With dye-like paints on raw linen, Pedro Pedro creates vivid still lifes. He depicts bounties of fruit, large
bouquets of flowers in full bloom, piles of clothes, and tables overflowing with art supplies—juxtaposing
both tidy and disheveled scenes of abundance throughout his body of work... Read the full article by clicking above!
Todd Schorr creates weird and ambitious works that feel like fever dreams about death, sex, and a fear that the good times are long gone. Read the full article by clicking above!
In some ways, Di Piazza’s work is influenced by his own environment. Although he was born in Syracuse, Sicily, Di Piazza was raised and continues to reside in Palermo. He describes the ancient city as a “melting pot,”... Read the full article by clicking above!
Scott Teplin gets his artistic kicks by turning things inside out, by mangling and mashing and cohabitating the objects of his obsession.Read the full article on the artist by clicking above.
Julia Randall’s drawings are unexpectedly seductive, like a sudden whiff of perfume caught brushing past a stranger. The content of her work is not something our eyes are trained to scour for signs of sex, but we find them there anyway... Read the full article by clicking above!
Strange—the sensation one gets when confronted with mounds of bruised, tumorous flesh, mingled with various forbidden fruits, festering produce, and delicious looking gummy forms. Such is the kind of disorienting cornucopia that Christian Rex van Minnen brings to the table.. Read the full article by Zara Kand by clicking above.
Casey Weldon's work is like the house of mirrors at a carnival. Instead of stretching and distorting the human patrons that stumble into the labyrinthine funhouse, though, Weldon's work entraps American culture itself... Read the full article by clicking above!
With a two-headed, dozen-eyed Mona Lisa, a disjointed Frida Kahlo exploding like tiny little pieces of glass, and a tiny Napoleon in Egypt sitting on a gargantuan, long-limbed horse, collage artist and illustrator Lola Dupre proves that there’s art to be done after art is… well… done. Click above to read the full article by Liana Aghajanian.
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"I’m more interested in revealing the quiet violence of what we call ‘normal’ than in telling anyone what to feel. If a viewer finds their own discomfort in that—it’s a gift, not something I try to control.”
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"I'm trying to create a portrait of a person without their face, which is really interesting to me," Laurie Lee Brom says. Instead, she allows the setting and actions to shed light on who this person is... Read the full article by clicking above.
“I don't aim for my art to be political, but because I have my own perspective and worldview, that inevitably comes through in the art,” says Shyama Golden. Read Silke Tudor's full article on the artist by clicking above.
Max Seckel's paintings are all about the details. His landscapes come alive with the messy signs of humanity: a traffic cone standing in a puddle surrounded by a weedy yard; a utility pole teetering behind a dumpster; streams of yellow tape banding around trees. Read more about the article by clicking above!
Sean Norvet has long been described as a Renaissance-inspired satirist, a mish-masher of photorealism and cartoons into goofy–gruesome critiques of consumer culture or social media habits or other twenty-first-century concerns. Read the full article by clicking above..
“I never imagined being a ceramic artist when I was a kid,” Iwamura admits. “I had no interest.” But today, he is a ceramicist living and working in Shigaraki—a small town east of Kyoto and home to one of Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above.
"I have a hunch that any successful painting creates work for the viewer,” says the painter Ben Spiers. “I think that's part of the reason why it can be hard to begin the process of looking at paintings seriously..." read the full article on Benjamin Spiers by clicking above!
“My art has always tried to illustrate the spiritual world leaking into the material world. Two worlds affect and play off each other..." Read the full article on Justin Lovato by clicking above!
“Creating new characters is a way for me to collect ‘things’ without having to collect actual physical things. Read the full article on Matt Furie by clicking above!
James Lipnickas has used horror tropes for a long time. But his works were once much more linear. That used to mean monsters, aliens, and isolated landscapes that had something haunted about them. A giant worm pouring its effluence into a cabin. A force within exploding the cabin.
The horror has changed. Click above to read the full article.
Peter Ferguson creates scenes filled with intriguing characters often caught in very strange situations. His people quite often exist in darkly humorous fantasy realms where elements like vintage fashion and the occasional nod to pop culture connect their reality to ours. Read the full article by clicking above!
Katie Heck has built an immense body of work that crosses disciplines, from painting to sculpture to film. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!
Erin M. Riley, an artist out of Philadelphia, is urging you to really rethink your notion of weaving and looming by transforming it from traditional to anything but. Read Eva Glettner's interview withthe articst from our archives by clicking above.
Wayne White’s pictures start with thrift store paintings... White seizes on a startup surface that was a middle class decorator staple in the ‘50s and ‘60s.. read Mat Gleason's article on the artist by clicking above!
"Even though I would hope to be remembered as a portrait artist—canonizing the image of Indigenous people within art history—I am constantly set upon side quests,” says multidisciplinary Canadian artist Wally Dion.. read the full article by clicking above.
Cartoonist Jay Howell is "looking forward to the next thing, always". Click above to read the full article.
GWAR was never an ordinary rock band. And in the recent documentary This Is GWAR, director Scott Barber digs into the past and present of the music and art collective that simultaneously defied categorization while infiltrating late twentieth century pop culture and continues to entertain fans today with heavy metal and elaborate—even gory—stage shows. Read Liz Ohanesian's full article by clicking above.
“When I learned that there was a technique called honkadori, I thought it was interesting,” says Watanabe. “It seemed like an invasion or challenge to the idea of Western art and original works.” Read the full article by clicking above.
Yuko Shimizu is a New York-based illustrator, whose bold manga lines depict intimate narrative scenes from myth, science fiction, and pop iconography, creating a visual genre all her own. Read the full article by Harrison Cook clicking above!
Incorporating a mix of objects—everything from old toys to dead bugs to simple paper constructions—Lewis Chamberlain builds unusual scenarios... Read the full article by clicking above!
In Edward Telleri's paintings, eyes become living forms.. Read more by clicking above!
