Alberto Seveso

I discovered Alberto Seveso on the Rhizome website. He is a 35 Italian man who began using Paint when he was a teenager. He now uses Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to create his pieces. He has not gone to art school or had any art training, but his work has a distinct and professional quality that proves his experience. He explores female sexuality using often sexually explicit black and white photographs of women and "sperm shaping," which essentially is vectors that are shaped like sperm that he creates in Adobe Illustrator.

I was struck by how he accentuates the female figure with his unique and colorful vectors. Some of his pieces were borderline pornographic but others were abstract and almost hauntingly beautiful. I will certainly be able to draw inspiration from the way he combines photographs and vectors seamlessly.

Sources:

http://www.rhizome.org/artbase/artwork/49697/

http://veerle-v2.duoh.com/art/comments/alberto_seveso/