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Interview: Hell is Empty, All the Demons are with Jim Pavelec

August 14, 2018

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My fascination with demonology started during teenage years, when discovering the sculptures of the cathedrals and the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. As I was also a bookworm, I finally stumbled on the Ars Goet...

Angus McDonald: The Striking Stillness of Being

Christopher R. Inwood

August 6, 2018

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Angus McDonald's paintings capture the ever-escaping march of light. His works seem to freeze the world around his subject. This depiction may be an attempt to render the illusiveness of light and the beauty th...

Painting with Blasphemy: An Interview with Carrie Ann Baade

Selena Chambers

July 24, 2018

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While the idea of blasphemy is usually tied to religion, it can also be applied to long-held traditions that society also holds sacrosanct. In the paintings of Carrie Ann Baade, blasphemy is used alongside brushes and oils as another tool to deconstruct the We...

The Modern Japanese Muses of Ikenaga Yasunari

Lee Tudor

July 23, 2018

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“Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens, spike topped walls and treble-bolted doors Gulls alig...

Monica Rohan’s Suffocating Warmth of Anxiety

Christopher R. Inwood

July 16, 2018

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Monica Rohan’s paintings are suffocatingly beautiful. When you first look at Rohan’s work, you are immediately struck by the vibrancy of the colours. Your eyes frantically search across the tangle of intricate...

Teagan White, A Voice for the Animal World

Jessica Violetta

July 7, 2018

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Teagan White is an artist from Minnesota, where winters are long yet nature is still seemingly bountiful. She graces us with celebratory water-based paintings that honor the lives and deaths of animals. Instead of the ever present human figure, Teagan uses nat...

The Philosophical Art of Chameleons: Body Paintings by Emma Hack

Jennifer Gori

July 3, 2018

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Artists have always enjoyed giving their own twist on reality to trigger the imagination and dreams of their public. But some artists even go further, by hacking reality, with a lot of wit. The word of hacking ...

Kathrin Longhurst: The Protagonist Is Female

Angela Unsworth

July 2, 2018

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Aptly named, Protagonist, Kathrin Longhurst’s recent solo exhibition at Nanda\Hobbs Gallery, portrays how women are becoming the powerful, empowered protagonists of their own futures. “When I’m old, I want to ...

In the studio I am a god: an interview with F. Scott Hess

Richard Purssey

June 28, 2018

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American painter F. Scott Hess has had a long and distinguished career as a representational figurative artist, carrying the banner for this often-belittled (by the fine art establishment) art form long before Beautiful Bizarre Magazine came into being. Now an...

Kit Mizeres’ ‘Farewell Transmission’ @ Arch Enemy Arts

Danijela Krha Purssey

June 27, 2018

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Kit Mizeres' new body of work 'Farewell Transmission' is like a vividly beautiful and bizarre dream - a dream we should all heed! I can relate to Kit's feelings of anxiety around the value of her work, and how ...

Curiouser and Curiouser: An Interview with Ipek Ergen

Kylie Dexter

June 19, 2018

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Writing is always the first step of my work, I don’t start with shapes or colours, I start with words, later sketch the story and finally, tell it on canvas. Ipek Ergen is living the artist's life, spendin...

Poets & Artists: Painting the Figure Now @ Wausau Museum Of Contemporary Art

Richard Purssey

June 8, 2018

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In case you have been transported from a different universe, let me tell you something about Beautiful Bizarre Magazine ~ we love the figure! Figurative art is at the heart of our aesthetic, and we are always overjoyed to see and promote this art oeuvre at eve...

Laura Castellanos and the Alienbots

Marie Larkin

May 31, 2018

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“In a world of junkyards, spare parts, and smog, live the Alienbots. They exist at the bottom of the societal pyramid. The workers. The trash collectors. The slaves. The vast majority of Alienbots can barely ca...

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

Matt Mitchell

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...

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...

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, associating them with the darkest forces. Witches, priestes...

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, a...

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 ...

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