Yosuke Ueno: Interview
Yosuke Ueno is a self-taught painter who has been creating, drawing, and painting original characters ever since he was a young child. Even though his interest in art was not well-received by his parents, and e...
Erik Jones’ ‘Motion’ @ Hashimoto Contemporary
Erik Jones' debut solo exhibition, 'Motion' opens on 5 July at Hashimoto Contemporary and is on show until 21 July. Jones’ unique blend of form and abstraction are inspired by contemporary non-representational...
Del Kathryn Barton: Life Blood
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough”. William Blake, Proverbs of Hell. Full Disclosure; Writing about Australian artist,...
Ernesto Artillo – Breaking the 4th Wall
Ernesto Artillo's collages merge fashion, culture and art to create works that reside in both the now and the forever. Fashion and art have been playful bedmates long before the modernists painted their reality...
Joshua Ellenberg: Interview
Joshua Ellenberg is a talented artist from Melbourne, Australia whose style is a blend of surrealism, expressionism and pop. I caught up with him and asked what influences and inspires his brilliant work. Y...
Kazuki Takamatsu: Exhibition + Interview
Kazuki Takamatsu's solo exhibition 'Spiral of Emotions' consists of twelve new paintings and is currently showing at Corey Helford Gallery (CHG Circa in Culver City, Los Angeles) from June 21 - July 12, 2014. ...
MONA – your reason to travel to the edge of the world
How to describe a visit to the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)? Well for a start “visit” does not begin to encompass the whole of this journey, the emotional and visual impact of the location, the architecture...
Interview with Resa Rot: Photography can be therapy
We meet on a hot Sunday afternoon. Usually shy Resa Rot, photographer of intense black & white pictures of the human soul, has a lemonade with fresh mint in front of her. It is the closing date of her first...
Pat Brassington Strangely Surreal Photo Art
Tasmanian artist Pat Brassington is one of Australia’s most highly esteemed contemporary artists working in photo-media. Her practice, informed by surrealism examines the effect ambiguity has on interpretation...
The Elaborate Pen & Ink Drawings of Lucy Hardie
Lucy Hardie is an Australian artist specialising in fine pen and ink drawings. Represented by Port Jackson Press Australia, she holds a Bachelor of Illustration from the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE, an...
Melancholy Menagerie @ Fullerton Museum Center
Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Kelly Chidester, the curator of Melancholy Menagerie - a Big Eyes Art exhibition that's currently showing at Fullerton Museum Center (California, USA). The exhibition is ...
The Castles of My Mind & The Fourth World @ Arch Enemy Arts
Get ready for a three-dimensional night you won't want to miss, with not one but two sculpture exhibitions, at Arch Enemy Arts! The Castles of My Mind is a solo show for artist Sheri DeBow, featuring a new c...
Nina Y Not – Twisted fairy tales and Nightmarish dreams: Interview
Nina Y Not is one of the most exceptional digital artists/graphic designers to come out of Ireland. Her images entice the viewer to deduce their own interpretation of stories behind each image, twisted fairy t...
Beautiful Nightmares and Phobias by Diana Dihaze
Dark, haunting, and disturbing. Yet, at the same time, beautiful and compelling. Diana Dihaze's images have the power to draw the viewers in, to look past the disturbing aspects of the photographs and figure ou...
Issue 005 | Jun 2014
beautiful.bizarre magazine is proud to announce the June 2014 issue with Aaron Nagel's incredible work on the cover, is out now!
Inside the June 2014 issue: Special Edition
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Erica Calardo: Interview
More than an artist, Erica Calardo has graduate degrees in Philosophy and in Mathematical Logic as well. Just like Leonardo da Vinci, she is a proof that people can tap the full potential of both sides of their...
Maren Esdar and Her Surreal Mixed-Media Collages
There are points where fine art, fashion, and commerce do intersect. And on its crux, there are Maren Esdar's surreal mixed-media collages. Most of her spectacularly glamorous works are commissioned by major pu...
Leilani Bustamante: Painting a State of Transcendence
To look upon the works of New York resident Leilani Bustamante is to enter a world where ritual and resurrection collide with sacred longing. Born in Santa Rosa, California, and graduate of the Academy of Art U...
All We Want is Everything @ Gauntlet Gallery
This Saturday (May 3, 2014 at 7-10pm), Gauntlet Gallery in San Francisco will be presenting a new group exhibition "ALL WE WE WANT IS EVERYTHING" featuring new works by four figurative artists who are on the ve...
Jeffrey Richter: Surreal Charcoal Drawings & Industrial Humanity
Drawing life into his haunting world, Missouri native Jeffrey Richter conveys a sense of melancholic rhapsody through his imaginative work. Having attended various art, printmaking and sculpture classes, Richte...