. . . . . "Biagio Black"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Biagio Black is an American artist who is based in New York and Los Angeles. Black is best known for his distinctive large format portraits of fashion icons that include Vivienne Westwood, Kate Moss, Kiera Knightley, and Marion Cotillard. Black's work has mostly been featured in Los Angeles and New York City. His work is characterized by deconstructing his subjects into intricate patterns of flat-fields that appear as a kind of color topography from up-close, yet from a distance, comes together to form a whole image \u2013 at times photorealistic and at other times highly stylized."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1083536956"^^ . . . . . "American"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "13878380"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Biagio Black"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "9863"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "California, United States"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Artist"@en . . . . . "Biagio Black is an American artist who is based in New York and Los Angeles. Black is best known for his distinctive large format portraits of fashion icons that include Vivienne Westwood, Kate Moss, Kiera Knightley, and Marion Cotillard. Black's work has mostly been featured in Los Angeles and New York City. His work is characterized by deconstructing his subjects into intricate patterns of flat-fields that appear as a kind of color topography from up-close, yet from a distance, comes together to form a whole image \u2013 at times photorealistic and at other times highly stylized. While living in Paris, Black gained recognition in the fashion industry after completing a video art piece for Kate Moss. Ford Models commissioned Black to do a series of illustrations of their L.A. based models including a portrait of model, Chanel Iman. Printed on Fords Models' comp cards, his unique illustrations gained collector status within the L.A. fashion community. Thereafter, Black selected ten of the illustrations and created 6-ft tall painted versions for a series entitled, \"New Faces\". Black's \u201CNew Faces\u201D along with multiple portraits from other collections was featured in a special exhibition at the Los Angeles MOCA in 2009 during Downtown LA Fashion Week. Black states he draws inspiration from Warhol, Rauschenberg, Bill Sienkiewicz, punk, movie posters, product design, and Pop Culture."@en . . . "Biagio Black"@en . . . . . . . . . . . .