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The Mesmerizing Figures of Aaron Nagel

Evan Senn

July 25, 2017

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Redd Walitzki TAKES OVER Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

Kylie Dexter

July 18, 2017

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The Witty Grunge-Based Narrative of Lora Zombie

Lee Tudor

July 17, 2017

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Kaligrafics Sant Feliu + Contorno Urbano International Call to Artists

Bella Harris

July 14, 2017

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Alexa Meade: Playing with Shadows and Optical Illusions

Kim Crowie

July 13, 2017

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A woman with the uncanny ability to turn three-dimensional imagery into two-dimensional works of art, Alexa Meade has made a name for herself in this extraordinary medium of creative expression. Real life i...

Erin M. Riley Weaves Contemporary Risqué Tapestry Art

Jennifer Gori

July 12, 2017

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In a world diving each day more in digital and augmented reality, it is refreshing to notice the popularity of old physical art techniques among the younger generations. Indeed, activities that were once re...

“Hopelessly Obsessive Creative”: Interview with Mab Graves

Marie Larkin

July 11, 2017

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When Mab Graves is talking, I always stop to listen. It's worth taking the time. She is a highly sought after interview subject. She creates wonderfully accessible fantasy worlds through her paintings and drawings, and I think we are all drawn into them an...

Bringing Fairytales to Life: The Art of Zelyss

Kylie Dexter

July 10, 2017

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Pop surrealism inspired by incredible Japanese dolls and fairytales, romanticized and made serene on the canvas. Take a deep breath and fall into their enormous welcoming souls. Bringing big eyes into the m...

Primal Instincts: The Sculptures of Beth Cavener

Jennifer Susan Jones

July 8, 2017

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Regal, submissive, smug, and primal. Browse the sculptures of Beth Cavener and you’ll see both predators and prey - predominantly hares – suspended in postures that powerfully portray the fused emotional ta...

Lauren Marx’s Interconnectivity of Life: Unforgiving Portrayals of Nature

Lee Tudor

July 6, 2017

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There is an elegant simplicity to the universe: we live and we die; energy inhibits a form, leaves it and takes on another form. This is because all things are made up of the same twelve (known) building blocks of nature and affected by the same fundamenta...

Scott Radke: Sculpting the Shadowlands

Kylie Dexter

July 5, 2017

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There is a powerful force at work behind the sculptural pieces of artist Scott Radke. Through dark hollows and isolated forest clearings, his characters emerge all gnarly fingered and looking like malignant...

Audrey Kawasaki’s Mural Magic

Jessica Violetta

July 3, 2017

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We know her name, Audrey Kawasaki, queen of the whimsical wood-grained modern nouveau. Her work has been flowing through the world for some time now. It has been embraced by an array of art enthusiasts beca...

Beautiful Bizarre June Art Throbs

Susan Santamauro

July 1, 2017

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At Beautiful Bizarre Magazine we receive hundreds of submissions each week from talented artists from around the world who would like to see their work published in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. From these submissions we select those that we feel best reflec...

Popovy Sisters: A Dollhouse Haunted By Haute Couture

Danai Molocha

June 30, 2017

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The Popovy Sisters, Ekaterina and Elena Popovy, twin sisters from Perm, Russia, have taken doll making into a whole new level. Mesmerized by the charisma of personalities as diverse as Marilyn Monroe and Ma...

Harumi Hironaka: Queen of Attitude

Kylie Dexter

June 27, 2017

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It's difficult to find any piece you don't absolutely love in Harumi Hironaka's body of work. These wild, sensual, tough women invite you to find those wolves that reside in your psyche. Representing streng...

The Artistic Practice of Ania Tomicka

Marie Larkin

June 26, 2017

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I have followed Italian Lowbrow artist, Ania Tomicka for a number of years and developed a deep admiration not only for her artwork, but also her artistic practice. Ania, interviewed by Allie Schaitel for Beautiful Bizarre Magazine in 2016, has been steadily b...

Chiara Bautista: Drawing with Stardust

Kylie Dexter

June 24, 2017

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We featured an interview with Chiara Bautista in 2014, but who could help wanting to write about such a talented artist again and perhaps share some of her new works or some you may not have seen to date. I cou...

Capable Hands: The Sculptures of Jessica Dalva

Jennifer Susan Jones

June 23, 2017

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“Will someone please call a surgeon Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart That you're deserting for better company?” – lyric from “Nothing Better” by The Postal Service Jessica Dalva, AKA J...

Fin DAC TAKES OVER Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

Kylie Dexter

June 19, 2017

ART, LATEST POSTS, TAKE OVER

Every month, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine chooses one of our favourite artists to TAKE OVER our social media for the day. Just in case you missed it, below we present the full TAKE OVER from our June artist, Fin DAC. Fin DAC is one of the world's most recog...

The Cinematic Narrative Portraiture of Jonathan Viner

Lee Tudor

June 15, 2017

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Jonathan Viner is an American painter based in Brooklyn, NY. Viner's work drew me in from his contribution to 'Lush Life': Reverie at Roq La Rue and later in the 10th Anniversary Exhibition at Corey Helford Gal...

Out of the Ruins: Monumental Nobodies by Matthew Quick

Freddy Grant

June 14, 2017

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For Matthew Quick, watching the most symbolic and memorable moment of the Iraq War was a moment of clarity. As US soldiers seized Baghdad and triumphantly pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein, he ponder...

New Album ‘Altars’: Interview with Sadistik and Michael Hussar

Jennifer Gori

June 13, 2017

ART, INTERVIEWS, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

In a world where, unfortunately, art has become fast food for soul, we cannot but rejoice when we stumble upon artistic projects that lead to deeper conversations. It is the case with the unexpected collaboration between rapper Sadistik and painter Michael Hus...

Adipocere: The Dark Side of Hand Embroidery

Danai Molocha

June 6, 2017

ART, LATEST POSTS

Sheep, skulls, and spider webs... mountain laurels, moths and dog-strangling vine: Earth's beautiful, curious things find their way into Adipocere's hand embroidery, putting a deviant 21st-century spin on a wel...

Interview with Daan Noppen: Where Substance and Ethers Converge

Kristy Senko-Hall

June 5, 2017

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The innovations of Daan Noppen bring a curious new charge to the art of pencil drawing. His still life and portrait drawings are not only astonishingly detailed, but are scaled to an enormous size. Breathing li...