Charlotte Mann is a British artist who is known for her intricate wall drawings. She was born in 1977 in London, where she eventually became a fashion designer and stylist. This is where her drawing installations began to take form, as she combined these elaborate drawings with her fashion shows.

Each drawing is completed exclusively in black marker. The images she creates begin to take form as the delicate pen begins to cover up the blank white wall. She is able to give the illusion of space with her pen work, even though there is really only a wall there. Her use of line weight makes each artwork have its own sense of space.

John Sargent was an exceptional portrait painter born in Florence, Italy. He became the center of controversy when he exhibited his piece Madame X in the Paris Salon. He painted Madame Pierre Gautreau in a very revealing dress (for the time). He did paint other scantily dressed women but Madame X gained the most attention. Because of such criticism, he failed to make an established living as a painter in France. He relocated to England to gain a new, unbiased audience. His work quickly became popular and he became the country’s leading portrait painter. He eventually sold Madame X to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his older years he experimented with different styles such as impressionism and landscapes (with no figures). Though he created a wide body of work he is still known as one of the worlds best portrait painters.

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/12127

http://www.johnsingersargent.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Madame_X

David Spriggs is an installation artist that uses layers and paint to create his immersive works of art. He is inspired by the notion that painting can bring out certain qualities that sculpture cannot and vice versa, to which Spriggs combined the two concentrations to be able to create what he envisioned. As Sprigg states “Almost all art throughout history has been an engagement with space. It is the same exploration of space that lead to my own process. Sculpture is inherently about space and form, while in painting there has been various developments regarding the representation and understanding of space; the invention of linear perspective being of major importance.” Using hundreds and hundreds of layers of acrylic paint on thin sheets of film, he manages to create large 3D painting of abstract forms that resemble storms and contained explosions. His works span into large scale wall sized installations. One of the most interesting things I find about Spriggs work is the illusion of a 3D scupture while actually being in a 2D form.

Source: http://www.visualnews.com/2013/09/25/immersive-3d-paintings-layers-transparent-film-interview-artist-david-spriggs/

Timothy H. Lee is a former neuroscientist and uses his education to fuel his art. His installations play with the notions of problems with personal identity, social stigmas, and disorder. In Lee’s work he explores his own problems with personal disorders that he deals with on a daily basis. Lee uses large sheets of paper with painted faces of distressed individuals using watercolor and gouache. After which he carves intricate patterns into the paper that appear to be similar to the shapes of cells. the watercolor allows him to be loose with his work while the intricate cuts give him control over his work. After the painting and carving is done, he then bends the paper into twisted abstract forms that resemble waves of shapes and tortured individuals.  It’s interesting how he manages to twist a 2D painting into a 3D sculpture without losing the rawness from the original form.

Sources: http://hifructose.com/2013/10/07/timothy-h-lee-examines-psychological-disorders-in-new-installation/
http://www.sabrinaamrani.com/the-gallery/artists/Timothy-Hyunsoo%20Lee/bio

Val Britton, Deluge, Site-specific installation of hand cut and laser cut paper, ink, and thread Dimensions variable Install views from the exhibition “Passage” at Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, 2014,  Photographs by Johnna Arnold Photography.

Val Britton was born in Livingston, New Jersey. She completed her undergraduate degree at Rhode Island School of Design in B.F.A and received her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts. She currently lives and works in San Francisco, California. Britton has received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and participated in residencies and fellowships. The artist also has solo and group exhibitions throughout the country. Her recent show is at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Foley Gallery (New York), and Gallery Wendi Norris (San Francisco)

Britton works with collage on paper to create her own abstraction of maps that related back to her own personal experience and relationship with her father. She uses abstraction in her works as a way to explore, what she called “psychological and emotional spaces.” She has brought the drawing from a two-dimensional into a three-dimensional space by using collage materials and cutting into the ground paper of work as a goal to create the movement through space and emotional impact. (Britton 2000-2016)

Here are some examples of her works

Val Britton, Lines Unbroken (for E.M.) Graphite, ink, watercolor, and collage on paper
54″ h x 72″ w., 2013

Val Britton, Tracks, Graphite, ink, tempera, and collage on paper
52” h x 52” w. 2013

Val Britton, Reverberation #24 (detail) Ink, collage, and cut paper
30” h x 30” w (paper size), 2014

http://valbritton.com

Photographs by Johnna Arnold Photography.

Britton, Val. “Biography.” Statement. Http://valbritton.com, n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2016

Janet Echelman, 1.26 AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, Sculpture Project at the Amsterdam Light Festival, December 7, 2012- January 20, 2013
Janet Echelman started her career as an artist after graduating from Harvard. She moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and completed a study in Chinese calligraphy and landscape painting then moved to Bali, Indonesia. Echelman had cooperated traditional textile methods with contemporary painting.  She’s spent several years working, living, and traveling in Asian countries. From there Echelman’s works were discovered and purchased by Robert Rauschenberg. She has created large scale sculptures as a living environment that we could be a part of. Artist uses unusual materials in the artworks to emphasize on environmental forces like wind, water, and sunlight. Echelman also created public art and collaborated with artisan such as fishermen in a series of netted sculpture. Her sculptures are a combination of cutting edge technology, public art, and urban transformation as a goal to create diversity in different cities and environment. There are some concerns about birds and wildlife regarding her large scale sculptures. However, she said that the team including herself have cautiously discussed the process and idea before asking for construction permission that her artworks will not harm the animals.

artwork examples

Janet Echelman, 1.8 LONDON, UK, Fiber, Buildings and Sky combined with Colored Lighting, Wifi, and Interactive Computer Programming. Fibers are braided with nylon and UHMWPE (Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene)Dimensions of net: 100 ft. length x 45 ft. width x 20 ft. depth
Installation Dimensions: 180 ft. length x 180 ft. width x ft. 70 height, 2016 

Janet Echelman, SKIES PAINTED WITH UNNUMBERED SPARKS, VANCOUVER, CANADA, Twisted nylon, braided polyester, Honeywell Spectra fiber, and interactive, colored lighting, Dimensions of Net: 300 ft. length x 110 ft. width x 40 ft. depth, Installation Dimensions: 745 ft. length x 475 ft. width x 175 ft. height,  2014

Echelman, Janet. “Biography.” http://www.echelman.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2016.

Marc Hagan-Guirey (also known as “Paper Dandy”) is a contemporary digital and paper-cut artist, most famously known for his skill in the craft kirigami. Kirigami is the process of cutting intricate shapes into a single sheet of paper that, when folded, create detailed, 3D dioramas and spaces. Guirey’s first exhibition Horrorgami, was a collection of these small paper cuts all revolving around popular horror iconography. His more recent (and well-known) exhibition Cut-Scene, Inspired by Star Wars, opened last spring on May 4, 2015, featuring intricate scenes replicating famous moments from the Star Wars film franchise.

While kirigami may not appear to have many similarities with traditional 2D drawing, the two are actually quite compatible in process and how kirigami relates to drawing into space. Guirey’s work has him “drawing” into the surface of paper with an Exacto-knife. The results, when lit properly, are dioramas that create a real and perceived space from the cut drawings. If possible, it would be interesting to see kirigami on a large scale in which the audience could observe or explore the finished work in and around the piece.

Here are some examples of Marc Hagan-Guirey’s work:

Hagan-Guirey, Soho Uncut, Paper, 2014.

Hagan-Guirey, A Kirigami Palace for Decorex International’s 2013 Campaign, Paper, 2013

Hagan-Guirey, Howler, Paper, 2015

Hagan-Guirey, from Cut-Scene exhibition, Paper, 2015.

Official website: http://paperdandy.co.uk/

Julian Beever is an English artist who is most famous for his chalk art on pavement. He worked many odd jobs such as tree-planting and carpet fitting and even a street performer but also as an Art and English teacher for a while before his art became well-known and popular. His earlier works were mostly celebrity portraits he would draw in the streets so that passer-by would recognize and take interest in him. Soon enough, his love of chalk drove him to create scenes in blank portions of pavement and to make them stand out. The drawings are two-dimensional but when viewed from a single particular angle appear to be just as fully formed as everything else around them. While Beever’s works is not suited for gallery or museum spaces, he is often called upon by different corporations and has worked in twenty-eight different countries. Beever does not consider his work a type of graffiti as it is done openly and in a non-permanent media though he has been escorted to police stations on a couple occasions. He does enjoy the impermanence of the chalk, though, the benefits of its speed and flexibility outweighing how easily it can be destroyed. He considers the photographs of the chalk drawings to be the piece itself because they will last much longer and allow it to be seen by millions more people.

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An astonnishing embroidery artist who got her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in fibers and material studies in 2013. Originally a hobby to pass her time while nannying, her form of relaxation turned into her work. She is very prolific and creates very illustrative fiber work. She currently works from her home in Menorca, Spain.

Evidently from her work, we can see that Sarah concentrates on depicting house plants. Each piece is inspired by her personal house plant collection. She is self taught in the art of embroidery and treats each piece as an illustration. Her site suggests “Her emphasis on drawing, composition, and color choice keeps her work fresh and vibrant.” As viewers we can see how her choice in medium gives her work a certain draw. the line quality can be not only observed but touched. The element of physical interaction sets her illustration apart from the mainstream.