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Frieze New York, 2018: Looking For Love In The High End Art Market

May 30, 2018

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Each spring Frieze Week comes to New York and whips the art scene into a frenzy. Nearly 200 galleries gather at the Frieze art fair itself, hundreds more congregate in the fairs that have sprung up around it, a...

Rebecca Leveille TAKES OVER Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

Caitlyn Gregson

May 25, 2018

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Every month, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine chooses one of our favourite artists to TAKE OVER our social media for the day. This month we chose Rebecca Leveille to share with us the artists who have inspired her th...

The Little Things: An Interview with Matt Dangler

Jennifer Susan Jones

May 22, 2018

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By exhibiting his wondrously mystical paintings for over ten years, Matt Dangler has given us countless glimpses into magical worlds that teem with cute and creepy creatures that float and flop the gamut of his beautiful mind. Matt paints with an impeccabl...

The Tattoo Art of Maija Arminen

Marie Larkin

May 21, 2018

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It is widely accepted that tattoo is now considered to be an art form. Many tattooists are accomplished artists, producing outstanding drawings and paintings and they deftly transfer their skills from paper and...

Marie Larkin TAKES OVER Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

Caitlyn Gregson

May 14, 2018

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Every month, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine chooses one of our favourite artists to TAKE OVER our social media for the day. Last month we chose Marie Larkin to share with us the artists who have inspired her throug...

A note from the Editor: 2018 the year of gratitude

Danijela Krha Purssey

May 10, 2018

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Dear beautiful and bizarre friends, I recently promised to write to you more often about my personal journey as Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. I will admit I am finding it challenging to put myself out there, I have always pre...

Walking Through The September Wildflowers With Ruth Speer

Jessica Violetta

May 7, 2018

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I met Ruth Speer last summer at the opening of “Flower Child”, a group show at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco that we both had pieces in. Her painting “Alles Zu Seiner Zeit” caught my eye immediately and ...

Flirt With The Afterlife: The Sensual Art Of Tom Bagshaw

Jennifer Gori

May 4, 2018

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For centuries, the link between womanhood and the spiritual world has always been really narrow. Despite their power to give life, women seem to perfectly embody the two concepts of Eros and Thanatos, associati...

Kinetic Energy: An Interview with J Louis

Bella Harris

May 1, 2018

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The work of J Louis is nothing short of beautiful, but his subjects convey more than just beauty... as all strong women do. The figurative variances seen through strength of character, form, emotion, texture, and color create an atmospheric balance that works ...

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize: Jury Panel Announced

Danijela Krha Purssey

April 24, 2018

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We are thrilled to announce the Jury Panel for The Inaugural Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Prize, made up of the Co-Founders of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Danijela Krha Purssey and Richard Purssey, the Directo...

Victoria Selbach: Painting With Emotional Layers

Nicole Gordon

April 24, 2018

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Victoria Selbach is a contemporary artist based in New York that caught my eye a few years ago due to her life size nude paintings and the powerful nature they embodied. There is a definite sense of femininity ...

Interview: Get Nature Under Your Skin With Tattooist Samantha Mancino

Jennifer Gori

April 17, 2018

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The more human society alienates itself from nature, the more individuals are finding ways to reconnect. Surrounding yourself with art inspired by vegetation and animals is one step. Inserting it inside your body is a whole another level. Samantha Mancino is a...

‘Revealing the Unseen’ an Interview with Marc Scheff

Kylie Dexter

April 2, 2018

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We can’t fully extricate ourselves from external factors, like what anyone else does or thinks, or internal ones, like fear, jealousy, rage, and desire. We all do act from these places, whether we choose to fac...

Lori Nelson TAKES OVER Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

Caitlyn Gregson

March 30, 2018

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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 March artist, Lor...

Ivan Alifan: Textural Bliss

Nicole Gordon

March 27, 2018

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Ivan Alifan caught my attention years ago with his sensual artwork that still managed to make me feel comfortable looking at. Sometimes erotic art causes me to have a feeling of discomfort yet Ivan's drew me in with his many layers of texture that I actually f...

Raising Awareness From Rainbows: The Art of Janne Kearney

Kylie Dexter

March 22, 2018

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“By appearing in the London Portrait Gallery, I am flying the flag not only for Australia, but for older female artists, those without the right connections and who don't have a formalised fine arts background ...

Stickymonger: The Black Vinyl Master

Nicole Gordon

March 17, 2018

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Stickymonger is a New York based artist who creates larger than life installations using black vinyl "stickers" and breathes life into them with meticulous precision. Sticky, as she is called by friends, was d...

Qing Han | Qinni: Life Is a Winking Light in the Darkness

Lee Tudor

March 15, 2018

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With the stroke of her brush, Qing Han's young girl breathes life into an empty night sky. But when one of her creations causes a momentary lapse of concentration, a race ensues to save her creation and the village below. For me, this whimsical short by Q...

Transcending Reality: An Interview with Stuart Holland

Kylie Dexter

March 13, 2018

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Stuart Holland is harnessing every moment of his journey, both in life and with his incredible drawings and paintings. There is so much more to this artist and as you can garner from his answers, there is a lot...

Evolution, Myth and the Future of Our World: Mark Heine’s Extraordinary Sirens

Natalia Joruk

March 7, 2018

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It may begin as a bedtime fable, or perhaps a sketch that yearns to not be forgotten. A room becomes a village or a symbol, a crest - before you know it, a seed of creation has sprouted into a New World of cult...

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