Limited edition of silkscreen print Motomichi Nakamura

Motomichi Nakamura was born and raised in Japan; has lived in the U.S. and in Ecuador and currently works as a digital artist in Brooklyn, New York. Title: "Dream Texture 05" (Limited edition of artist-signed 50 silkscreen prints)
Paper: Arches 88 Size: 15" x 18" ( 38cm x 46cm ) Price: $75 click here

Print Han Hoogerbrugge

#1 Camouflage
Photographic print (Lamba print) Kodak Endura paper on aluminium, matte coating

120 x 140 cm (47 x 55 inch)
Edition of 3

After his graduation Han Hoogerbrugge (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) worked as an artist in the classical sense, he painted, drew, made installations and sculptures. In 1996 he made a self-portrait as a comic strip image for the first time. In that same year he started to explore the internet and created a website named ‘Modern Living’. At first he showed his comic strip on the website, but came to the conclusion the internet was not the right medium for a static comic.
The moment he discovers the possibilities of gif-animations, he starts to make small animations for the internet: the ‘Neurotica’ series. This series contains small animations in which Hoogerbrugge plays the main part, as his self-portrait in everyday neurotic situations. They reflect his dreams, hope, fears, demons, conflicts, questions, humor and lust. An attempt to visualize the contemporary spirit by the adventures of his leading character. Without language, only image. Yet gif-animations have restrictions, there’s no interactivity. In ’98 Hoogerbrugge discovers the animation program Flash. This software enables him to incorporate interactivity and sound to his animations. Flash turns out to be an ideal tool to shape his ideas and thoughts. From that moment on all his animations are made with Flash and the famous, typical Hoogerbrugge flicks were born.
Since 2002 Hoogerbrugge publishes short, sometimes absurd animations on his website ‘Nails’, where again, he is the main character. But contrary to the former Neurotica series, these animations are not set in a static interface. They are set free in space without a horizon, an even lonelier environment.
Nowadays Hoogerbrugge is fully utilizing the possibilities of broadband internet: more kilobytes mean more space for duration and interactivity.

Painting Henk van Vessem

Henk van Vessem was born in 1939 in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). He studied at the Academy of the visual arts in Rotterdam and became a knight of the order of Orange Nassaou. He is an established artist in the Dutch art world. For years his work was exhibited in a number of selective galleries. Through the years his work became part of a diversity of art collectors, private as well as public.

He finds his themes for his oil paintings, pastles and grpahic work mainly in landscapes. Especially, the influance of landscapes on his own conceptual world leads, although expressive and colourful, to an individually quit reproduction of his thoughts ans emotions. Although the poetical strain of Henk van Vessem is clearly recognisable in his work, this ia also visible in the titles he gives his pictures. They show the viewer the way to a characteristially, memorable experience.

The art historian and art observer generally keeos far from rhe subjective experience of the viewer. They like to keep a certain distance from the work, to be able to write about it with their intellect. Therefore one rarely reads that a work of art immobilizes, frightens or seduces the art critic (observer). Nevertheless, the experience of a work of art remains, however difficult to express in words, the main factor in the interaction between the work of art and the viewer. The countless people, eho through the years bought a work of Henk van Vessem and hung it in their living- or workspce, will certainly be able to tell about their experience ans it would be interesting to hear that. One thing is certain, they were not afraid of red, yellow and blue, that is so emphatically there. Let me give it a try, expressing in words my experience when looking at the pictures of Henk van Vessem. I experience the eternal fight between light and dark, between form and chaos, between stasis and movement. Above all I feel the dynamics of life. To see more of his works click here