The work of Adam Batchelor has recently been added to my list of favorite artist. He is originally from Norwich UK and i found his work on the website http://abduzeedo.com/ which features artist and illustrators from around the world. his work is mainly in illustration, and comments societies relationship and obsession with popular culture, and its affect on the world. he does this by juxtaposing popular consumer images with people of developing countries. contrasting wealth and poverty, 1st world and developing world, and the state of the world that we live in. His images are very direct and centered within a white space, and uses images that allow us to see the effect of popular culture and consumerism, as we are able to identify the pop symbols in the image, but not the decent or location the subject may come from. Showing the global effect of consumerism, our general ignorance to the rest of the world's problems, and the selfish nature of the 1st world due to consumption and ideology to pop culture.

http://www.adambatchelor.co.uk/

Richard A kirk is a recent artist that i discovered while looking at artist's website's online. He is a visual artist and illustrator based in Canada, and work is mainly consists of surreal drawings. Kirk's work approaches the ideas of reality and the imagination, challenging our ideas of aesthetics in drawing figures and creatures. his creations usually morph human traits along with animal and plant matter to create unique bodies, and forms that exist within and outside of a space or stage. This technique works well in his work, which pays a lot of attention to detail to have micro and macro of life forms coexist simultaneously.

http://www.richardakirk.com/index.html

Andres Miro Quesada is a Peruvian painter who i have recently discovered. Quesada's paintings are very photorealistic, which works in his favor as his images portray snap shots of everyday life and activities. These images are effective in portraying the mood, tone and humor of moments of his or his subjects life, and reveal the little details in our movements and gestures that we fail to see, and notice in our lives. His work takes pleasure in displaying the beauty of the milliseconds that we fail to notice, as we look at the grander scheme of our lives. this shows most in his series of paintings where he captures his facial movements as he sneezes. movements and facial expressions that the subject is usually unavailable to see.

http://andresmiroquesada.blogspot.com/