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Stikki Peaches

Wild Heart & Rebel Souls Words by BILL BROWNSTEIN, MONTREAL GAZETTE Updated: June 26, 2017 Images by Stikki Peaches Few know what he looks like, and he wants to keep it that way. He is not like most other artists. Hell, he is not like most other people. He is a fast emerging Montreal artist, but he […]

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Hayley Arjona/Overripe

Exhilarating Psychedelic Satire! I’ve had the pleasure to post previous paintings by Aussie artist Hayley Arjona already and it is my great pleasure to do it again because her work is always refreshing, exhilarating, even musical! Bursting out with life and a very acute, disturbing sense of humor. I love it! Hayley Arjona delves into […]

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Weapons of Unique Creation

Bull Shotgun Paintings During his later years in Kansas, Burroughs developed a painting technique whereby he created abstract compositions by placing spray paint cans in front of, and some distance from, blank canvasses, and then shooting at the paint cans with a shotgun. These splattered canvasses were exposed in various Galleries during the early 1990s.  In an interview with […]

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Nicoletta Ceccoli

Beautiful Nightmares “One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.” ― Jean Cocteau  Nicoletta Ceccoli is a San Marinian Artist who is known for her richly detailed, dreamlike work. She […]

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Henriette Valium

ICTUS LUMEX IDATUS BORGIA Henriette Valium is a comic book artist and painter based in Montreal, Quebec. Born Patrick Henley, ever since his beginnings in the early 1980s, his provocative and hallucinogenic style has kept him well away from the mainstream comic book industry.  Valium is for sure one of the greatest cartoonist of all time. For the last three decades […]

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Sas Christian

An Emotional Response from/by ”If you have a creative impulse, whether it be art, music, writing, theater, cooking, whatever — express it. Don’t let you own hang-ups, caution, fear of failure or ridicule stop you…!” She worked in a department store, at a commercial art studio and a PIP printing (where she quit on her […]

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YOUNG CHUN

Fabricated Beauties “My art is a fabrication of reality – the way I see it in my mind. Music, culture, childhood memories, and the people in the environment that surrounds me influence it. When I pass by strangers or a situation taking place, my mind begins to create stories about them – imagining their lives, the […]

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Sexy Misfits from Hell

John John Jesse is an illustrative painter from New York City’s Lower East Side in the Juxtapoz gonzo-pop vein. He often shows with artists like Esao Andrews. A Punk rocker and former Catholic Schoolboy, John John’s work reflects the angst and trials of those two opposites. Self-taught as an artist, his visionary works of have the […]

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ZÏLON NOWAVE

Backstreet Cocteau Montreal Urban Style Dark alleys were the first to be marked with Zïlon’s poetic signature. Dubbed « The Backstreet Cocteau » (ref to French  poet, filmmaker, artist Jean Cocteau), he was one of Montreal’s key figures during the 80’s punk and underground movement.  I decided to display here only his work in Black and White… […]

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