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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: HIKARI SHIMODA6

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: ALEXIS MARCOU10

FEATURED ARTWORK: SHIFT

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NEW ART RELEASES

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LORA ZOMBIE X THE HUNDREDS

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FEATURED ARTWORK: KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR

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AGNES CECILE PAINTS ‘APNEA’

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Hikari Shimoda, based in Nagano, Japan, first

studied illustration at the prestigious Kyoto

Saga University of Art. She was selected

for her first solo exhibition at Motto Gallery

in Japan immediately upon graduating in

2008, effectively launching her career as

a contemporary artist. She has since held

exhibitions in galleries across the globe

spanning Japan, the United States, Canada

and Italy. In late 2014, she held a highly

acclaimed solo exhibition at Corey Helford

Gallery in California, titled “Fantastic Planet,

Goodbye Man”.

Hikari Shimoda’s artwork paints a world

where cuteness and horror coexist, where

fantasy meets reality. Inspiration for her

ambiguous child characters stems from the

Japanese pop culture that she grew up with

and it has greatly influenced her “Irasuto” and

low brow art style. Painted with a delightful

color palette, macabre and nightmarish

elements become suddenly whimsical,

offering themes of struggle, heroism and

innocence in modern society.

IMAGE ‘END OF SORROW’ BY HIKARI SHIMODA

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THE EULOGY AT A FUNERAL BY HIKARI SHIMODA

THE WORLD WE DO NOT KNOW, THAT TODAY BY HIKARI SHIMODA

CHILDREN OF THIS PLANET 24 BY HIKARI SHIMODA

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Alexis Marcou, an internationally renowned

artist and illustrator based in London, has

been making a name for himself since

graduating from Plymouth University in

2007. His powerful style translates equally

well on fine art gallery walls as it does in

multi-national advertising campaigns for

high profile brands such as Hewlett Packard,

Nike, Atomic Skis and Designers Against

Child Slavery. Marcou’s talent for capturing

dynamic motion in abstract forms blends

beautifully with his empathetic sense of

line in the exclusive print collection available

at Eyes On Walls.

IMAGE ‘TASTE OF GLORY’ BY ALEXIS MARCOU

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COCAINE BY ALEXIS MARCOU

MR. RABBIT BY ALEXIS MARCOUMOUNTAIN PEAK BY ALEXIS MARCOU

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On January 30th, Lora Zombie was

on the West Coast to celebrate

the pre- release of a recent collaboration

with The Hundreds at their store in

Santa Monica, CA. The event marked

the first opportunity to purchase the

new Lora Zombie X The Hundreds

“Open Wide” tee, now available in

their spring 2015 collection, featuring

Lora’s take on the classic Adam Bomb

mascot. Eyes On Walls was on hand to

give out a set of 3 exclusive prints that

Lora did for the shirt’s commission to the

first 50 people that purchased the new

tee. Attendees had the chance to watch

Lora live paint an explosive piece titled

‘Pugzilla, Little Girl, Mr Bird With a Match

and Adam the Bomb’ while guitarist Dima

Ali Oli provided the soundtrack. Check out

a video from the evening on our blog at:

WWW.EYESONWALLS.COM/LORAZOMBIEHUNDREDS

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PUGZILLA, LITTLE GIRL, MR BIRD WITH A MATCH AND ADAM THE BOMB | 17

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20 | THE DAY THE WORLD WENT AWAY

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Self-taught Los Angeles based artist Alex Cherry

blurs the line between art and design with digital

works directly inspired by music and pop culture.

22 | TURN DOWN FOR WHAT

TAKE A LOOK AROUND BY ALEX CHERRY

DREAMER BY ALEX CHERRY

ULTRAVIOLET BY ALEX CHERRY

KURT BY ALEX CHERRY

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Charlie Bowater spent her childhood drawing her favorite

characters and insisting she’d grow up to be an animator.

Charlie is an illustrator and self-taught digital artist, inspired

by music, photography and the wonderful weirdness of life.

26 | FOOLS GOLD

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28 | KING BIRD

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Lora Zombie is a self-taught painter from Russia and a top

seller on the urban art scene. With a unique commentary

on pop culture and keen eye for beauty, her raw and grungy

trademark style is unmistakable.

30 | UMBRELLA BOY

JESUS LOVES YOU BY LORA ZOMBIE

CATWOMAN’S MUM BY LORA ZOMBIE

CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON BY LORA ZOMBIE

PARACHUTE CAT BY LORA ZOMBIE

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“This image is a combination of the instrument William S.

Burroughs referred to as the ‘Soft Machine’ and elements

of a ruined version of ‘POP’, one of my previous works. By

merging the two I hoped to invoke a sense of the vitality

of the past, the life associated with it and the construct

of the future filtered through the medium of the past. It is

about the shift that occurs when attempting to grasp onto

those new values.” - HR-FM ON HIS NEW PIECE, ‘SHIFT’

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Drawing inspiration from a previous piece tit led ‘The Shadow Sea’ , Alex

Cherry created the ‘Endpire’ Series imagining the viewpoint of the last

person al ive to see the icons of our world's most powerful c it ies . What

power do these icons of empires have when there is no one left to see them?

ENDPIRE I BY ALEX CHERRY

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ENDPIRE II BY ALEX CHERRY

ENDPIRE III BY ALEX CHERRY