Internet Research -Steve Hodge

Armin Mersmann:

Armin Mersmann was born in Remscheid, Germany in 1955. In1962, along with his parents he immigrated to the United States. Mersmann grew up in an artistic environment and was greatly influenced and tutored by his father, Fritz, a successful oil painter. Mersmann feels his career as an artist was inevitable; "I never made the conscious choice to be an artist, it’s just what I did."After four years of college, Mersmann began a very successful stint as a portrait artist in Chicago, IL. Although financially rewarding, he stopped doing commission work and soon found more interest in the fine arts, work that at times is controversial, but more satisfying conceptually. "Art, my sanctuary, the very thing that gave me such pleasure was now reduced to making a living. Art is too precious for me to make decisions based on finances." This does not mean Mersmann will never do a commissioned portrait but it has to interest him conceptually, and he insists on total control over the image.

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Utilising a seamless and dynamic blend of traditional and digital mark making techniques he has accrued an international client list, been featured in publications around the world and become one of the industry's foremost contemporary portrait illustrators.He has also begun to build a reputation on the gallery scene with work being exhibited internationally in such prestigious venues as the London Design Museum, AgnesB, StolenSpace and Shepard Fairey’s Subliminal Projects Gallery.

Moises Mahiques:

Moisés Mahiques uses drawings to expand and question the value system of the contemporary individual, exploring the expressive possibilities of the line as well its figurative.

10 artists whose work I like:

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Graham Kelman

Adam Fuss

Dustin Battaion

Zaria Forman

Mathew Borrett

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Gabriel Moreno

Moises Mahiques

Vasili Godzh

10 artists whose work I do not like:

Merlin Carpenter

Cy Twombly
Damien Hirst
Melanie Rae Zero
Sue Coe
Zhou Fan
Magem
Laurie Justus Pace
Anthony Goicolea
Jean Michel Basquiat