The incredible Alex Grey.
Click the picture [copyright Alex Grey] to visit a gallery of his work with a very short, clinical/anti-clinical auto-bio.
His wife Allyson also does interesting paintings, a small gallery of them here. Both these galleries are hosted by the interesting AfterNoon site.
Buy
Alex Grey's book by clicking here.
The astounding Allen Toney, upon whose armature the clay of photographs at last becomes prehensile.
Click the picture [copyright Allen Toney] to visit his galleries. The iris prints of his images, for sale there, must be fantastic - I'd love to see these images in proper detail. Appallingly, no books of his work seem to exist!
Also recommended are his extraordinary pages at the threshhold of anxious dreams.
The mind-boggling H. R. Giger.
Click on the picture [or its outline] [copyright HRGiger] - to go to one of his official sites, where you can get prints, originals, and books. The galleries associated are even more extraordinary for the wonderful images by other artists, many of whom I am otherwise a stranger to.Giger's official online galleries are very limited and a better idea of his work can probably be gotten from some of the unofficial galleries of his work posted by admirers, but his oversize books provide the finer resolution his detailed canvases deserve. You can buy the following books by clicking on the titles: Necromonicon, the sequel Necromonicon II, and Biomechanics are all marvelous, in the way nightmares can be marvelous. The machine gods are apparently not very wholesome.
De Es has a small gallery you can link to by clicking the picture [copyright De Es] . You can buy his book Heavy Light from his publisher Morpheus International's site, which has other galleries and info of interest, or by clicking here
Click on the picture [copyright Bob Venosa] to go to Robert Venosa's site, where you can view some galleries or purchase limited edition prints, posters, etc. Here perhaps even more than is usually the case, however, the low res online images fail to more than hint at the beauty of work whose power derives in part from its detail . Much higher resolution images are available in his books, unfortunately apparently out of print.
J. K. Potter is another, like Allen Toney, who subverts photographs, discarding their superficial objectivity like bloody wrapping paper . To visit an online gallery, click the picture [copyright J. K. Potter] .Other online galleries are hereand here. To buy his book click here.
Click on the above image [copyright MkdzK] to visit MkdzK, an extraordinary and beautifully designed site I've followed through many transformations over the years. The artist is very prolific and the enormous site changes frequently. I'm unaware of any print versions. A personal favorite [with Allen Toney's site] of truly html art.
Click on the picture [copyright Larry Auerbach] to visit Larry Auerbach's interesting gallery!
Click the picture [copyright Stanislw Kors] to visit Stanislaw Kors' Infrarealism site, with galleries and info.
Click on the picture [copyright Nick Hyde] to go to Nick Hyde's site, where you can buy originals and prints, get info, and view galleries [Nick Hyde is another painter of fine detail and the gallery images on his site don't give much a full idea of their extraordinary beauty].
Click on the image [copyright Christophe Vache] to visit Christophe Vacher's site with a nice gallery, bio and exhibition info, etc. Mr. Vacher has some work for sale through the Giger site above.
The mysterious and astounding Vonn Stropp is hard to see. A few images are scattered around on old magazines like Raw Visions and Art Alternatives [or was it Juxtapoz, the Robert Williams-associated magazine?] and at Henry Boxer's gallery, through whom one can purchase Vonn Stropp and other extraordinary originals. A few of his works are included in the very interesting anthology, many of its artists seemingly Art Brut [see the Derangement of the Senses gallery], "The End Is Near!".
The bookseller has up an excellent gallery of work from it from a lot of the artists; you can visit it by clicking on the picture [copyright Vonn Stropp] [7/21/00 The Gallery page seems to be down]. The book can be purchased through that site or by clicking here.
Click the picture [copyright XNO] to go to where Bess Cutler has posted a small gallery of possible eidetic imagery by XNO and where you can buy posters and photos by other artists as well as XNO.
Click the picture [copyright Mark Ryden] to go to Mark Ryden's galleries.You can buy prints and other merchandise and get info at his site.
Click the image to go to Wr-eye-tings Scratchpad, with links to concrete and visual web poetry including java and flash implementations.
Click the logo to visit the KCRW page of Joe Frank, many of whose brilliant radio shows are available on streaming audio and audio cd.
Other artists I'd like to include, but who seem to lack both books in
print and decent web galleries, include Ernst Fuchs, M. C. Escher, Mati
Klarwein, Arnulf Rainer, Mark Beyer, Georganne Deen, Rich Rethorn, Mad
Geoerge,and Paul
Laffoley. [Well, Paul Laffoley does have some nice images at the same
"The End Is Near!" site]. Coming: Ralph Steadman's polaroid work, Todd
Schorr, Joe Coleman, Robert Williams.
This gallery is still under construction.
