Absurd, Angry, Baroque, Beautiful , Bright, Bubblicious, Cartoonish, Clean, Clever, Cool, Dark, Decorative, Dissonant, Distorted, Dramatic, Ecstatic, Excessive, Experimental, Fantastic, Figurative, Glamour, Grand, Improvised, Intense, Intimate, Masculine, Moody, Neurotic, Organic, Political, Pop, Primal, Psychedelic, Psychological, Rebel, Religious, Serene, Sophisticated, Spiritual, Surreal, Technology, Tranquil, Trippy, Violent, Whimsical, Wise assy, Witty

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2004-Present Full Time Faculty, Fine Art Department, Academy of Art University EDUCATION Spring 2000 BFA/Painting, Academy of Art University SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 “Recent Paintings”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007 “Album,” Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Fantastic, Representational

Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art. Iva Gueorguieva heeds Hugo's words, fashioning wall-sized paintings laden with thickly rendered, sickly hued detail. Gueorguieva's works embody the hybridized and occasionally terr

Architectural, Cartoonish, Ecstatic, Euphoric, Expansive, Fantastic, Kinetic, Layered, Monumental

Heavily influenced by the otaku culture of sexually explicit manga, Kunikata's work adopts the genres conventions to explore and communicate issues of abandonment, masochism, and depression. Often filling notebook after notebook with nightmarish depictions of cruelty, Kunikata's personal drive to pr

Anime & manga, Fantastic, Figurative, Graffitists and cartoonists, Hi-tech, Kinetic, Sexy, Superflat