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 ...
Exploring the depths of Darkness: An interview with Chad Wehrle
Not just for the Halloween season, Chad Wehrle has been creating dark and mischievous artwork drawing on elements of sci-fi, horror and even children'...
Jasmine Becket-Griffith’s Strangeling World: Interview
There's magical place where gothic fairies run wild in striped tights, colorful witches and Disney villains enchant you, and mermaids shimmer in s...
Roger Ballen: Raw & Real | Interview
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...
Karin Lijnes: Unsettling the Binaries
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...
Interview: Aunia Kahn, Lowbrow Renaissance Woman
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" exhibiti...