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Interview: Kane Kokaris and an Intriguing Universe of Animals

May 22, 2019

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The art of Kane Kokaris is alluring. Bright, bold colors exist on perfectly clean black backgrounds. This beautiful contrast creates undeniable beauty. Intricate details keep our eyes wandering throughout the ...

Chelsea Gustafsson’s Comfort Kills

Christopher R. Inwood

May 18, 2019

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The Australian painter Chelsea Gustafsson's new work are little nuggets of pleasure. It's the minute little scratches of detail that make the works sing. For her solo show 'Comfort Kills', showing in August at ...

Hayley Welsh: Of Monsters and Zen

Elizah Leigh

May 16, 2019

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For those who gravitate toward the right-brained domain, the frenzied way of today’s world can weigh quite heavily upon our minds and allegorical shoulders. Things are pretty wild out there! We seem to be entrenched in a “mean girls/boys” epoch, as well. Behav...

Nick Sheehy: Spinner of Wilds

Andrea Kovacic

May 4, 2019

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A weird, wonderful world. Through his pop-surrealist art, Nick Sheehy transports us into a realm that feels fantastical in its beauty, as well as in its danger. Frogs take part in dancing rituals. Octopuses bir...

Interview: The Manic, Fetishistic and Dark Surrealism Of Ulorin Vex

Jennifer Gori

May 2, 2019

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You may know Ulorin Vex from her alternative model years, and you certainly may have encountered her illustrations either under the names of Malady Charlotina, Ulorin Vex or her real name, Christiane Shillito. ...

Flying High: Unveiling the Winners of High Art 2019 by the Natural Cannabis Company

Natalia Joruk

April 26, 2019

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2019 has been a year to remember for the Natural Cannabis Company. Having received more entries than ever before from over 100 countries, this year’s High Art competition has blown away the Natural Cannabis Company team. “This year was a nerve-wracking, but in...

Teagan White: A Modern Naturalist

Jacqueline Weinreb

April 25, 2019

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Teagan White is an Oregon based artist, working primarily in gouache and watercolor. Flora and fauna take the main stage of her artwork. She states that her “work is influenced by years of living in the bleak ...

Rebecca Hastings: A Synthetic Valley of Dreams

Christopher R. Inwood

April 23, 2019

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Rebecca Hastings' new series of paintings 'The Eternal Youths' (2018) sets you adrift across a placid calm of bright blue that hazes into an unknown distance. Your slumbering eyes affix upon a synthetic child, ...

Fight Like A Girl: The Digital Art Of Justin Gedak

Jennifer Gori

April 20, 2019

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If you read a lot about artists these days, you will notice a recurring theme: overcoming hardship and finding power in your own wounds. Of course, it is a timeless, universal theme, but nowadays, human beings are not afraid to show their weakness and to use i...

Eleven Masters: Art of the IMC

Matt Mitchell

April 18, 2019

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June approaches and with it comes the IMC. To mark the occasion, we are profiling eleven of the greatest living practitioners of a distinctive tradition of art that lives at the meeting point of the gallery wo...

Moon: The Art of Intricacy

Kim Crowie

April 9, 2019

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It's not often that an artist manages to wear different career hats, successfully, while still creating extraordinary pieces that engage and leave viewers in awe. One of the few who get this fine balance right ...

Interview With Laura Grace: Power of Color

Jackie Lemmon

April 8, 2019

INTERVIEWS, LATEST POSTS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Human eyes are able to see about 360 different colors. The vitality of heightened saturation in art has captured viewers throughout art history. Viewing art that has bright colors is known to affect your mental state in positive ways--and sometimes negative, l...

Interview: Leigh Bongiorno And The Importance Of Portraits In Our Digital Age

Jennifer Gori

April 2, 2019

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In our digital age, we are surrounded with more and more faces than ever. Every social media you open will instantly project selfies and pictures of people, friends or strangers in front of your eyes. But, unfo...

Primal Impulses & Curious Beauty: is 2019 the Year of the Dark Art Movement?

Natalia Joruk

March 28, 2019

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To both repulse and enchant, art can bind you within a paradoxical state of emotion. For some this uneasiness is preferably avoided, yet there are many instances over the centuries which example humanity's lust...

Feminine Ethos: An Interview with Natalia Berglund

Bella Harris

March 26, 2019

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Indeed, there is no shortage of creativity and inspiration when looking upon the mixed media portraiture of Natalia Berglund. There is intensity and empowerment, a pensive sight even while her subject’s vision is often shielded, and a compositional elegance in...

Kazuhiro Hori: Something Is Troubling in The State of Dessert

Jennifer Gori

March 21, 2019

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It can be odd to link the line spoken by Marcellus in Hamlet with the surrealistic, hyper-realistic paintings by Japanese artist Kazuhiro Hori aka Chardin Chardin (a 2018 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Prize Wi...

Facing Dualities: An Interview with Horacio Quiroz

Haley Peters

March 19, 2019

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Horacio Quiroz is a pop surrealist artist who lives in Mexico City, Mexico. Despite working as a Creative Art Director for twelve years, Horacio perpetually was tugged by the pull and craving for visual arts. A...

Breaking Records with High Art 2019

Natalia Joruk

March 19, 2019

ART, COLLAGE, LATEST POSTS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Sometimes, you just need to start the party early. Before this year’s High Art contest is even over, The Natural Cannabis Company is already celebrating. Not only have over 1,800 entries been submitted to them over the past three weeks, but NCC have broken ...

All is illusionary, a dream or a feeling: An Interview with Tanya Shatseva

Natalia Joruk

March 13, 2019

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When I last spoke with Tanya Shatseva back in 2015, she was a young woman exploding onto the art scene, as vibrant and full of life as the paintings she created. Not much has changed on that front; though it’s ...

Drawing on Reality: The Fashion Photography of Miles Aldridge

Sarah Claire Picton

March 12, 2019

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The year is 1964: Dr Martin Luther King, Jr receives the Nobel Peace Prize; Beatlemania travels to the US; Andy Warhol’s Shot Marilyns are produced; Bob Dylan releases 'The Times They Are a-Changin'; and, in Lo...

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