Mixed Media Artworks by Cody Hoyt

I have this weird obsession with masks, and it seems Cari Vander Yacht does to. Although she also has a weird obsession with a lot of other great things too.

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Gabe Gonzales uses a variety techniques, including risograph and silkscreen prints, to render chaotic and lively visual art. Gabe also runs a brilliant little publishing co with some friends, entitled Never Press. They’ll soon be publishing a comic by Michael Olivo, featured here recently.

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There’s a pervasive toxicity to billboard ads (or moreso advertising in general). Whether you’re of a different opinion in qualifying advertising as ‘toxic’, it’s undeniable that they fill the visual space around us — on metro walls, sidewalks, screens, and even in some rare and unjustified cases being draped over people’s apartment windows.

I have a feeling Berlin-based artist Vermibus also feels a slight toxicity emanating from advertising posters. In fact, he takes this idea of ads being toxic in a very literal ways: after grabbing the posters from behind their glass frames, he uses chemicals like gasoline, thinner and acetone to mutate the faces and skin of the featured models.

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Mixing handmade and digital elements, Ruben Martinho turns women in veils into barely recognizable shapes vibrant with saturated colors and liquid-like textures.

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“A set of risographs [by Rosie Eveleigh] based on Satre’s Nausea from component layers; an act in colour and form layering, finding images in repetition.” (more on Rosie’s creative process here)

‘My gaze travels slowly and wearily down over this forehead, these cheeks: it meets nothing firm, and sinks into the sand. Admittedly there is a nose there, two eyes and a mouth, but none of that has any significance, nor even human expression.’

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Francisca Pageo has a very minimal and design-like style of collage, creating multi-faceted creatures which mix elements of femininity, animality and sensuality.

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I have a particular soft spot for artworks using old and obsolete media or technologies for new and different purposes. In Benoit Jammes’ case, his use of old cassette tapes is entirely irrelevant to their original purpose, and yet a wonderful idea with impressive and humorous results.

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