colors. Using nature as his subject matter, his work consist a great spectrum of colors and saturation. Erik Natzke stated, "The creative process is not confined to the programming room, or to moments when he contemplates nature. Rather, it is a continuous lending and borrowing of shapes, patterns, colors, processes and dynamic between the material and immaterial worlds. Form follows nature."

Erik is an interactive designer. He studied Communication Design at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.