INTERVIEWS

Interview: Words with Dande and The Lion

February 16, 2018

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The band Dande and The Lion remind me of a close-knit family ringing true to the saying that ‘friends are the family you choose’. I feel very fortunate to have been included in what could only be considered a ...

Interview: Inside The Graceful Cinematic Universe Of Kin Fables

Jennifer Gori

February 13, 2018

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Have you ever woken up one day, and wondered where all the sun, warmth and possible of your childhood have gone? While you’re sipping your morning coffee, full of melancholy and perhaps dejection, you are ponde...

Interview: The Organic ‘Noir&B’ Music of Elle Watson

Jennifer Gori

February 10, 2018

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Based in London, Elle Watson is a rising talent of the music industry and is already having a serious experience in the field. Indeed, she started singing and composing at the age of 14. Favoring emotions over catchy pop music, she creates low-key tracks with ...

Dorielle Caimi Interview: Fleeting Epochs @ Modern Eden Gallery

Bella Harris

February 9, 2018

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Femininity and masculinity, let's erase those words for a moment and look closely at the work of Dorielle Caimi. Think, expression. The visual experience depicted in her narrative becomes even more impressive t...

Colin Christian: Confronting Confrontation

Nicole Gordon

February 8, 2018

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Colin Christian is both an artist and sculptor who is not afraid to push boundaries. Boundaries regarding art, politics, religion, etc. His inspiration is a mix up of pin up girls, supermodels, old sci-fi movie...

Interview: Multidimensional Digital and Street Art by Extra Crunchy

Jennifer Gori

January 27, 2018

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“The world is divided in two – Crunchy and Non Crunchy. Which one are you?” This is the question asked by Extra Crunchy, a couple of artists from Israel with a high color, innovative and multifaceted universe. With a lot of humor and mystery, they states: ...

Artistic Imaginings: An Interview with Pedro Jardim

Bella Harris

January 23, 2018

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Brazilian artist Pedro Jardim captures a distinctive, feral beauty while the expression and subtle color palettes of his subjects create an evocative sense of mystery. A graduate of graphic design at ESPM, Rio ...

Sarah Joncas: Those Haunting Gazes

Nicole Gordon

January 17, 2018

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Sarah Joncas is a Toronto based artist who often depicts inspiration from film noir, biblical references and has a sense of melancholy in her paintings. We have had many wonderful talks with Sarah in the past f...

Rise Of The Curly Girls: Interview With Sumner Crenshaw

Jackie Lemmon

January 16, 2018

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Battles of the mind are frequently present in the works of artists, albeit often unintentional, subconscious occurrences. In the case of Sumner Crenshaw, working through anxiety and depression is a main focus of her oil paintings. Sumner works from her home in...

Mike Dargas: The Hyper-Hyperrealistic Painter

Nicole Gordon

January 13, 2018

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Artist Mike Dargas has caught my eye for years due to his depiction of hyper-realistic portraits of people. At the mere age of eleven, he painted the cathedral square in his hometown of Cologne in both pastel a...

Joe Bloch: Spinal Tap Meets Van Gogh in the NYC Underbelly

Jennifer Susan Jones

January 4, 2018

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Back in high school, acrylic painter Joe Bloch was all about heavy metal music, video games, and, you guessed it, art. This Impression/Expressionistic painter hails from the gritty, urban chaos of NYC which ser...

Interview: Aaron Mcpolin Reveals The Grace of Shibari With Photography

Jennifer Gori

December 21, 2017

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Since its invention, photography has been an incredible tool to document humanity and to get the best insights into global subcultures and countercultures that have fed what we now know as new contemporary art. Aaron McPolin is a fashion and beauty photographe...

Ray Caesar: The Master of Digital Surrealism

Nicole Gordon

December 20, 2017

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Ray Caesar is one of the most articulate men I know. His work is completely unique and the moment you see one of his creatures with their deformities or hybrid bodies, the audience is well aware it is a piece c...

Indiangiver: Cheyenne Randall the Ink Master

Nicole Gordon

December 13, 2017

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Cheyenne Randall, aka Indiangiver, has been adding tattoos to photos for many years. I had one created of me as I love the application and intensity of the added ink. Indiangiver does what he wants, when he wan...

Interview: Ania Tomicka’s ‘Seed of Memory’ @ Arch Enemy Arts

Danijela Krha Purssey

December 6, 2017

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine has had a long relationship with Italian artist Ania Tomicka. She has participated in our curated exhibitions: ‘FEMME TO FEMME FATALE’ @ MODERN EDEN GALLERY and ‘LES PETIT FOURS’ @ FRIENDS OF LEON GALLERY, was featured in Issue 011 o...

Troy Brooks Up Close and Very Personal

Nicole Gordon

November 23, 2017

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Troy Brooks paints these extraordinary elongated women that appear to have all the qualities and nuances of classic femme fatales of the 30's and 40's. Their anatomy is so unique and upon viewing their gaze...

The Visceral Paintings of Laura Castellanos

Marie Larkin

November 18, 2017

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Recently I had the opportunity to view one of Laura Castellanos’ paintings first hand, and my immediate reaction was I wanted to lick it. It was entirely visceral. The colour was so gloriously candied pink,...

Thrive in the Face of Others Emotions: An Interview with Claudia Ducalia

Caitlyn Gregson

November 14, 2017

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Beautiful girls in elegant and unique environments are Claudia Ducalia’s specialty. This painter and tattoo artist has a very distinctive iconography of female faces and bodies that link childhood to adolescence, as they travel from an unconscious cruelty ...

Night Comers: An Interview with Doll Artist Midori Hayashi

Miu Vermillion

November 11, 2017

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From November 7 through November 19, 2017, Vanilla Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) presents Midori Hayashi's solo exhibition: "Night Comers". Many of our readers are familiar with her work. She is one of the artists...

The Surrealist Portrait Painter: Interview with Young Chun

Nicole Gordon

November 9, 2017

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Young Chun was born a minister's son in Seoul Korea and spent time in the chapel creating imaginary friends for company. In 2000, he received his B.F.A. and spent several years painting yet it was not unti...

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