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Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Painter / American Treasure

Said her paintings weren't vaginal

Married to the influential photographer and gallery owner, Alfred Stieglitz

Has her own dinosaur, Effigia okeeffeae

Georgia O'Keffe Wikipedia Bio

Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Illustrator / Author / Foppish Pervert

Buddies with Wilde and Whistler

Lecherous pen-and-ink drawings inspired by Japanese shunga 

Died of tuberculosis at age 25

Aubrey Beardsley Wikipedia Bio

Look out! Here's a piece I did recently for the January issue of Virginia Living. It's about an awkward skier trying to woo his little lady friend. Obviously she was having none of it.

Thanks for making it happen, Sonda! You and the team did a bang-up job on the layout.

Ivan Puig, Hasta las narices 2004

Ivan Puig presents viewers with visual metaphors that combine poetic frailty with conceptual rigor. Through installation, intervention and other media, Puig creates situations that challenge our notions of reality. In Hasta las narices, a seemingly sinking car is echoed in a smaller sacle installation in a glass of milk, where relativity and the viewer's perception is placed into question.[...]

Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Illustrator / Czar of Slavic Fairy Tales

Born in a suburb of St. Petersburg

Influenced by traditional Japanese prints

Died in the Siege of Leningrad

Ivan Bilibin Wikipedia Bio

All the pond swimming is getting to my brain.
Pen and wash 13cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

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So, here's a fun series I did for the fine people at the Houston Press. It's about their staff picks for the rootin'est, tootin'est food and entertainment in all of—you guess it!—Houston.

Yee-haw! (Thanks for making it happen, Monica.)

Seen top to bottom: Bimbo's Beer and Bar-B-Q, Mezzanine Lounge, Alice's Tall Texan, and the Phantom of the Opera touring company.

Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Painter / The Son of Man 

Mother committed suicide when he was thirteen

Friends with writer, André Breton 

Graphic style influenced Warhol and Pop art

Forged Picassos during lean post-WWII period 

René Magritte Wikipedia Bio

Card No.10 in the current series, hot off the press. The Hidden Mountain could be beneath your feet right now.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.

Iván Navarro, Blue Electric Chair, 2004. Fluorescent light, color sleeves, metal fixtures and electric energy

Iván Navarro uses fluorescent tubes and electrical materials to create sculptural works that offer social and political commentary within an art historical context. In his works, Navarro appropriates the formal qualities of Minimalism and other avant-garde movements, such as geometric abstraction and constructivism, to speak about violence, energy and the media.[...]

Marcelo Cidade, Sad Tropicalia, 2010

Marcelo Cidade's second show at Galeria Vermelho continues his exploration of the city and its post-modern condition through sculptures and installations. The exhibition is titled Avant-Garde is not Dead, a witty assemblage of two word phrases, the French definition of 'avant-garde', which refers to the first line of troops before going to war, and 'is not dead', referring directly to the commonly used phrase in the punk movement 'punk is not dead'.[...]

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Petrified Petrol Pump, 2010. Fossil-filled limestone. Photo credit: Florian Kleinefenn

The recent announcement of the selection of the American-Cuban duo Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla to represent the United States at the 2011 Venice Biennal has generated quite an international buzz. They are young and relatively unknown with very conceptual and at times controversial proposals that bring attention to political and social unrest. Art with a conscious, so to speak.[...]

Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Painter / Printmaker / Spirit of Weimar 

Served in the German Army during WWI

Deemed a degenerate artist by the Nazis

Painted Lady Gaga's great grandmother?! 

Wikipedia Bio

In England the vowels will always give one away.
Ink in various dilutions. 21cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

A female clownfly (actually a wasp of the family iocusplasmatorae) inserts her ovipositor to lay up to 100,000 jokes in the brain of Bertrand Russell.
Pen and ink with gouache. 21cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

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Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.

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It features a massive Red Dragon... you know what to do!