Jul 18, 2018 · These portraits are by no means his main activity, but they’re definitely what garnered him worldwide fame; his emoji creations sell in record time. With celebrities and public figures as his protagonists, Yung Jake got his inspiration from …

Oct 27, 2016 · Without a doubt, Jake’s most successful project to date has been his celebrity emoji portrait series created with the emoji.ink app developed by his partner Vince McKelvie. It’s not hard to...

Jul 26, 2017 · Using emoji.ink as his tool, Yung Jake found he could “paint” pointillist portraits assembled from hundreds of goofy images of movie cameras, rabbits, moons, clouds, smiley faces, honey pots ...

Yung Jake is most well known for his emoji portraits, often of celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Leonardo DiCaprio, Willow Smith, and Kim Kardashian West. The portraits exist both as digital and physical works, and they have been shown, and sold, at various art fairs including Art Basel and Zona Maco .

Nov 6, 2017 · Yung Jake specializes in digital art. Most famously, he creates hyper-realistic, pointillistic portraits, generated entirely from emojis. His medium for these portraits is emoji.ink, an app released by his company Tig.ht Corp. and developed by McElvie. The portraits are exceptional: sensitive, detailed, and deeply symbolic works.

Various art world folks texted with Los Angeles-based rapper and visual artist Yung Jake about his latest exhibit, Emoji Portraits, held at Tripoli Gallery in Southampton. The show featured a mix of faces—mainly celebrity—comprised solely of emoji characters.

Jul 22, 2020 · A Los Angeles-based artist and rapper whose work consists of emoji-pointalist portraits (along with sculpture, painting, video, and performance works), yungjake exposes the blurring relations between art, internet, hip-hop, and …

Tripoli Gallery is pleased to present Emoji Portraits, its second solo exhibition with Los Angeles-based creator, Yung Jake. Featuring digital paintings ranging from 2015 to today, this exhibition marks the first presentation of his world-renowned emoji portraits in hard copy.

Jan 20, 2015 · Cropping up on his @yungjake Instagram account over the last few days, YJ’s Emoji portraits range from pop culture icons to cult hip-hop superstars, including a homage to recently passed A$AP Yams.

Jan 14, 2015 · A frequent pioneer when it comes to culture-jamming web art, Yung Jake very well may #BreakTheInternet with these new emoji portraits of celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Chief Keef, and Larry...