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

Chiho Aoshima (青島千穂) is a Japanese pop artist and member of Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Collective. Aoshima graduated from Department of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo. She had a residency at Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas in 2006. This young graphic artist began in Murakami's factory wi

Anime & manga, Cartoonish, Fantastic, Figurative, Graffitists and cartoonists, Hi-tech, Polychromatic, Superflat, Surreal

Perhaps the best way to introduce Murakami's work is through DOB, the character at the center of most everything the artist has done during his seven-year ascent to art stardom. The artist's little leitmotif, DOB is a Mickey Mouse-like, cartoonish and clueless creation whose name derives from the sla

Anime & manga, Cartoonish, Fantastic, Graffitists and cartoonists, In-your-face, Kinetic, Superflat

Dash Snow is best known for his sculptural installations, collages, and photographs. Snow has exhibited in galleries and museums such as The Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2006 Biennial "Day For Night", Deitch Projects, Saatchi Gallery and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery i

Absurd, Agitated, Angry, Body art, Cartoonish, Documentary photography, Figurative, Graffitists and cartoonists, Grand, Hallucinatory, In-your-face, Political, Social revolution, Trippy, Violent