TUGBA YÜKSEL / PORTFOLIO

born 1979 in istanbul. she finished marmara collage as a art teacher. During my childhood I used to embrace drawing picture of bus and people who looks round from the bus with a smile. Especially the bus driver was very important so he must have surely a cap and I should not have forgotten the steering wheel. In addition, headlights and the roads that we could see by the triangular spotlights…I bought a camera and began to spend hours in Eminönü and Kadıköy to taking photograph in my every spare day. Each time I was spending one or two hours between bus stops. Those places were like a forest, people looked like trees. They dropped their branches over bus stops and on the seats in their natural states… The single ones was colored green, the people in couples or groups were in blue. While recording their pictures my questions were on one hand somehow getting lesser on the other hand becoming more.

NICK ZUTRAU / PORTFOLIO

Nick studied Illustration at SVA in New York City, graduated in 2008, and now works as a freelance illustrator. His work, much like his ancestry, is a mixture of eastern and western influences. His images are characterized by confident line work, imaginative subject matter, and careful color selection, some of which draws on the art and culture he was exposed to by his Norwegian and Japanese background. Nick's visual messages and inspiration flow from a constant assimilation of aesthetic elements from internet image hubs such as tumblr and ffffound, making his visual interpretations a melding of personal and collective experiences.

BRETT AMORY / PORTFOLIO

Brett Amory was born in 1975 in Chesapeake, Virginia. He lived in San Francisco for 15 years before relocating to Oakland in 2009 where he is currently based. His work has been shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, New York, and San Jose and continues to receive acclaim. Amory began the Waiting series in 2001 with paintings based on photographs the artist has taken of ordinary city architecture and random people who he saw daily but never spoke to. He feels especially drawn to individuals who look lost, lonely or awkward—those who don’t appear to fit in socially.

JOSHUA PETKER / INTERVIEW

An active graffiti writer from an early age, Petker painted street art through college. While pursuing a degree in History, his interest in the arts and Art History expanded beyond graffiti. After studying abroad in Florence, Italy during college, he became engrossed in figurative and abstract painting and committed himself to making art his career. He has exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Paris, and the U.K. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

TIM DOYLE / PORTFOLIO

Tim Doyle is an illustrator and print-maker working out of Austin, Texas.  Growing up in the suburban sprawl of the Dallas area, he turned inward and sullen, only finding  joy in comic-books and television and video games. Moving to Austin, Texas in 1999 to fulfill a life-long dream of not living in Dallas, Doyle begun painting and showing in galleries in 2001.  He self-published a diary zine, ‘Amazing Adult Fantasy’ from 2001-2003.  Doyle has held many nerd-friendly jobs, including running a small chain of comic-book stores, as well as designing  t-shirts and art-directing the poster series for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.