Todd White’s work depicts a world where it is always Friday night. His characters are no shrinking violets, always out on the town, or on the red carpet. White, who was part of the animation team for Sponge Bob Square Pants, has turned the focus from a pineapple under the sea to a world of cool cat/rat pack where the smiles might be fake but the drinks are real (if one is to judge by the touch of colour in the cheeks).

Artist: Todd White
+ artofwhite.com

Blues, greens, reds, oranges – these are the colours that make up the landscapes and horizons of Texas artist Rebecca Bennett. Bennett’s oil paintings are bursts of positive energy that remain under control on the canvas. Her Chiaroscuro series differs in that various shades of grey dominate the misty scenes, in contrast to a foreground of vivid water, reflected subtly in the sky. Her most recent canvases are painted while they lie flat and she manipulates the movement of the oils with brushes, knives and mineral spirits, layering colour upon texture to create her abstractions.

Artist: Rebecca Bennett
+ rebeccabennettartworks.com

Joseph Pendergast creates both works on paper as well as oils on wood and mirrors, using a mixture of painting, stenciling and collage techniques. The patterns that are created are often inspired by textiles and architectural forms and leaf shapes dominate his works, lending themselves to an air of rhythm and movement. The delicate colours and composition evoke a sense of music somehow, notes lurking in those layered backgrounds.

Artist: Joseph Pendergast
+ Pendergast.NeoImages.net

Klari Reis stirs a little science into her art while applying an interest in bioengineering to her smoothly dazzling pieces. Reis works with epoxy polymer, a synthetic derived from hydrocarbons that have been extracted from crude oil, which dries to a shiny plasticized finish. The result is an array of colourful interpretations of magnified microscopic molecular forms, all bearing the names of prescription drugs. Reis combines ideas with are organic with those that are highly technological, all while working with a toxic substance to produce an esthetically pleasing body of work.

Artist: Klari Reis
+ klarireis.com

Artist James Roper works in such a wide variety of media that it is extremely difficult to choose just one to feature. But the colours and energy of his sculptural installations, such as 3-D Brushstrokes, are hard to beat. Roper made about ten origami flowers a day for three years to create Devotion, and likewise saved the masking tape he used for edges for about two and a half years to create the Masked Ball. Obsessive? Just a bit – lucky for us.

Artist: James Roper
+ jroper.co.uk

French artist Marc Molk works mostly with acrylic on canvas, producing colourful paintings that are political in nature. But also in his bag of tricks are several small works on paper that are quirkier, mixed media pieces that depict lunar walks transferred to bowls of food, or a goose quietly swimming among frying donuts. In another series, family snapshot scenarios are invaded by tiny action figures and spaceships. Clearly, nothing is as clear as it may have seemed.

Artist: Marc Molk
+ molk.fr

Chuck Anderson does work for Absolut, ESPN, Nike and Reebok, among others, and has trouble defining his style, so he brands himself as NoPattern.

Paris-based Diako has an on-line gallery of great paintings evoking many textures.

And there is a wide variety of neat photos, both black and white and colour over at numine.com.

Linsay Blondeau's contemporary watercolours hark back to an old-fashioned age of nursery rhymes and fairy tales. Blondeau's characters have one eye, the childhood point of view, larger than the other, more mature one and appear to straddle the divide between youthful innocence and adult peculiarities. Her works bring to mind the illustrations of children's books hidden away in an attic, but these would have to accompany stories with non-traditional plot twists. Don't go down to the woods alone (or the evil, raging teapots might get you).

Artist: Linsay Blondeau
+ starecase.com

David Kapp brings the movement of the city to his canvas, with the modes of transportation and the people who need them as his leitmotif. Kapp’s cityscapes are like the city itself: a teeming, bustling flurry of action and activity. This is well expressed by busy brushstrokes and just enough abstraction to keep up the pace. The movement is the subject, colours take a back seat to the motion they are meant to convey.

Artist: David Kapp
+ zanebennettgallery.com

Silvia B.’s latest venture is a series of tan leather gloves meant to resemble skin with embellishments that ape certain conditions. This Skinover collection again parodies a standard concept of beauty, as the elegant elbow-length gloves sport nasty little moles (complete with tiny sprouting hair), black surgical sutures or knuckle tattoos spelling out LOVE and HATE. These are wearable sculptures in lambskin and Silvia B. means to bring out a new model every month that shows a particular skin peculiarity.

Artist: Silvia B.
+ skinover.biz

Well, a year has passed since the inception of Art MoCo and we would like to thank you all for the wonderful support. It is always great to hear from artists (or their friends) who are interested in sharing their work, so please don’t ever hesitate to contact us at Art MoCo. Dealing with modern and contemporary art and its predecessors on a daily basis is exciting, provocative and extremely nourishing, so keep it coming.