pop surrealism – Humoring the Goddess

Okuda is a Spanish painter, designer and sculptor whose work is defined as pop surrealism.Oscar San Miguel or Okuda San Miguel was born in Santander in 1980 and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Madrid’s Complutense University. Okuda’s work can be classified as pop surrealism with a clear essence of street or urban art.His artwork is composed of geometric prints and multicolored ephemeral architectures that help blend with grey bodies and organic forms.He started with graffiti on walls and trains, but little by little his style evolved to a major point. Now it is common to see his enormous works in some buildings around all continents, as well as exhibitions in different places.

He is often inspired by his environment, the people around him, cinema, fashion, ear music, traveling, and his everyday life.Okuda concludes that his major accomplishments lie in having the freedom to travel around the world creating his best works of art alone, working, and the living experiences with other artists from different cultures.More of Okuda’s bright, colorful work can be found at https://okudasanmiguel.com/.

Arabella Proffer is an artist, author, and co-founder of the indie label Elephant Stone Records.She attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA before receiving her BFA from California Institute of the Arts.Considered a pop surrealist painter, Proffer’s work combines interests in portraiture, visionary art, the history of medicine, and biomorphic abstraction.She delves into her practice of oil painting by creating surreal organic environments related to biology, nature, and emerging sciences.Although she started from a place of abstraction, her art became filled with strange hybrids of flowers, cells, and symbols that appeared like organisms from another planet.When her doctor showed her scans of her cancer tumor and close-ups of the cells, it looked almost identical to what she had been painting – tentacles and all.“Insects, flowers, human organs all come from the same process at the core, but within these works visualizing their fictional evolution at any given stage comes from instinct,” the artist explained.“Creating my own fragile beings and nature within these little worlds, alien forms mesh with what might be viewed under a microscope or through a telescope. Perhaps it is a wider vision of awareness, of what is seen and unseen.”More of Arabella Proffer‘s marvelous paintings can be found at http://www.arabellaproffer.com/.