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ABORTIST: nihil (Paris, France) ISSUE 17 Preview

April 23rd, 2012 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

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WHO: nihil

WHAT: photography / photo-manipulation

WHERE: Paris, France

WHEN: “Martyrs” – June 1st to July 10th in X-Lab gallery, Berlin. Guest: Norwegian digital artist Daria Endresen.

Visit nihil’s website for more amazing work at www.leventre.net

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ABORTIST: Claudio Parentela (Lier, Belgium) ISSUE 17 Preview

April 2nd, 2012 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

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WHO: Claudio Parentela

WHAT: Illustrator, Painter, Photographer, Cartoonist, Collagist

WHERE: Catanzaro, Italy

WHEN: “Spacetimewarp – SciFi Art” -The Funhouse Gallery (Detroit), 100 x MoPiA – The Museum of Porn in Art (Zurich)

WHY: Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, photographer, cartoonist, collagist, journalist for many years in the international contemporary art scene. He has collaborated and he collaborates with magazines of contemporary art, literary, comic zines in Italy and throughout the world… In 1999 he was special guest of the BREAK 21 FESTIVAL in Ljubliana (Slovenja) His obscure and crazy artworks are present and shown in many, many art galleries in the endless web, and in brick and mortar galleries the world over.

More of Marcin’s work can be “experienced” at Claudio Parentela.net. and at the following social media links:

http://claudioparentela.altervista.org
http://www.myspace.com/claudioparentela
http://twitter.com/claudioparentel
http://www.facebook.com/people/Claudio-Parentela/771153450

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ABORTIST: Marcin Owczarek (Lier, Belgium) ISSUE 17 Preview

February 20th, 2012 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

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WHO: Marcin Owczarek

WHAT: Photographer, Surrealist

WHERE: Lier, Belgium

WHEN: ‘Dystopia Exhibition’, Golden Brain Gallery, Paris, France.

WHY: Marcin Owczarek was born in 1985 in Wroclaw. At the age of twenty, he began studying photography at The College of Photography in Wroclaw, graduating with an honorable mention for his cycle Brave New World, which presented an idiosyncratic version of a future world. Owczarek is fascinated with the influence of new technologies over human life, particulary within urban
space. Focusing on the issues of mechanization and standardization, he tackles them in an anti-utopian style, depicting the total capture of the spirit by the machine world. He reflects: “In the times of old Celtic celebrations there were enormous figures made of wood or cane, filled with living people and them burned. I have the impression that nowadays we have superseded these Celtic figures by concrete blocks of flats, dead peninsulas, where we undergo geometrical unification and from which we shout ‘like martyrs being burnt alive while still giving songs of life from their stakes’.(Artaud)”. Owczarek is interested in shamanism, Gnosticism, alchemy.
His art has also been influenced by the content of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, as well as his studies in cultural anthropology.

More of Marcin’s work can be seen at Marcin Owczarek Photography.

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ABORTIST: Greg Houston (Baltimore, MD) ISSUE 16 Preview

October 1st, 2011 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

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WHO: Greg Houston

WHAT: Illustrator

WHERE: Baltimore, MD

WHEN: No shows currently scheduled.

WHY: I’m a graduate of Pratt Institute (1988) and I’ve wanted to be an illustrator since I was a little kid. I love the problem solving and story telling aspects of the profession. Even when I create pieces for myself, I consider them to be illustrations. It’s just in my DNA.

My work can be seen at http://greghoustonillustration.com/. I can be contacted through the site for assignments, commissions or purchases of existing work. I also have two books for sale through Lulu.com (“Monkey Genius and His Bikini Assassin Squad” and “Crawl”) in case anybody needs an extra book lying around.

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ABORTIST: Rank + File – JEFF JORDAN (Eureka, California, USA)

July 8th, 2011 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

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WHO?: Jeff Jordan

WHAT?: American Surrealist Painter–according to Wikipedia

WHERE? Eureka, California

WHEN?: Represented by Hold Up Art, LA, Ca., and Sewell Gallery of Fine Art, Eureka, Ca.

WHY?: It’s all I ever really wanted to do. Thanks to the Mars Volta, for whom I’ve done 3 album covers, a stage backdrop, and some other stuff, I’ve gained some visibility in the World. THANKS Omar and Cedric!j

PURCHASE/COMMISSION: jeff@jeffjordanart.com

jeffjordanart.com

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ABORTIST: Piercarlo Carella (Italy)

April 4th, 2011 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

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WHO: Piercarlo Carella

WHAT: Social reporter

WHERE: Settimo S. pietro (CA) Italy

WHEN: next showing /gallery etc…

WHY: Born in 1971, Pier studied arts at the high school and Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. His work has been shown in Italy and worked for the Stanford Univer. press. He has been published in many international art magazines.

“I believe in a kind of art which aims, day by day, to undertake a revolutionary perspective towards the established order and the authoritarism of the artistic market. It is a kind of art with a human and a social content, and which is able to reveal all sort of contradictions present in daily life. This class of art is deprived of every romantic connotations – according to a fundamental commitment in the field of expressive reality and expressive sincerity”.

I believe in the artist’s evolution from a V.I.P., as he is in truth today, into a cynic narrator of what he is forced to see and observe.

PURCHASE/COMMISSION: piercarlocarella@hotmail.com

http://pierk.deviantart.com

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ABORTIST: Jeremy Russell (Norton, NB, Canada)

January 13th, 2011 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

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WHO: Jeremy Russell

WHAT: Photoshop/pencil artist

WHERE: Norton, New Brunswick, Canada

WHEN: On the Google machine at rusthate.com all of the time

WHY: As a kid, I always was involved with creating something, be it simple art projects in school, or painting my skateboards. As I grew and became older and more aware of the various mediums available to me, my horizons vastly opened up to me. Being that I gave myself such a foundation in the basics of art, the rest came naturally to me.

Having never attended art school other then what was offered in public schools, I was always watching and listening to artists, reading what they had to say about their techniques. Bob Ross in the Joy of painting, or the massive books put out by Robert Bateman, I absorbed as much as I could.

It wasn’t until I met friends in the Photoshop world that my work really became…my own. It allowed me the tools to convey my ideas on a larger scale with more gory detail. I feel it still hinges on the fringe of what my work will become, BUT it’s a great beginning for me.

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etsy.com/shop/Rusthate

Jeremy.Russell@t4g.com

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ABORTIST: Eran Cantrell (Calgary, AB)

December 21st, 2010 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

WHO: Eran Cantrell

WHAT: Illustrator

WHERE: Calgary, Alberta Canada

WHEN: N/A

WHY: For me, art was always a way to make a connection between ideas and reality, to bridge the gap between one mind and another. When I was very young, I began drawing to bring my ideas into the real world; I continued when I realized that I could do much more than that. I could reach people.

LINKS: eranfolio.com

pyxelated.deviantart.com/store

For commissions, contact via eran.cantrell@gmail.com

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ABORTIST: Paige Reynolds (Toronto, ON)

August 5th, 2010 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

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WHO: Paige Reynolds

WHAT: Surreal dark art

WHERE: Toronto, Ontario (Canada)

WHEN: Festival of Fear, (Aug 2010 Toronto), group show (Spring 2011 Toronto).

WHY: Paige Reynolds is a Canadian visual artist based out of Toronto, Ontario. Her artistic talents were recognized early on and she won several art and creativity awards. Paige studied academics in University earning a Bachelor of Arts but never gave up her visual artwork. In her spare time you couldn’t pry the paintbrush out of her hand and she realized her true passion in creative arts. She then decided to further her art studies completing a Fine Arts program at Sheridan College. Soon after, she studied 3D Modeling and Visual Effects production at Humber College.

She began working mostly with pencils, inks and grayscale acrylics however she has now progressed to full colour imaginative works, mixed media, photography, digital art and 3D visual effects. Paige’s artwork is surreal, dark, figurative, metaphorical and emotional. Her main influences include horror, fear, the human condition, anatomy and the macabre as well as many other visual artists, musicians and filmmakers.

Paige has had some of her art on display and has sold artwork to private clients. She will be exhibiting her artwork in the near future and has begun to use her artistic and creative skills in the entertainment industry. Paige is now working on the nightmarish visuals (photo-realistic digital matte paintings) for the short film “Roachfar” with Enity Films.

PURCHASE/COMMISSION:

paigereynoldsart.com
theartist@paigereynoldsart.com
etsy.com/shop/PaigeReynoldsArt

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ABORTIST: JERM IX (Vancouver, BC)

March 21st, 2010 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File, Made In Canada by Editor in Chief

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WHO: jerm IX

WHAT: Text-based street artist

WHERE: Vancouver, Canada

WHEN: All over the city, all the time.

WHY: jerm IX is a street artist, poet, emcee, and activist. he is also the CEO of Jerm Inc., a fake, non-existent company that specializes in urban thought provocation and public space reclamation. “jerm is micromanaging disturbing hyped up fantasies, he’s a man of kin, a mannequin, he’s manic and he’s panicking…” he whispered over my shoulder as I sat down to write this bio. in the last 4 years, along with his wife ninja IX, he has pasted thousands of his annotated ‘jermalism’ messages, direct quotes, and scrolls around the city of Vancouver, Canada. inspired by unknown forces, jerm IX spits raps and decorates the city with the same sense of urgency and manic-depression that plague his everyday life, with recurring themes of suicidal thoughts, mental-health, and addiction issues strewn about amongst a plethora of other topics. His work ranges from acutely personal to critiquing larger social structures and processes, often in site-specific locations. Armed with only paper, stencil letters and permanent markers, jerm leaves no stone unturned, commenting on the here and the now. That’s all you need to know, everything else is in the songs and on the street

flickr.com/photos/jerm9ine

jermalism.blogspot.com

twitter.com/jerm_IX

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ABORTIST: drfranken (Madrid, Spain)

January 29th, 2010 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

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WHO: drfranken

WHAT: Illustration, Digital Art,

WHERE:Madrid, Spain

WHEN: Macworld 2010, Moca Museum, NY

WHY: drfranken is Fran Rodriguez Learte, a digital artist, born in La Coruña and works in Madrid. My artistic side started since childhood especially by my father. My father was a great artist. He painted using all sorts of techniques such as oil, charcoal, pencil, watercolor. My mother also paints very well and loves the arts. But my interest in digital art arose when I started my studies as a computer programmer and I began to discover a world of new possibilities and tools to express my art.

Official web: nastplas.com

drfranken.deviantart.com

behance.net/drfranken

paintermagazine.co.uk/show_profile.php?username=drfranken

conceptart.org/index.php?artist=drfranken&cat=updated

community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/nastplass_portfolio/default.aspx

moca.virtual.museum/autogallery/autogallery_franken/

drfranken.cghub.com/images/

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ABORTIST: Patrick “Star27” Deignan (St. Petersburg, FL)

January 15th, 2010 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File, Visuals - Art/Tattoos/Reader Submissons by Editor in Chief

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WHO: Patrick “Star27” Deignan

WHAT: Pop-Surrealist painter

WHERE: St. Petersburg, FL. USA

WHEN: Next (booked) show: The Alternative Café, Sept. 10, 2010, Seaside, CA. : Lowbrow Tarot Project, Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA. 10/09/10

WHY: Patrick Deignan “Star27” was born February 17, 1980. At a very young age he felt different, separate from others and quickly found solace in drawing, painting, and music making. In 1998 he left Connecticut to follow his dream on a scholarship to Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts.

By the end of that year his inner demons had caught up with him, and addiction became his life. There were attempts to return to school, with a short stay at San Francisco Art Institute, and an even shorter stay at Ringling School of Art and Design. Addiction demanded all of him and left no time for the process of creation. There was no need to, no drive to and no love of the process anymore. Having little to show for what would be a nine year period; he had put away the brush and thought he would never paint again.

After a near fatal night in 2007 he would soon adopt his moniker, Star27, a tongue-in-cheek nod at his past. After much encouragement he rekindled his dream, with a love and drive like never before.

Patrick “Star27” Deignan’s work focuses on the vices, weaknesses, and shortcomings of the human race. Every piece becomes deeply personal, something he has seen, felt, or experienced.

He sees not only his paintings, but Patrick himself as a work in progress. With each piece, something new is learned, something is discarded, and better, clearer ideas of where he is going and where he has been become apparent.

PURCHASE/COMMISSION: star27@artstar27.com

artstar27.com

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ABORTIST: King Fanta – First New Flix of 2010!

January 1st, 2010 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File, Visuals - Art/Tattoos/Reader Submissons by Editor in Chief

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ABORTIST: Patrick J. Byers (Edmonton, AB)

November 29th, 2009 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File, Visuals - Art/Tattoos/Reader Submissons by Editor in Chief

Title: Rise of N5N1
Year: 2009
Medium: Extreme Digital Photomanipulation
Size: 20×30 Limited edition of 20

Title: Malleus Maleficarum
Year: 2009
Medium: Extreme Digitial Photomanipulation
Size: 8×10 Limited edition of 25
16×20 Limited edition of 25

Title: Arrival of 1095
Year: 2008
Medium: Extreme Digitial Photomanipulation
Size: 20×32 One

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WHO: Patrick J. Byers

WHAT: Digital Manipulation

WHERE: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

WHEN: Dirty Show group exhibition, Detroit 2010

WHY: I’ve always been compelled to express myself in any medium I could get my hands on. Carving, painting, photography, sculpting… but finally settled on a combination of them. For example: I will create and paint a mask, develop a costume, do a photo shoot and then take other stock pictures I’ve shot, as well as specifically directed poses, and combine them all digitally. The process can take weeks. Each piece is a compilation of literally thousands of digitally combined images. I draw my artistic inspiration from my own personal nightmares and the documented horrors committed in the name of politics and religion.

PURCHASE /COMMISSION/INFO:

contact@101industries.ca

101industries.ca

202industries.com

myspace.com/101industries

Portfolio

101industries.ca/portfolio/Patrick_Byers_Portfolio2.pdf

Agent: Les Barany: baranyartists.com

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ABORTIST: SHIZ (London, UK)

November 16th, 2009 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

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WHO: Shiz

WHAT: Airbrush/Graffiti artist

WHERE: London, England

WHEN: London T.V. Talk back

WHY: Shiz has been an artist since he was a kid. He graduated from an art college in France (George Sand), then moved to London in 1998.

In 2006 he started working as a freelance artist under the alias “Shiz” and designed some T-shirts and sold them in Portobello market, London. He soon realised that customers were more interested in custom painting than just clothes. So he learned how to do airbrushing, graffiti art and body painting.

Since Portobello he has worked with other famous Airbrush artists and graffiti artists in the U.K. and met some of the best in the airbrushing world, who inspired him to always progress and be a better artist.

Shiz works mainly by himself, but also with other artists depending on the commission.

Shiz is always looking for new ways to paint and to evolve.

shizartist.com

shizartist.com/artforsale.html

shizartist.com/contact.html

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ABORTIST: John U. Abrahamson (Los Angeles, CA)

November 7th, 2009 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File, Visuals - Art/Tattoos/Reader Submissons by Editor in Chief

“Cigarette Burns” – oils on gessoed print paper – ”15.5X22″ 2009

“Scar Tissue” – oils on gesso coated print paper – “15.5X22″ 2009

“Mother Issues” – oils on wood panel”14X18″ – 2009

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WHO: John U. Abrahamson

WHAT: Painter

WHERE: Los Angeles, California

WHEN: “Flesh and Blood” solo exhibition at Bert Green Fine Art, March 10th through April 24th, 2010

WHY: Painting for me is exorcism. All the horror and pain, the stuff that tears you apart or inevitably kills you I give birth to on paper, wood and canvas. Since this will be a washing away of the last ten years with my next solo show, “Flesh and Blood” along with the artwork, I chose to destroy all my personal journals that documented the pain I portrayed. The center piece to the show of the same title “Flesh and Blood” will be an installation of 300 vials of my flesh and blood suspended over the journals on a metal frame that form the shape of a prone human. The 30 journals, 220 pgs each, are open for the viewers to destroy. The installation/performance piece will be accompanied by 30 paintings of oils on wood and paper.

PURCHASE /COMMISSION/INFO:

JohnUA.com

For sales or more information contact Bert Green Fine Art: bgfa.us

The “Flesh and Blood” Blog: fleshendblood.blogspot.com

Agent: Les Barany: baranyartists.com

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ABORTIST: Natalia Prada (Bogota, Columbia)

October 29th, 2009 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

WHO: Natalia Prada

WHAT: Film Director, Photographer, Graphic Designer

WHERE: Bogota, Colombia

WHY: I have a very strong interest in topics such as pain, anxiety and other human feelings assumed by society as “negative”. These pictures were made as a pre-work of a big project that was called “ Imago”. This project was my graduation project in Visual Arts, and it consists of 5 images. One of these is the one called “The Ostrich”, were I characterized myself, representing some of the characters that were recurrent in my dreams when I had a very advanced Anxiety disorder.

The image of “Bathory” was part of my interest in famous women with dark characteristics, it is also a self portrait were I represent the bloody countess known also as Elizabeth Bathory, a woman who believed that bathing with young women’s blood will keep her young and beautiful.

This line of work reiterates my interest in the area of artistic experimentation in different media such as photography, film and graphic design.

PURCHASE/COMMISSION:

jndupla@gmail.com

myspace.com/jnvideo

flickr.com/jmnvideographic

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ABORTIST: Vincent Castiglia (New York, NY)

October 25th, 2009 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File by Editor in Chief

“The Sleep”, 2006, 55″ x 82″, blood on paper
Collection: Martin Eric Ain, Zurich

“Gravity”, 24″ x 48″, 2006, blood on paper
Collection: Gregg Allman

WHO: Vincent Castiglia

WHAT: Surrealist | Note:The entire collection of paintings by Vincent Castiglia is created exclusively in his own blood (which anhydrates as iron oxide).

WHERE: New York, New York

WHEN: Last Rites Gallery – 2nd Annual ì13th Hour exhibition, featuring Paul Booth, David Stoupakis, Vincent Castiglia, Chet Zar, Genevive Zacconi, Fred Harper, and many more. October 24th- November 23rd. New York, New York and at The Stephan Stucki Gallery, January, 2010, Zurich Switzerland – Solo exhibition | ArtCommunications.ch

WHY: Making art was unavoidable. Its been my salvation. What I’d felt inside my whole life, the intensity with which I work and experience the world needed a suitable channel, and the creative process was just this. There came a point when my subject matter dictated to me the requirement for my current medium. As I felt it, the circle was not yet complete. I was on the verge of making images that nearly touched what I felt inside, but using the impersonal instruments of pen, acrylics or oils just felt wrong, as if I were lying or something. It felt like cutting up a newspaper and pasting together other people’s words to communicate my own thoughts and feelings.

I needed a more direct connection with my work, one that could not lie or be reproduced. In this way, my connection to my medium was inevitability, similar to a hemorrhage. The pressure keeps building, and sooner or later it finds its own way of release. In a sense, they’re not paintings, they are hemorrhages. It’s an almost startling realization, even for me to this day, to step back among the body of work I’ve produced while in view, and to comprehend that all of it, every inch of that material, including the seven foot tall paintings I’ve done, previously pumped through my heart, my veins, and delivered life to my flesh.

Check back in Issue 14 of ABORT Magazine for a more in-depth view into the mind of this extraordinary artist

PURCHASE/COMMISSION/INFO:

VincentCastiglia.com
HRGigerMuseum.com
LastRitesGallery.com

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ABORTIST: Visco (Vancouver, BC)

September 8th, 2009 Filed under: ABORTIST: Rank & File, Made In Canada, Visuals - Art/Tattoos/Reader Submissons by Editor in Chief

WHO: Visco

WHAT: Photo Manipulation/Dazed and often Confused

WHERE: Vancouver, BC

WHEN: All the time

WHY: Because I just wouldn’t be the same without it

Featuring the photography of:
Sarah Hamilton – Le Beast Photography: lebeastsphotos.carbonmade.com
Dan Chan – danchan.ca
Chris Wilson – StillThinking: stillswilson@hotmail.com

Email: Visco78@gmail.com if you like what you see
Website: should look pretty good whenever I get around to making one..

visco78.carbonmade.com

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