Not Your Grandma's Art

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Bambashkart is an anonymous print dealer featured on instagram, Etsy, and other social medias/online shops. The artwork features collages including marijuana and other paraphernalia romanticizing drugs, money, lust, and more. A lot of the work could be seen as sarcastic and satirical and almost makes a joke of the drug obsessed/love obsessed world we live in today. The artist does this by over romanticizing these things or making sarcastic blurbs or thought bubbles of the individuals portrayed in the works. I couldn’t find the artist’s face or identity from my research but their instagram is @bambashkart and it’s the same on Etsy if you’re invested in purchasing their prints. 

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Jonathan Adler is an interior designer and artist born in New Jersey who has gained some major attention in the past decade. Adler launched his first ceramic collection in Barneys in 1993. By the 2000s, Adler launched his first boutique in Soho, NY and now has 17 stores and runs an entire interior design business. Adler is also an author, but specializes in his pop art, and controversial pieces. Using bright colors and mixing prints and tones, he creates a messy, yet beautiful design in his home furnishings and design, and has gained a lot of popularity in NY and LA home designs. Adler has been creating and designing art since a very early age. Him and his parter now live in Greenwich Village with a home in Shelter Island as well, and have publicly expressed their support for the LGBTQ community, which he often incorporates into his works. His art has also “reflected his interests in pop culture, early hip hop culture, contemporary art, and fashion”. 

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Kristin Simmons is a modern artist that highlights the dark side of our society today. She uses her vulgar and grotesque pieces incorporating mixed medias such as painting, printmaking, and others to shed light on issues such as the drinking age, addiction, the second amendment, the justice system flaws, and so many more. On Simmons’ website, it’s noted that she is the recipient of many awards “including the Orra White Hitchcock award, and the National Endowment of the Arts Award.” Simmons received a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Visual Arts from Columbia University. Additionally, the website mentioned that “She’s had two solo shows to-date and has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including at the 2016 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum in New York.” Simmons’ art is on the rise and she’s gaining attention for her beautiful and magnificent pieces, while also making a difference and changing people’s perspective on stigmatized ideals. 

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Javier Martin, an artist raised in Spain, has taken the world by storm by incorporating neon light effects to his black and white, stoic photographs. His most famous collection called, Blindness, is featured in the above photos. Martin incorporates a neon light or brush stroke over beautiful models eyes to represent hiding the human emotion, and shedding light on a beauty-driven culture that we exist in right now in our society. Martin’s exhibitions are all over the world, including Seoul, Japan, New York, Denver, Italy, Spain, Miami, and more. We’re excited to see more of Martin’s work and what he does next, wether it be in his Blindness collection, or other collections to come.

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Known as ‘The female Andy Warhol,’ Ashley Longshore has taken the art world by storm in the past couple of years. Her political, beautiful, all-encompassing pieces have shed light on more than just her bright colors and sparkly art effects, but also touched on current political narratives and finding the humor in everything. Longshore’s art career has been booming the past couple of years, including when she made over 1 million dollars off her art in a 2 hour span. Her art is blunt and vulgar, but with an ironic and dynamic spin by actually painting her works in a colorful, bright tone.