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Mark Bradford – Contemporary Urban Abstraction

By Patternbank On September 26, 2012 · In Inspiration

Mark Bradford is known for his grid-like abstract paintings combining collage with paints. Bradford’s “A Truly Rich Man is One Whose Children Run into His Arms Even When His Hands Are Empty” (2008), nearly 9 feet wide and 9 feet tall, according to Maxwell Heller in The Brooklyn Rail, “calls to mind the charred and shattered windshields of cars burned in riots—black, webbed with streaks of light, sleek. If studied section by section, it offers traces of the artist’s sensual, tactile process, revealing delicate layers of found material sliced and sanded, lacquered and pasted until transformed.” View more of his work here.

Michelle Hinebrook – Psychedelic Geometrics

By Patternbank On September 10, 2012 · In Inspiration

The marriage of psychedelic imagery and layers of geometric patterning create an explosive feast for the eyes. Brooklyn based artist and lecturer Michelle Hinebrook, uses traditional paint and digital imagery to create these inspiring Technicolor masterpieces.

Barbara Takenaga – Cosmic Horizons

By Patternbank On September 10, 2012 · In Inspiration

Barbara Takenaga’s paintings are like looking at an underwater kingdom, cosmic horizons dazzling in their infinite and radiant beauty. Swirls of graduated dots move across the painting like tentacles and sleeping sea urchins lurk beneath shimmering seas. There is real order to this seemingly chaotic pattern keeping the viewer both engaged and mesmerized at the same time. Formerly a printmaker, Barbara Takenaga lives and works in New York and Williamstown, MA. You can see more of her precise worlds at barbaratakenaga.com

Painted Editorial – Please!

By Patternbank On September 3, 2012 · In Inspiration

Elegant styling combined with the use of paint adds an artistic sense of fun to this beautiful editorial for Please! Magazine. The stunning 3D texture of the paint creates abstract patterns, and the covered face of the model provokes a curious visual for the viewer. Paint and art direction by graphic designer Leslie David, photography by Nagi Sakai.

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Charles Burwell – Intricate Patterns and Clashing Shapes

By Patternbank On August 30, 2012 · In Inspiration

These large scale paintings are a kaelidoscope of intricate patterns, clashing shapes and heavily layered paints that prompt the eye to look deeper into the canvases. His trademark vertical lines ever present as if they are dripping from the Art and his use of colour is unorthodox, bold and confident. Born in 1955, Charles Burwell earned a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at Yale in 1979. He is represented by the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia.

Kateryna Bilokur – Detail in Folk Art Florals

By Patternbank On August 29, 2012 · In Inspiration

Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur was a Ukrainian folk artist born in the village of Bohdanivka, Kiev region in 1900. Kateryna loved to paint flowers and you can see from these paintings how she became known for her interest in nature. The intricate detail of her paintings and subtle colours that appear to fade into the distance are just beautiful. Katerina Bilokur died June 9, 1961. Her creativity has won her general recognition and she was given the honourable title of Peoples’s Artist of the Ukrainian. For more stunning floral inspiration see wikipaintings.org

Joseba Eskubi – Organic Forms in Decomposition

By Patternbank On August 21, 2012 · In Inspiration

Surreal, dark and often macabre – the work of Joseba Eskubi has real power. In his own words he describes his paintings “I’m interested in organic forms in decomposition, soft and amorphous qualities that accentuate the tactile sense of vision. There is movement and tension, an internal force that pulls things toward the abyss. I usually work at several works at the same time, with the intention of expanding the possibilities of each theme. I try to make the final effect as something obsessive, repetitive, with a certain tone and atmosphere. The idea is that each image has a temperature, a character like a portrait of an unknown thing until you create it. Generally I don’t represent specific elements, trying to maintain a certain ambiguity that allows the suggestion and evocation.” Check out more of his work on Flickr.

Future Past Pop Art Prints – Morgan Blair

By Patternbank On August 20, 2012 · In Graphics, Inspiration

Patternbank are loving the handcrafted neon bright ‘Pop Art ‘statements by Morgan Blair. Morgan is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is interested in using pattern, symbols, and pop culture references to explore hypothetical scenarios from a cryptic future-past. Her work has been exhibited around the U.S. and internationally. See more of her work at morganblair.com