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Marcus Jansen

Josh Rubin

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For the past 30 years, Manhattan-born artist Marcus Jansen has been defining the term "urban expressionist" with his mixed-media canvasses that blend realism, graffiti, and abstract techniques. Exploring the "beauty and contradiction" of cityscapes, his richly layered compositions incorporate text clipped from newspapers, digital prints, and more recently, stencils. For the series here, Jansen used designs by Stencil1 that fit thematically with his subject matter, skillfully integrating the crisp lines of the stencils with his spontaneous brushstrokes. Check out more recent images here and preorder his forthcoming book Modern Urban-Expressionism from his website.

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Josh Rubin

Josh Rubin is COOL HUNTING's founder, editor and executive creative director. He brings his background as a photographer and expertise as a user experience designer to his point of view on what makes a good story for CH—this most often include some kind of intersectionality between art, culture, technology and design. Josh is a bit of an urban hippie, obsessed with most things Japanese, a Sealyham Terrier lover and very food motivated.

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