The Pure Aesthetic Pleasure of Michael Reeder
Michael Reeder's work is a feast for the eyes. With each look, your eyes get greedier and greedier, sucking in the purest colors, bouncing between the...
The Recognizable Incomprehension of Ben Smith
The works of the Australian painter Ben Smith are unique. The compositions build unique worlds that engage you through a recognizable incomprehension,...
Interview: Hell is Empty, All the Demons are with Jim Pavelec
My fascination with demonology started during teenage years, when discovering the sculptures of the cathedrals and the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. ...
Angus McDonald: The Striking Stillness of Being
Angus McDonald's paintings capture the ever-escaping march of light. His works seem to freeze the world around his subject. This depiction may be an a...
SEED Curated by Yvonne Force at Paul Kasmin Gallery
How to Plant a SEED In art school, in the early nineties, people still threw around the provocation, “How come there are so few great women artists...
Cymbals, Symbols and the Hidden Details: An Interview with Chris Rivers
"I beat the canvas to death when I’m painting, I paint like I play drums! All my work lately has a common theme of big abstract style backgrounds wit...
Monica Rohan’s Suffocating Warmth of Anxiety
Monica Rohan’s paintings are suffocatingly beautiful. When you first look at Rohan’s work, you are immediately struck by the vibrancy of the colours....
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Prize: Check out some of the Great Entries!
Entries to the Inaugural Beautiful Bizarre Magazine's Art Prize have officially closed. We want to sincerely thank all the artists tha...
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...
Kit Mizeres’ ‘Farewell Transmission’ @ Arch Enemy Arts
Kit Mizeres' new body of work 'Farewell Transmission' is like a vividly beautiful and bizarre dream - a dream we should all heed! I can relate to Kit'...
THOMAS ASCOTT – THE ASTRAL WOODS @ ARCH ENEMY ARTS
American painter Thomas Ascott's new body of work 'The Astral Woods' uniquely captures what for most of us is a deeply buried childhood imagination - ...
Walking Through The September Wildflowers With Ruth Speer
I met Ruth Speer last summer at the opening of “Flower Child”, a group show at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco that we both had pieces in. Her pa...
Rise Of The Curly Girls: Interview With Sumner Crenshaw
Battles of the mind are frequently present in the works of artists, albeit often unintentional, subconscious occurrences. In the case of Sumner Crensh...
Menton3’s ‘KATABASIS ll & ‘The Underworld’ Group Exhibit @ Copro Gallery
The works of Menton III have continued to incite furor from his followers with little reprieve in sight. Admittedly, there is something within the sul...
Compelling Stories and Exquisite Deliverance: The Art of Casey Baugh
New York City-based figurative artist Casey Baugh has an uncanny eye for creating intimate, realistic and candid moments in his artwork. Having fo...
The Wide-Eyed Characters of Opal Unicorn’s Laura Castellanos
I was first drawn into the highly imaginative world of wide-eyed, deliciously coloured, crazily exaggerated and stylised characters of Laura Caste...
Kelsey Beckett Honors the Beauty of Cultural Diversity
Until about a year ago, it was hard to find cultural diversity in modern portraiture. A handful of artists were doing it very well and receiving m...
Matt Dangler, Scott Radke, and Brian Mashburn @ Haven Gallery
Haven Gallery (Northport, NY) presents three concurrent solo exhibitions featuring the works of Matt Dangler, Scott Radke, and Brian Mashburn. Rec...
David Palumbo’s RITUAL @ IX Gallery
Imaginative realism can take us to places far beyond our normal realms; we often get a taste of fantastical worlds filled with unusual creatures, ...
The Mesmerizing Figures of Aaron Nagel
Like a dream or an allusion, Aaron Nagel’s exquisitely rendered figurative oil paintings are photo realistic images of his subjects, with one or t...