ARTLIFE Gallery has exhibited at Zona Maco Foto, curated museum exhibitions at
MOCA Bangkok and hosted large scale pop up exhibits in Los Angeles, Miami and New York.
HELMUT NEWTON Helmut Newton remains one of the greatest revolutionaries in the fashion and art world. The German photographer utilized his legendary style of capturing elements of danger and sex in order to capture a story in his photographs. His work at times was flared by violence, at other times his intention was ambiguous, but the constant of sex remained. His models notoriously imposed the word super before them with their Amazonian height and unmistakable blonde hair, accompanied by sky-high stilettos and little else. Helmut Newton’s legacy lives on through his larger-than-life photographs.
NAKED TOPHAT$ – ALEC MONOPOLY X HELMUT NEWTON
Title: Naked Tophat$ Year: 2017 Medium: Silver Gelatin Print with Aerosol and Acrylic Paint Size: 36 × 24 in (91.4 × 61 cm)
ART LIFE
Michael Vasquez is a Florida native born in 1983 in the town of St. Petersburg. He has gained notoriety for his paintings depicting neighborhood street gang culture.His paintings pay homage to the histories and social codes of street gangs.
As a child raised by a single mother, Vasquez explored the street gang culture as a means of extended family. Vasquez intertwines an outside set of values unique to gang culture throughout his work, as well as elements of family and loyalty. His art also expresses dualistic feelings of shame and pride, respect and disrespect, and affiliation and separation.
AVAILABLE ART BY DAVID YARROW ABOUT DAVID YARROW David Yarrow was born in 1966 in Glasgow, Scotland. His surreal ability to capture astounding moments of wildlife started when he took up photography at a young age, soon working for The London Times at the age of 20. It was during this time that Yarrow captured the photo of Diego Maradona holding the World Cup in MexicoCity, a shot that travelled worldwide. From there, he was asked to cover theOlympics but today is inspired to photograph his own interests and expanding his artistic portfolio.
ABOUT ESTEVAN ORIOL Estevan Oriol’s style of amalgamating glamorous and gritty aesthetics continues 20years down the road of his career. The Mexican-American Los Angeles based photographer has worked with the likes of Ellen von Unwerth Luca Babini for GQItaly. He counts Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Floyd Mayweather, Robert Dinero andAl Pacino as subjects of his.
AVAILABLE ART BY HARIF GUZMAN Harif Guzman, born March 23, 1975, in Venezuela, spent much of his childhood surrounded by his mother and sisters and was influenced strongly by his father (a printer and typesetter). As a little boy in 1980, Guzman came to New York City. Guzman calls New York not only home but his canvas and inspiration. The inspiration of his work derives from mechanical reproduction and a unique technique that refuses the deadening effects of iconographical conformity. Further inspiration is the result of Guzman’s earliest experiences of image making and the honest craft that he encountered working in his father’s print shop as a boy. The subsequent trajectory of his path from shop worker turned street-smart skate punk, to a worldwide, well respected contemporary artist, involves an alchemical shift as humble cast-offs evolve into fine art in his studio.
ABOUT HELMUT NEWTON Helmut Newton remains one of the greatest revolutionaries in the fashion and art world. The German photographer utilized his legendary style of capturing elements of danger and sex in order to capture a story in his photographs. His work at times was flared by violence, at other times his intention was ambiguous, but the constant of sex remained. His models notoriously imposed the word super before them with their Amazonian height and unmistakable blonde hair, accompanied by sky-high stilettos and little else. Helmut Newton’s legacy lives on through his larger-than-life photographs.
Jean-Michael Basquiat was born December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. He was celebrated artist, musician and poet. In the late seventies of New York graffiti art culture, Basquait was hailed as a prodigy and his art is widely recognized to this day.By the young age of 20, he developed his signature mask and skull imagery and began incorporating obsessive enigmatic symbols with his scribbling painting style of art.