Lowbrow / Pop Surrealism Art
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Artists
Amy Sol
Delicate, whimsical images influenced by vintage illustration, folk art, and manga.
Tara McPherson
Innocent yet seductive fine art and illustration images with a comic book influence.
Julie West
Colorful girly girl illustrations and toys.
Sylvia Ji
Urban underground paintings and illustrations.
Audrey Kawasaki
Innocent, yet disturbing paintings inspired by manga and Art Nouveau.
Jeff Soto
Includes lowbrow and graffiti style artwork, cactus photos, contact info, news, and links.
SillyPinkBunnies.com
The artwork of Jeremy Fish.
Dalek
Includes paintings, street art, animations, and graffiti.
Macula Art
Illustrations with a combination of whimsical, cute, and a bit of creepy. Artist has an interest in the macabre and the seedy underbelly of society.
Elizabeth McGrath
Paintings, dolls, creatures, and mixed media dioramas.
McCarty PhotoWorks
Los Angeles based toy photographer, Brian McCarty.
Lorie Earley
Oil paintings with a unique combination of classical realistic rendering and a personal element of distortion.
Glenn Barr
Robots, creatures, and vixens.
Mike Giant
Fine art, graffiti, tattoos, photography.
Todd Schorr
Conjures a seemingly endless array of the most fantastic cartoon inspired imagery to ever parade across a canvas.
Flounderart
Pop surrealism art by Scott Scheidly.
Joe Sorren
Creates original paintings and bronze sculptures that blend a love for impressionism with modern pop surrealism.
Camille Rose Garcia
Paintings of creepy cartoon children living in wasteland fairy tales.
Isabel Samaras
Paintings and illustrations.
Marco Almera
Underground style originals, serigraphs, and posters.
Mark Ryden
Enchanted paintings with an eclectic fusion of bees, meat, tikis, religious emblems, alchemy symbols, old toys, and Abraham Lincoln.
John Currin
Article and image gallery at the BBC collective.
Gary Baseman
Pervasive artist, painter, tv and movie producer, toy designer, and humorist.
Ana Bagayan
Fine art and illustration.
Tim Biskup
Artwork inspired by mid-century modern design infused with a healthy dose of punk rock energy.
Daniel Peacock
Works painted on aged and yellowed book pages to appear like doodles from long ago.
Eric White
Beautiful, disturbing.
ImScared Dot Com
Sketches, illustrations, and graffiti by Greg "Craola" Simkins.
EyeSuck Ink
Art by Alex Pardee.
Joe Coleman
Apocalyptic visionary painter.
Frank Kozik
News and full-color, limited edition, silk screened concert posters.
Alex Gross
Beautiful and seductive oil paintings by Los Angeles artist.
Anthony Ausgang
Surreal cartoon-like paintings.
James Jean
Fine art illustrations, paintings, and cover art.
Voodoo Velvet
Original pop surreal velvet paintings and old style carnival game decor.
Galleries and Exhibits
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Exhibits works by celebrated and unknown artists influenced by pop imagery, comic books, graffiti, and illustration.
Shooting Gallery SF
An un-intimidating gallery that exhibits lowbrow, street, and outsider art. Also participates in Art fairs and deals in secondary market purchases.
Thinkspace
Exhibits new contemporary works from the streets and art schools around the world.
Corey Helford Gallery
Features a range of artists with several images from past shows available online.
La Luz de Jesus
Features post-pop, counter culture works by underground artists, mostly figurative, narrative paintings, and unusual sculpture.
Roq la Rue
Badass, pop surrealism art gallery in the heart of Seattle's Belltown.
Resources
Juxtapoz.com
An online magazine featuring leading artists and galleries as well as reader art, photos, interviews, and articles.
Wikipedia: Lowbrow Art
Includes an overview of the movement, a list of representative artists, and brief information about related books and magazines.
Designer Art Toys
KidRobot
Toys and action figures from Japan, Hong Kong and the USA including limited edition urban vinyl , plus remote control rc cars, gloomy bears and more.
FriendsWithYou
Designer plush toys and art installations.
StrangeCo
Promotes and produces designer art toys and urban vinyl from the US and abroad.
Toy2r
Miniature toys designed by cutting edge artists across Asia, America, and Europe.
Rotofugi
Designer vinyl toys, plush and more.
UglyDoll
Plush stuffed characters including keychains, little uglys, vinyls, skateboards and tee shirts.
Mad Cat Toys
Hard to find toys and gifts for kids and collectors.
MyPlasticHeart
Urban vinyl, designer toys and culture.
Vinyl Abuse
Online toy and art magazine out of the UK.
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