The NYC Mind

“The Beautiful Street Art of Brasil”   series

OS GEMEOS

Os Gêmeos (Portuguese for The Twins) are graffiti artist identical twin brothers (born 1974) from Sao Paulo, Brasil,  whose real names are Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became a main influence in the local scene, helping to define Brazil’s own style. Their work often featues yellow-skinned characters - taken from the yellow tinge both of the twins have in their dreams - but is otherwise diverse and ranges from tags to complicated murals. Subjects range from family portraits to commentary on São Paulo’s social and political circumstances, as well as Brazilian folklore. Their graffiti style was influenced by both traditional hip hop style and the Brazilian culture.

STEVEN BRAHMS

Brooklyn, New York City

TATIANA SUAREZ

Brooklyn - New York City

Tatiana Suarez  is a Brooklyn-based Miami native. Her charming style is distinctive — first, the trademark eyes that draw the viewer into a beautiful and surreal world. Suarez takes full advantage of the oil paint’s ability to create creamy, soft images on canvas. Rich with symbols that stem from her Brazilian and El Salvadorian heritage, subjects appear as if they are under water, frozen in lovely stillness. The doe-eyed figures look childlike, but also exude sexual overtones, ornamented with plants, insects and other unsettling accompaniments. Beauty is presented concurrently with exotic — even creepy — creatures to create enchanted narratives.

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TEAGAN WHITE

HSIN YAO TSENG

Hsin-Yao Tseng b. 1986, Taipei, Taiwan

Around the age of ten, Hsin-Yao started painting in watercolors, as well as other mediums, out side of school. Theearly exposure instilled in him the foundation needed to excel at very earlyage. 

Hsin-Yao received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree in painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco, in 2009 and his Master of Fine Art degree from the same university in 2012. He works ina range of genres: from lush evocations of San Francisco and other cities toexpressive portraits and finally to lustrous interiors in which multiple figures enact a story. He usually uses the visual richness and the muted tonesof color, and expressive brush-strokes to indicate his subjects. His dedicationand interest in the arts is apparent from over ten years of hard work andacademic studies. 

His many awards include Exceptional Merit Award at the 2012 International Portrait competition at Portrait Society of America, second place in the portrait/figure category of The Artist’sMagazine’s 2008 Annual Competition, a Certificate of Excellence in the 2010 Portrait Society of America International Portrait Competition, and finalist in the Art Renewal Center Salon for 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. He’s represented by the Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona; Waterhouse Gallery, in Santa Barbara,California; the Garden Gallery in Half Moon Bay, California; and Howard/Mandevile Gallery in Kirkland, Washington. 

Henry Mitchell

Interior Architecture

New York City

An admirer of all things beautiful, Henry first expressed his interest in design at the age 16 by painting his bedroom and all of its contents Black, much to his mother’s dismay. He began his professional career at Jack Travis Architects and in 1995 opened his own practice, Henry Mitchell Interior Architecture. Quite relieved, his mother celebrated when New York Magazine listed him as one of New York’s 100 ‘Best’ Interior Designers.

Henry’s diverse and discerning clientele rely on his proficiency in interior and architectural design as well as his expertise in the custom design of furniture, lighting and site-specific hardware. His design aesthetic skillfully blends elements of contemporary design with elements of classic design. His design practice is recognized for its detailed simplicity, functionality, and elegance as he strives to render interiors that are accessible, rational, and pure. His creative process incorporates the concepts of masterful space planning and an insistence that the individual be reflected in their own living environment.

Henry lives and works in New York City. His work has been profiled in national publications and he now only occasionally paints a room Black.

JACK  FARAGASSO

Jack Faragasso is a native New Yorker. He is known nationally and internationally as an art instructor, fine artist, illustrator and author. He has been teaching students of all ages, to draw and paint in the time-honored realistic manner, at the Art Students League of New York since 1968. He has also taught at the Woodstock School of Art and the Scottsdale Artists School in Arizona. As an instructor of the Frank J. Reilly School of Art, he then became its director after the death of Mr. Frank Reilly in 1967. Frank J. Reilly was and still is regarded by many as one of the finest teachers of drawing and painting in the country. Faragasso, who studied with and worked under Reilly for many years, is the foremost authority on the Reilly system of drawing and painting.

As a thoughtful and knowledgeable teacher, the author has carefully researched and practiced every phase of the subject. He spent much time in the great museums of Europe and America studying the works of the Old Masters. The author uses many of the drawing and painting principles of the Reilly system, and over the years, he has elaborated upon these principles, and added to them. Mr Faragasso’s comprehensive knowledge of his field is evident in his book entitled The Student’s Guide to Painting, which was published by North Light in 1980. He has recently contributed articles on various artistic topics to the magazines Watercolor Magic and A.R.T. Ideas.

For the past twenty years, Mr. Faragasso has concentrated on not only art instruction, but the fine arts as well. Many of his paintings have gained recognition, and are found in private collections throughout the United States and abroad. Prior to now, Mr. Faragasso has painted hundreds of paperback book covers, mainly of the science fiction and gothic romance categories which have been distributed worldwide.

Mr. Faragasso is listed in the Dictionary of International Biography, Men of Achievement, International Who’s Who in Art and Antiques, Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who in American Education and the biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. He is a life member of the Art Student’s League, the Artists Fellowship and A.R.T., the American Renaissance of the Twenty-first Century.

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PASCAL LALOY

Affiliate Artists’ House

France  In  The  House

Born in 1972

Exposes and creates works in situ since 1996
Artist involved in psychiatric institutions between 1999 and 2006

Lives and works in Rennes, France