INTERVIEWS

Portrait of a Shadow: An Interview with Kazuhiro Tsuji

May 7, 2015

You might not yet know the name Kazuhiro Tsuji (Kazu), but you probably know his work. He is the hand behind over twenty-five years of special effects makeup characters that include recent movies such as How Th...

Roger Ballen: Raw & Real | Interview

Richard Purssey

April 29, 2015

ART, INTERVIEWS, PHOTOGRAPHY

It would be no exaggeration to name Roger Ballen as one of the most important and influential photographic artists of the 21st century. Indeed, with a career spanning over four decades, Roger could be considere...

Studio Visit & Interview with Martin Stensaas

E. Scott Bailey

April 28, 2015

ART, INTERVIEWS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Fantasy, Philosophy & Flowing Light Beautiful.bizarre recently paid visionary artist Martin Stensaas a visit at his Salt Lake City studio, and got him to take a break from getting ready for show at the Luminarte Gallery & Bash Contemporary so that w...

The Radiant Photography of Haris Nukem

Allie Schaitel

April 16, 2015

INTERVIEWS, PHOTOGRAPHY

It's undeniable that Haris Nukem's photos are their own brand of cool. These aren't typical glamour shots of cookie-cutter models in pristine settings. Models are sometimes photographed in rooms among strewn cl...

Scott Baker @ Baker Hesseldenz Fine Art Gallery in Tucson, Arizona - An interview with beautiful.bizarre art quarterly

Baker + Hesseldenz Fine Art: An Interview

Miu Vermillion

April 10, 2015

INTERVIEWS

Baker + Hesseldenz Fine Art is an art gallery in Tucson, Arizona known for their well-curated pop-surrealism and new contemporary art exhibitions. The art gallery is located in Tucson's Historic Warehouse Arts ...

An Interview with Portrait Artist Maria Teicher

Allie Schaitel

March 19, 2015

ART, INTERVIEWS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Beautiful.bizarre Magazine had the honor of interviewing Maria Teicher, a fine artist with a focus on detailed portraiture. Maria renders her subjects thoughtfully and intricately while sometimes incorporating dark imagery (plastic, braids, lace veils) to crea...

The Wonderment & Intrigue of John Brophy: Interview

E. Scott Bailey

March 17, 2015

ART, INTERVIEWS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Beautiful.bizarre recently got the chance to sit down with Seattle based painter John Brophy to talk about everything from Jesus Bombs to his friendship with Brian Despain and what it was like to have his very ...

The Dynamic Asthetics of Italia Ruotolo: Interview

Bella Harris

February 28, 2015

ART, INTERVIEWS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Born in Naples, Italian artist Italia Ruotolo's creative voice immerges from her paintings with vibrant fluidity and striking composition. A student of ancient Greek and Latin, she graduated from the Fine Arts ...

Ellen McDermott’s Confluence of Conceptual Art and Photography

Louise Burke

January 23, 2015

ART, INTERVIEWS, PHOTOGRAPHY

“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”- Immanuel Kant, Critique of ...

Into the Mind of Tanya Shatseva: Interview

Natalia Joruk

January 20, 2015

ART, INTERVIEWS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Tanya Shatseva's work grabbed me by the heart from the first time I saw one of her paintings, 'Blue Valentine' (yes, I eventually ended up buying a print - no regrets!). There was something in the way she maneu...

Christian Zucconi: Pretending to be a Stone

Pietro Rotelli

December 19, 2014

ART, INTERVIEWS, SCULPTURE

Born in 1978, Italian artist Christian Zucconi conveys a personal sense of melancholic rapture through the intentional disintegration of his work. Utilizing sculpture, photography, video and performance art, hi...

Interview with Allan Amato – High Priest of the Temple of Art

Decadence Darling

December 12, 2014

ART, INTERVIEWS

The closing exhibition for 2014 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood, California is a grand finale collaboration of fifty-six artists for Temple of Art. A temple is only a building until there is a congregation that has come together with a conscious pur...

Karin Lijnes: Unsettling the Binaries

Orpa Clausen

December 2, 2014

ART, INTERVIEWS, SCULPTURE

The art of Karin Lijnes is not easy to define: ever evolving, her themes shift and flow, floating happily in a sea of duality which she defines as her “South African experience”. She’s worked with every medium ...

Aurore Lephilipponnat: Interview

Pietro Rotelli

November 28, 2014

ART, INTERVIEWS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Born in 1983 in Chartres, France, Aurore Lephilipponnat left the University of Bordeaux in search of adventure and artistic pursuits. Later, after an unexpected move to the Var region of France, Aurore's newfou...

Andrew Spear, Disco Pants, Music and Art: Interview

Susan Santamauro

November 24, 2014

ART, INTERVIEWS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION, STREET ART

I had such a wonderful time interviewing the incredible Andrew Spear. Andrew is a down to earth, humble, straight up, cool dude! He works hard, he plays hard, he lives life with an extreme passion, not only for his artwork, but for music and community projec...

Interview: Brian M Viveros, the man behind the Viveros brand

Danijela Krha Purssey

November 18, 2014

ART, INTERVIEWS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Brian M Viveros is not just a brilliant artist, but a fabulous human being. From my first contact with him in working on beautiful.bizarre Issue 002 Brian embraced our new friendship and engaged himself fully i...

Ines Kozic : Beauty of Traumas and Phobias

Jennifer Gori

November 16, 2014

INTERVIEWS, PHOTOGRAPHY

Overcoming the past, facing the future : two stages in a life that require strength and sometimes the help of art. For Inès Kozic, a 22 years old artist from France and student at the Fine Arts School of Re...

Dean West’s Perfect Dreams

Christine Hogg

November 13, 2014

INTERVIEWS, PHOTOGRAPHY

Dean West's photographs are so conceptually perfected, that they appear as if a hazy dream has been tweaked and sharpened to encompass painterly vision. Inspired by mythology, every image of Fabricate seems like it's the crucial scene of a dark fairytale about...

Samuli Heimonen: between the visible and the unseen world

Marlena Bontas

November 12, 2014

ART, INTERVIEWS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Samuli Heimonen is a 39-year-old Finnish artist who uses symbols and relations between the visible and the unseen world to express the fact that, art can materialize everything once thought impossible. He teach...

Interview: Aunia Kahn, Lowbrow Renaissance Woman

E. Scott Bailey

October 27, 2014

ART, INTERVIEWS

beautiful.bizarre recently got the chance to sit down and talk with artist Aunia Kahn about art, life and being part of the "Rough and Ready" exhibition showing until November 8th at Bash Contemporary Art. . ...

Gabriel Picolo: Comic Book Artist and Professional Doodler

#thisisnotaphotograph: Interview with Arinze Stanley

Magical and Surreal Sculptures: An Interview with Forest Rogers

Pierre Schmidt: Into the Rabbit Hole of A Creative Mind

Image-maker Nick Knight: Capturing AI Innovation in Fashion

Sera Gamble TAKES OVER Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

The Eventual Triumph Over Darkness: An Interview with KERLI

The Photography of Mario Sorrenti: A Democratic Celebration of Beauty

Image-maker Nick Knight: Capturing AI Innovation in Fashion

Raw and Naked: Exclusive Interview with Gina Harrison

The Edgy Couture of Claudia Savage: Interview with Designer Natalie Hutton

Top 100 Wearable Art Designers on Instagram

Fashion, Fetish and Freedom: The Ethical Avante-Garde RITUAL

The Narrative Wearable Art of Breath & Stone

Thrjár: Nordic Influenced Jewelry By Daria Endresen

Lorena Cordero Interview: Stripping Humanity’s Layers

Magical and Surreal Sculptures: An Interview with Forest Rogers

He Paints In Technicolor: An Interview with Erik Jones

Exclusive Interview: The Enchanted Wilds of Juliana Loomer

Portrait of a Shadow: An Interview with Kazuhiro Tsuji

Roger Ballen: Raw & Real | Interview

Studio Visit & Interview with Martin Stensaas

The Radiant Photography of Haris Nukem

Baker + Hesseldenz Fine Art: An Interview

An Interview with Portrait Artist Maria Teicher

The Wonderment & Intrigue of John Brophy: Interview

The Dynamic Asthetics of Italia Ruotolo: Interview

Ellen McDermott’s Confluence of Conceptual Art and Photography

Into the Mind of Tanya Shatseva: Interview

Christian Zucconi: Pretending to be a Stone

Interview with Allan Amato – High Priest of the Temple of Art

Karin Lijnes: Unsettling the Binaries

Aurore Lephilipponnat: Interview

Andrew Spear, Disco Pants, Music and Art: Interview

Interview: Brian M Viveros, the man behind the Viveros brand

Ines Kozic : Beauty of Traumas and Phobias

Dean West’s Perfect Dreams

Samuli Heimonen: between the visible and the unseen world

Interview: Aunia Kahn, Lowbrow Renaissance Woman