An Interview with Neil Krug
This guy! Full disclosure here - he's possibly one of my biggest creative muses and when I found out I was getting a chance to interview him . . . well lets just say it was an adrenalin high, 2 breaths short o...
Jana Brike ‘Anatomy of Innocence’ @ Copro Gallery
"These fragments I have shored against my ruins” T. S. Eliot
For those of you familiar with Jana's work you'll understand its magic seems to pierce into the heart of you and touch something that goes well bey...
MAGICA SEXUALIS @ Stephen Romano Gallery
“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.” HEGEL
In this day and age it can be difficult to meaningfully broach a sense of taboo. Well past the age of sex, drugs and rock & roll we're somewhat immune to that n...
Jel Ena ‘Sanctum Infernum’ @ Stephen Romano Gallery
Just in time for All Hallows Eve, Brooklyn's Stephen Romano Gallery will present Jel Ena's latest solo show, 'Sanctum Inferno'. Jel Ena is a Serbian born multi-media artist living in her adopted home of Los An...
Photogasm: Lush And Lo-Fi
We present our favourite photography finds of the week, sourced from various social media platforms.
Enjoy beautiful.bizarre’s weekly Photogasm! LUSH & LO-FI Neil Krug Jess Gough Shae DeTar ...
Rithika Merchant ‘Luna Tabulatorum’ @ Stephen Romano Gallery
This September Stephen Romano Gallery will open it's doors to it's new Bushwick, Brooklyn location with two concurrent exhibitions. 'Lexicon Infernali' is the inaugural group exhibition featuring a host of work...
Cecilia Avendaño’s Beautiful Strangers: Interview
"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.” Mary Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN.
With an ingredients list that reads like a mad scienti...
OPUS HYPNAGOGIA @ The Morbid Anatomy Museum
Welcome to the borderlands . . .
The state between dreams and waking has long been considered a fertile creative space since the times of Aristotle. The stomping grounds of prophets, apocalypses, witchcraft, g...
Nate Frizzell: The Wild Unknown
“They’re animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”- Stephen King
Nate Frizzell’s hyperreal, figurative works remind me that there’s a special kind of magic that only paint...
Kikyz1313: Death Becomes Her
"Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and l...
JEFF BARK: LET THERE BE LIGHT
So the darkness shall be light, and the stillness the dancing. T. S. Eliot Drinking in Jeff Bark's work is like sipping on a mulled wine and chasing it with a dark cherry foam. It's brooding and sensual, cla...
Stephane Sednaoui: Not about a Pretty Girl
it takes courage to enjoy it
the hardcore and the gentle
big time sensuality
BJORK
Perhaps the only way to describe a mountain is to try to describe just one of it's views. Stephane Sednaoui is a French Pho...
PHOTOGASM
We present our favourite photography finds of the week, sourced from various social media platforms.
This time she's making love to the camera. It's fashion baby! Enjoy beautiful.bizarre’s weekly Photogasm!...
Rudd Van Empel & the Conceived Immaculate
"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel." Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Perfection. Beauty. Purity. Innocence. Those big juicy, tangible juggernauts you might think you can hold on to, but wh...
Hsiao Ron Cheng – We Aren’t All Angels
I remember an incident from first grade which has haunted me ever since. A group of my classmates were seated in a circle by the window. Boys with pulled up socks and shiny patent shoes. Rosy cheeked girls wit...
Marco Battaglini – Beautiful Mutiny
"Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful" ~ Victor Hugo.
Marco Battaglini is an artist who cavorts in the schizophrenic borderlands that...
ERIC FORTUNE – LIFE AQUATIC
“. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that th...
Dan Quintana: The Camo Chameleon
When first examining the scope and breadth of LA artist, Dan Quintana's work, I can't help but feel I'm blindly trying to pin the tail onto a wayward phoenix. Nailing that critter down is like kissing bubbles. ...
Anna Halldin Maule – Material Girl
"Love fashion but don't let it consume you". Anna Halldin Maule's Photo-realist oil paintings reside in that gravity defying territory that is irony. At once they depict the glossy wonderland of contemporary...
Dan Baldwin – Tick. Tick. Boom!
Upon first sight, Dan Baldwin's works explode across the canvas in a cacophony of colour, symbolism and high octane joie de vivre. Childhood innocence, Religion, Politics, cultural iconography and pop totems hu...