Recently I've happened upon these two artist's and their amazing and inspirational work. Maren Esdar and AJ Fosik. Though their work is completely and utterly different, there is a common thread between them- they have taken their own unique style and way of working and explored it to its extremes. By staying with it and seeing where it will take them, they have created a amazing body of work. So wherever your design or art work leads you- stick with it!
In the case of Maren Esdar her work graced many a page in my notebooks in college. There is a sense of ephemeral, fleeting beauty in her illustrations, combined with the playful and bizarre.A student of mine had recently created some collages that brought Esdars work to mind and thus I found her site and rediscovered her work. She currently resides in Hamburg and you can find many a beautiful illustration on her website, MarenEsdar.com
AJ Fosik's creatures need their very own film to star to in. I'm truly blown away by these creations. I'm inclined to call them 'pretend monsters', or 'pretty monsters', as there really is something pretty and secretly charming about them. The combination of playful colors and rows of teeth/eyes/ jagged edges is brilliant . These sculptures are so satisfying to the eye- the colors, the perfect symmetry, the detailed layered. Delicious. He is currently is based in Philadelphia and had a solo show in San Francisco last year. Maybe London could be his next stop as it's slightly closer to home?
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