Dominic Paul Moore

http://www.dominicpaulmoore.com/myspace.html

from Dailyserving.com:

"Moore's work has a rather morbid premise. The artist utilizes the site MyDeathSpace.com, an archival site of obituaries of MySpace members with links to their profiles. His gouache and graphite photo-realistic drawings mirror the virtual profiles that continue to exist after the life of the user has passed, creating a slightly haunting posthumous profile. The above image, Mandii, provides an artistic memento mori while bringing the viewer face to face with Mandii's mortality and the immortality of the Internet. MySpace has previously been included in both Time Magazine and PC World's rankings of the worst web sites to visit, a conceptual catapult for this particular body of work.
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Clever guy. I have the distinct impression of having thought to do something like this and that idea having faded out of memory as quickly as is materialized. I love his concept, and the slight degradation created by projecting and hand-copying the image of the deceased's myspace has a crude finish I find appealing, especially given the bounty of mispellings and shallow dialogue that often litter such pages. It kinda makes me want to do something along the same lines, if only for the experience and the addition to my portfolio. Art made in approval and admiration of another's art, maybe; it's been done before to famous effect.

An artist named Paul Campbell is also mentioned alongside Moore, and he does paintings of people's facebook photos (damn it, I'm doing drawings and paintings of that too!), but his paint handling is boring and terrible so I don't really care about his work.