Mark Warren Jacques is a Portland based visual artist.

Mark seems to me to be the perfect example of the new Romantic movement that seems to be emerging in the visual arts. The trend is typified by the use of simplistic form and a striking combination use of color. Often the artist uses, the two to convey pseudo -religiously themed subject matter.

His Website

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Meathaus is a resource for finding out about new visual artist that specialize in weird/ occultic / americana drawings ala Lala above. It comes highly recommended and apparently they sell books periodically as well.

This is a piece from a brooklyn based visual artists known simply as Lala.

Personally, I like the work because, while I think there is a lot of this going on, I think this example in particular shows a strong sensibility for colour and for layout. I think that the overall emotional effect of the subject matter (creepy) is rendered mute by the barrage of color.

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Andy Gilmore is a designer/ artist based out of Rochester, New York. He has a show currently opening at the POOL gallery in Berlin

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This is an image from a San Fransisco based visual artist named Lawrence Yang. His blog can be found here.

I suggest you take a look around the rest of his site.

Using painting, drawing and abstraction as markers of a space outside of the verbal and within the visible, my work examines slow and sensate exchanges between perception, matter, and psychology that develop in peripheral spaces over time. Searching for meaning in the minor and the overlooked, my practice works on dislocating hierarchical terms of the sublime to focus on the links between perception and emotion as they unfold in unspoken events of cognitive illumination. Each piece is developed slowly through stages of meditative procedures, abrupt change, and actions of chance, working towards creating a compressed expanse of time that echoes the intense shifts in which we "see" in a new light, both inwardly and outwardly. The works open a gradually revealing field for optical intensities, luminous intervals, individual discoveries, and opportunities for silence.


Here is Jessica Dickinson's website.