“My generation is not as familiar with Bible stories or ancient mythology but they all watched TV. So I can paint these modern characters and make a reference to historical painting, I can make a reference to a TV show and people either get it or they don’t get it…”

Isabel Samaras‘ paintings…

Golden silence, 2002

Virginie Barre at Galerie Loevenbruck.

The teenage stories series, by Julia Fullerton-Batten…

Bike accident, 2005

I do photography because… I need to produce the images which are provocative but not exploitative that I would enjoy looking at.

Nazif Topçuoğlu, photographer.

Disco inferno, by Christoph Steinmeyer.

Toshio Saeki: master of Japanese erotic illustration.
Here, here and here.

Brian Walker‘s photography…

Afke Golsteijn, Ruben Taneja and Floris Bakker are  Idiots…
They define teir works as contemporary fairytales…

No title, 2006

Scary, stereoview art from the 19th century…

here, here and here…

Anatomical imagery proliferated, detailed and informative but also whimsical, surreal, beautiful, and grotesque — a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self.

Dream Anatomy.

The dreamy,  creepy, humorous atmospheres of Esao Andrews‘ paintings…

Letting go

His work explores themes of alienation, dispossession, and perversity that exists behind the facade of contemporary western society. By subverting mainstream iconography from the advertising, entertainment and political spectrum he creates a visual and conceptual framework that is bold, confronting and often contraversial.

Ben Frost is dead.