Urban Art Blog

Glasgow-based British hyperrealist artist Paul Cadden creates photographic images from pencil and nothing more. See all his work at his Deviant Art portfolio.

Until 1991 American artist Marlene Carroll Couri was a major player in the fashion industry, staging and choreographing major catwalk events across NY and throughout the USA. After discovering a buzz for painting she’s become the queen of “shine”. Couri’s work looks like something from a toy shop window. The ceramic glazed look to Couri’s [...]

As soon as Sam Spratt graduated in 2010 he became the (first) in-house staff illustrator for popular media conglomerate Gawker. Since then he’s moved from strength to strength applying his expert oil painting techniques in digital format for clients like Kanye, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga His abstractions of form, colour and even to some [...]

Matthew Davis is a rare talent. A painter with a unique method, a true reinvention of the rather staid art of Pointillism, Davis’ pooling of household gloss paint on to canvas captures our shared and perceived reality in all its scientific glory. Vision, physical form, colour and light, everything around us is merely the result [...]

This is your last chance to catch Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori‘s début exhibition entitled ‘Goldfish Salvation’ at the ICN gallery which closes today! Fukahori paints acrylics on to clear resin which he pours into containers creating awesome realistic 3D paintings.

 Connect10, a national competition for UK wide cultural venues to win an artist-led event and a share of £7000, announces the artist line-up. Culture24′s new project for Museums at Night, Connect10, matches ten contemporary artists with ten museums and galleries for a series of special one-off Museums at Night events over the weekend of May [...]

Surrealist artist and illustrator Sachin Teng based in NYC really knows how to mash up his beautifully drafted art, almost to the degree that his unique iconography subvertises just about anyone and anything. Undermining the tools of corporate media and mass consensus for a better future for all. “Art is a means of visual communication, [...]

  Hsin-Yao Tseng is an amazing young painter, but his street paintings of San Francisco at night really get to me. Nice one to start 2012 with I think. Check out the whole portfolio at www.hsinyaotseng.mosaicglobe.com

  Belgian artist Stéfan Nandancée is a hyperrealist in more ways than one. Nandancée is a highly talented and creates superbly detailed paintings allegorically covering subjects dear to my own heart i.e death, Western society and the unreliability of the human condition. For more stunning hyperreal art visit www.stefannandancee.com.

  Stranger Factory‘s Winter Salon 2011 is a group exhibition of new smaller accessible works from Circus Posterus’s artist collective running until January 3, 2012 in Albuquerque. The show features the following artists: • Kelly Denato • Archer Dougherty • DrilOne • Illworx • Mikie Graham • Gary Ham • Zak Hutson • Chauskoskis • [...]