Emerge

e·merge
/əˈmərj/
verb
To move out of or away from something and come into view.
 
Welcome and thank you for joining us for Emerge, exclusively at Rogue Gallery. Presented for your enjoyment and edification is a list of a dozen emerging talents. This list suggests the breadth and scope of the New World Creative and introduces artists who are making their presence known in the movement. These twelve artists bring an array of inspiration, methodology, and technique to their work. A couple are already immediately recognizable, and all are on the path to becoming household names.

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Ayogu Kingsley

Born September 23rd, 1994, in Aji Igboeze North L.G.A. Enugu, Nigeria. Ayogu Kingsley holds a Masters NCE in Painting and Graphics, Certified by Enugu State College of Education. He is one of the leading figures of the Hyper-realist movement, an artistic style that can often be mistaken as photography at first glance. Kingsley treats his paintings as poetry which captivates the viewer and inundates you in emotion. His art appeals to the conscience of the people whom experience his work. His paintings allow you to find compassion within yourself; they act as a trigger to tap into human solidarity.
Kingsley achieves this intensity through the stunning, lens-like detail applied to his work. Every blemish, scar or intricate feature he adds to his paintings help express the truth in his work. The majority of his work depicts his subjects in uncomfortable situations; situations with a wide spectrum of displayed emotion through tears, despair and affinity. The viewer is compelled to feel connected to the paintings, searching for ways to console or free the subject from distress. His paintings endorse unity and human empathy, bridging a relationship between his work and his viewers.
 When putting paint to canvas Kingsley examines nuances of the human figure. The facial structure is a key element he explores in his work. The movement of muscles, hair and even sweat are components of his art that make the pieces more dynamic. The way he paints shows that he understands the human figure at a superior level, possessing the ability to recreate a figure and manipulate it to convey a vivid message.

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Tina Lynn Ellis

​Tina Lynn Ellis is a multi-disciplined self taught artist. She is primarily an intuitive artist, her work is the result of a desire to have direct communication with the unconscious to further connection with the greater world around her. Tina uses many different tools to achieve this... painting, illustrating, photography, photo editing , and in 2008 she added Art Dolls/Sculpture to her repertoire and has developed a deep love of the art form. It is always her hope that something she creates will spark a flame of thought in the viewer that leads them to their own creative expression. 

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Folkicide

A punk musician by proclivity and an artist by inevitability, Burnie Booth began creating his primitivist collages as album covers for Folkicide, his performing moniker since 2007. Folkicide’s music, an acoustically violent folk driven exploration of extreme pessimism, despair and the nightmare of existence found a logical visual extension in the piecemeal medium of collage.
Tired of bothering his artist friends for album cover art, Booth assembled his first collage for the 2010 cover of the Folkicide release Let's Worship Degenerates. It juxtaposed Theravada Buddhist imagery found at a Bangkok street stall with ‘80s Warner horror comics, along with snippings from the Queen News of the World album cover. Surprised by the positive reaction to the odd aesthetic he had stumbled upon, Booth continued assembling collages now numbering in the hundreds.
Eschewing digital in favor of original source materials, Booth gets his imagery largely from estate sales in his native Kansas City (preferably on the final day when items are 75% off their original price), gifts from friends and other oddities he has acquired over the years. Favorite visual elements come from the aforementioned Warner horror comics, books on primitive man, Medieval art and Hare Krishna promotional material. Images are sliced and glued in a manner designed to invoke feelings of unease and existential dissonance but yet are often tinged with a deliberate element of humor: like H.P. Lovecraft whispering in the ear of a nitrous oxide intoxicated and X-Acto knife armed Hieronymus Bosch.
Over the years Booth’s collages have been displayed on the walls of various KC bars and music stores as well as a Saint Louis pop up art show. A Folkicide animated music video entitled Empire of the Ants utilizing Booth’s collage imagery was produced by local filmmaker Mikal Shapiro in 2013. His art is also to be featured on the cover of the upcoming Kool 100s record.

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Cecelia Ivy Price

Cecelia 'Ivy' Price (°1986, Buffalo, New York) makes paintings, photos, drawings, tattoo designs and conceptual artworks. With a conceptual approach, Price tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by expressing the human form and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. Her works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. By choosing mainly formal solutions, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, and likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes personal.
Her paintings are based on formal associations which open a unique dialog. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our vanity is questioned. She tries to develop a pallet that does not follow diluted criteria, but are created to incite the viewer to make new personal associations.
Her paintings are notable for their perfect finish and tactile nature. This is of great importance and bears witness to great craftsmanship.
By choosing mainly formal solutions, she finds that nudity reveals an inherent social awkwardness that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for the ever-seeking man who experiences a continuous loss. Her works create new sequences which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion in life and the stillness of death. Other subjects the artist has tackled include sexual abuse, personal loss, racism and body shaming.
The artist can easily imagine an interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. She has completed a study abroad in Italy and has started working from photographs she took while away. Some artists who influence her include Roberto Ferri, Shawn Barber, & Brom. Cecelia 'Ivy' Price currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. 

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Doug Waterfield

Doug Waterfield is a Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. His work has been shown at the United Nations Headquarters in Vienna, the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, the Los Alamos Historical Society Museum and the American Museum of Science and Energy. Also, in various galleries,bars, souvenir shops, tattoo parlors and seedy dives across America.
He enjoys hob-nobbing with the rich and infamous, watching terrible movies, world travel and collecting autographs. He hates lima beans, but loves good bourbon. He lives in Kearney with his wife and three children. He is also hell-bent on world domination through the creation of his own personal army of robot super-men.

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Miquael Res

​Miquael Res was born in 1968 In Germany, but now resides in the Netherlands. His love for horror and science fiction made him discover the artwork of artists like H.R.Giger and Zdzidslaw Beksinski which inspired him to start painting and develop his own morbid style. His work has already been included in the Dark Art Tarot project and will also be featured in a forthcoming documentary on Dutch national television.

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LoneHawk Whitlock

I like to bring forth life and beauty from the deceased. I manipulate bones, skulls and pelts into wearable art. As a youngster while hiking in the deserts of Texas, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah I would run across dead animals. The animal bones and death grin always filled me with a certain dread. An event that was promised to all but left to the surmising of when and how.
Now, in my late forties, death itself still has an odd unsettling aspect for me. The animals lying by the roadside, lives tragically taken while in search for food or shelter. Humans whom are murdered or taken by predators. Others that are dying by their own misdoings; others that are tyrannically stomped out, evicted from their homelands by government agents. Yes, men and woman with guns and their own psychopathic agendas, willing to kill and murder for a paycheck, for a job or to advance their career.
I have a fascination with the dead. Their story, their life before it was taken from them. I wish all beings could depart at their leisure. In accordance to their own agendas. Without unnecessary stress. It is for those beings that I find and the ones that are purchased, that I bring a different life force to. An improbable creation of unparalleled colors and beauty. I work towards creating and bringing forth an appreciation for these beings that are no longer offered. A life force that was once its own can now be honored in a form of art; at times even wearable art. Moving towards making ones animal spirit for people to remember this life is not just about them, it’s about all of us. The young, the old, the diminutive and the gigantic.
Magick and wonders are around us every day. Magick and the supernatural are as natural as the rising and setting of our galaxies sun. We must stop, look and listen. Even more importantly, ask, will and work that magick that is inherent in us all.

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Elvin Armando

Elvin Armando studied painting under Victor Roman and through self study. He spends most of his free time painting, creating contemporary narratives, while also developing a style unique to himself.
Elvin was born in Escondido, California, in 1997 and continues to live there.

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Jon Reyes

Jon Reyes is an artist who lives and works in Denver, Colorado.

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Jeremy Lampkin

​Jeremy Lampkin is a Chicago based artist whose work is focused on mental health awareness and spirituality.  Having mental health issues as a youngster, he lost all faith in the field of psychology by the time he reached adulthood.  He discovered alternative methods that got results where psychology failed.  Exploring a variety of personal development systems, one test called for the creation of a tarot deck, which is what ultimately reawakened Lampkin's love of art.  Religious and occult symbolism are ever present in Lampkin's art, often borrowing stories from mythology.  Personal and humiliating experiences often overlay religious story lines, bridging the gap between personal and universal experience.  Lampkin sees art as therapy:  a constructive way to deal with issues, and a way to start conversations on subjects that can be too difficult to speak of.

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​Valentin Kanellopoulos

Valentin Kanellopoulos began painting and drawing at school from 2010 till 2013. Since then, he has been working with dry pastel. In 2016 he started painting with acrylic on panels, and began exploring the medium of photography.

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JoKa

​While you are enveloped in sleep, JoKa is toiling into the night stippling acrylic paint to blank facades, using images of styles and faces of yore. Having a penchant for meticulous and detailed work led JoKa to his method of hyperpointillism, wherein he uses only toothpicks to apply his tiny dots of color. Although his images may be skewed from direct interpretation, the meanings behind his work are usually dark in tone and leaning more towards a devious nature. Currently residing in Philadelphia, he has exhibited from coast to coast as well as lands afar.

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