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Kevin Umaña's colourful, sharp-edged abstractions
Artist Kevin Umaña’s work caught our eye recently with his super strong colour palette and bold, graphic forms. Originally from San Francisco, Kevin studied for his BFA there before hopping over to New York where he is currently based.
To create his minimal paintings and sculptures, Kevin draws inspiration from everyday life. He sees the beauty in the mundane shapes and forms we see daily, and distills them through his hard-edged, sharp aesthetic lens. He’s inspired by colour balance and organisation of forms, as well as Scandinavian architecture and design, its “mathematical approach to modernity”. We...
We love Math Bass' super flat super perfect paintings
Math Bass is an artist who uses colour, geometry and flatness in a way that makes our little hearts soar. Looking at her work is like reading visual poetry, decoding the abstracted and ambiguous forms which skip playfully across her canvasses.
The Los Angeles based artist has been working at her instantly recognisable vernacular for a few years now, creating a library of sharp symbols which act as a visual language. Don’t think that you’ll get to the bottom of her message though, as she notes “the ambiguity of an object, its function and its...
Antti Kalevi knows about colour, texture and bodacious forms
Melting, psychedelic patterns and surface design from Catalina Velásquez G
Catalina Velásquez G is a London-based design student whose obsessions with bright colours, botanical gardens and festivals shine right through in her work. After completing her Bachelor of Design at the University of Los Andes in 2012, she is currently studying at Central Saint Martins to smash out her Masters in Communication Design.
Catalina skips across the realms of graphic design, art direction, illustration and visual communication in her work like it’s no thang. Her penchant for making patterns and surface design blazes through in her folio, which is kind of like looking into a sun on...
Doodles of delightful texture and colour from Gizem Vural
We’re totally enthralled by Istanbul-born, now New York-based illustrator Gizem Vural’s use of colour and texture. So much energy and excitement, we feel like we’re moving with the drawings when we lookout them. What’s more amazing, is that this talented lady never knew she wanted to be an illustrator!
The usual story for illustrators is that they’ve been “drawing since they could hold a pencil”, yada yada. Not the case here. Gizem was studying graphic design for six years in her hometown in Istanbul before she realised she wanted to be an illustrator. Drawing now...