Courtney Brims Interview: Mother Nature of the Art World
A cornucopia of native wildlife. Courtney Brims is an artist who wholly celebrates personal connections to nature, especially within the Australian la...
Interview With Laura Grace: Power of Color
Human eyes are able to see about 360 different colors. The vitality of heightened saturation in art has captured viewers throughout art history. Viewi...
A Dreamy Mood: An Interview with Steve Chmilar
I recently had the honour and pleasure of being on the panel of jurors for the Inaugural Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. In that capacity I was privilege...
Erin Nicholls Interview: The Perpetual Tourist
The work of Australian artist Erin Nicholls is a reflection of an artistic life lived well. From learning Old Masters' oil painting techniques in ...
Kathrin Longhurst: The Protagonist Is Female
Aptly named, Protagonist, Kathrin Longhurst’s recent solo exhibition at Nanda\Hobbs Gallery, portrays how women are becoming the powerful, empowered p...
Mike Dargas: The Hyper-Hyperrealistic Painter
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 ...
Indiangiver: Cheyenne Randall the Ink Master
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 o...
Andreas Englund: Superlife Uncut @ Distinction Gallery
Distinction Gallery (Escondido, CA) presents Andreas Englund's solo exhibition: Superlife Uncut. The exhibition features a number of the artist's ...
Linda Adair Interview + Echoes @ Distinction Gallery
Distinction Gallery presents Linda Adair's very first solo exhibition. Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing the artist about her work, her lif...
Bitter | Sweet: An Interview with Crystal Morey
Visual artist Crystal Morey takes us on a journey with her milk-white, porcelain figures in Entangled Wonders, a series that will be included in the b...
Mary McGill: The Art of the Story
Ceramic artist and native Californian Mary McGill strikes both a symbolic and aesthetic balance between humans and nature, and beauty and time-induced...
Dreamscapes: Interview with Michelle Jardines
Exceptional art has a way of transporting you to another time, another place, even another world. Fictional or real, the possibilities are endles...
The Animal Connection: An Interview With Lydia Fenwick
I first encountered the work of Southern California-based professional illustrator Lydia Fenwick when my husband showed me a 'zine he'd purchased fr...
Jon Jaylo @ Distinction Gallery | California Center for the Arts
Distinction Gallery in collaboration with California Center for the Arts, Escondido presents Jon Jaylo's solo exhibition: ‘All These Answers That ...
Jim McKenzie’s “Lost Magic” @ Copro Gallery
Jim McKenzie welcomes you into his imaginarium, but don't be fooled by the bright colours and soft, welcoming textures. In this world of Lost Magi...
CEXN wearable art: An exclusive Interview with Bartholomäus Wischnewski
For those who use clothing as an avenue to express their art, the creativity involved merits a special appreciation. It stretches the boundaries withi...
Exclusive Interview with A.M.Lorek
I recently had the honour of interviewing Polish artist Agnieszka Lorek, perhaps better known as A.M.Lorek, for Issue 011 of beautiful.bizarre. Lorek'...
Recycling Humanity: Hikari Shimoda @ Corey Helford Gallery
Hikari Shimoda is a Japanese artist who is known for her pop-culture-inspired paintings of youthful characters with mesmerizing eyes. Recently, I had ...
Shallow Grave Studios: The Assemblage & Tattoo Art of Jason Stieva
With Halloween behind us, some of you dark romantics (like myself) may be feeling gloomy about waiting a whole year before the spooks, skeletons, and ...
Jana Brike ‘Anatomy of Innocence’ @ Copro Gallery
"These fragments I have shored against my ruins” T. S. Eliot
For those of you familiar with Jana's work you'll understand its magic seems to pierce ...