Ruby Chen

These are various works done for independent personal project, mobile and educational studios.

Ruby Chen is an Illustrator/Concept Artist from Los Angeles. She has been designing backgrounds, characters, and props in the gaming and consumer products industry for the last 5 years. Ruby majored in entertainment design at the Art Center College of Design, and pride herself on consistently producing simple and intuitive product experiences through carefully designed products.

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Leo Monahan

About the Work:

Inspired by Bauhaus design and color principles, as well as Japanese and Chinese paper arts, Leo Monahan creates modern masterworks of cut and folded paper.

Leo Monahan photograph

By cutting, folding, and texturizing paper of various weights, and by superimposing the pieces in dimensional collage, Leo gives the objects in his works a palpability they would not possess depicted on a flat canvas. In an old country kitchen, large spoons lean out from their utensil holder, as if hankering for a cook’s hand. A decaying rowboat poses in fugitive relief against the water that threatens to engulf it. Leo’s use of relief is such that some of his most arresting art is white on white.

Most of Monahan’s works, including the kitchens, are prodigies of color. An object’s relief is often heightened by intense tone. Using hot colors liberally in harmony with a few cooler ones, Leo often achieves some of the effects of an abstract. For example, his bigger- and more-colorful-than-life fishing flies seem intended to lure your inner eye.

In recent years, Leo has also enjoyed exploring the sensuous and emotional power of rusts and earth tones, often in images from his boyhood in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Leo’s work has appeared in galleries in California and across the Southwest. His work is now in the Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, NC. His pieces are in numerous private collections and the Smithsonian Institution. The Art Academy of Los Angeles held a 40-year retrospective of his compositions. Leo holds a Life Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators.

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Giovannina Colalillo

Giovannina’s award winning illustrations and artwork have ventured world wide appearing in various magazines, publications, books, corporate promotions, exhibits and private collections. See more at http://www.giovannina.com

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Matthew Trickel

Whether it is through research, hiking, reading, observation, crafting, or casual conversation, exploration is the keystone that drives Matthew’s work. Matthew Trickel is a Los Angeles based digital artist specializing in illustration and visual development. Hailing from Iowa, Matthew started his creative journey in a wide variety of traditional media and later became self-taught in the digital world. To Matthew, art is where technology and philosophy meet and he is continually seeking out small but significant insights to our world. Contemporary cinema and literature are primary inspirations for themes found in Matthew’s work. He finds historical romantic painters to be a defining influence on his visual style. Matthew enjoys utilizing a diverse set of digital tools and techniques when tackling visual and functional problem solving. This includes, but is not limited to, Photoshop for digital painting, drawing and photo integration, as well as incorporating a 3D pipeline for pre visualization and paint overs using Maya.

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Ruby Chen

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