Amy Smith

The Future is Now - Contemporary Female Pop Portrait (Blue + Pink + Black)

2021

"Free and Clear" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see h...

"Myth of Sisyphus II (Abstract thought returns to prop of flesh)" is an original contemporary painting by Georgia-based artist Vivian Liddell. This work is part of her new 2022 series titled "Myth of Sisyphus." As a multidisciplinary artist, Liddell brings a dynamic approach to her vivid, colorful two-dimensional pieces. This particular piece has a bold contrast between black chains and a pastel background. From the artist: "Gender and power are core concepts in my work. I’ve spent two decades in “The Classic City” (Athens, Georgia), surrounded by a dual Greek culture. Fraternities and sororities separate students by gender and play a part in cementing gender roles and power structures for the next generation; ubiquitous Classical architecture (often accompanied by manicured landscape) is a constant reminder of Western ideals. After a career of painting the female figure and exploring themes related to the male gaze and the lingering inequalities that women face, I’ve focused the past five years on the male figure and his domain. My education was dominated by Western art history, where women were seen as muses; I’m reversing this traditional dynamic between the male artist/intellectual and his female subject. I create tiny “plays” with handmade props and puppet plasticine figures to reenact imagined dramas that might happen on any given home game day...

Amy Smith is a self-educated contemporary artist. Born in New Jersey, she moved to Los Angeles where she found inspiration, mentors, and support in the Street Art community. In her Collage Portrait Series, Amy Smith uses photography, and layers of hand cut stencils, and torn recycled fashion magazine pieces to simultaneously represent her love of fashion and her contempt for excessive consumerism. In addition, she showcases female portraits to empower and unify, creating a space to feel connected to oneself and to each other. Smith’s mixed media collages have been shown at Wallspace, Saatchi’s The Other Art Fair, La Art Fair to name a few and been part of auctions such as revered Julien’s Auctions...

"Millennium Pink" is a painting by Maestro Stanislav Belovski. About the painting: Style and Technic: POP ART, Contemporary, Acrylic on canvas The painting is unframed. “The impressions of artist's paintings on the viewer is so mighty, mesmerizing, grand, that it paralyzes the imagination and leaves no option. His paintings bring emotion of happiness, love, energy and beauty represented by the vast creative power of his talent.” Maestro Belovski has track records of multiples exhibitions. His works are owned in privet collections around the word. The Stanislav Belovski's paintings are a great example that the vintage style prevails lately and is also present in the world of contemporary art. His works should be read as an expression of nostalgia and fascination with the past - fashion, design and pop culture of the 60s. A characteristic feature of these images is a clearly visible texture of the canvas, which remind us pages that someone snatched from a fashion magazine found in the attic. It's similar to the effect used by Quentin Tarantino in his recent productions, where full of dirt and defects film reels pulls the audience in a unique atmosphere of a Drive-in theater. His favorite field of work is the visual arts. In his work he uses and is inspired by iconic images from the recent past - musicians, political figures and artists. Stanislav Belovski was born in 1976, Bulgaria Exhibitions: SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2016 – Alianz Bulgaria, National Fine Arts, Sculpture and Graphics Contest 2015 – Correction of Socialism 2, Studio24, solo exhibition, Plovdiv 2015 2015 – Image and Likeness: 77 self-portraits of contemporary Bulgarian artists...