Yuko Shimizu – The Beautiful and the Grotesque
I follow a few different artists on Behance, including Yuko Shimizu. I wrote about Shimizu a while back but as a quick recap, she was born in Japan and worked 11 years doing corporate PR in Tokyo until burning out (her only…
Miroco Machiko
I found a pretty nifty art blog, today, Eye-Likey. It is a visually rich, easy-to-find-your-way-around-in kind of website that showcases a pile of really great artists. One artist I hadn’t heard of before (among several) is the incredibly awesome illustrator/ artist…
Chie Aoki
I saw a picture of Chie Aoki’s work on the Art Listings Professional blog and was pretty much blown away. These peculiar transformative sculptures are fairly opaque to me in terms of meaning but as visual object I find them,…
Lady Aiko
Vandalog has an interesting discussion going on about the role of women artists in the street art scene, and how they are often under-represented. While this is largely true, the question of why fewer women get involved with street art…
Yuko Shimizu update
I was checking out brwnpaperbag and it turns out there’s been a bunch of new stuff going on for Yuko Shimizu. I wrote about Shimizu a while back but as a quick recap, she was born in Japan and worked 11 years…