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Ben Sack’s Large-Scale Drawings of Sprawling Mega-Cities

Ben Sack's drawings posit his viewers above sprawling megalopolises. As we gaze down, thousands of buildings appear to go on for miles: Sack painstakingly renders each detail with pen and ink. Judging by the time lapse videos he posts of his pieces, he seems to draw them freestyle without much pre-planning. The process video of his recent piece, Chronoglyph (pictured above), reveals Sack filling in loosely sketched circles with elaborate line work. With each drawing standing close to human height, Sack's work invites viewers to get lost in the many nooks and crannies of his fantasy cities.

Ben Sack’s drawings posit his viewers above sprawling megalopolises. As we gaze down, thousands of buildings appear to go on for miles: Sack painstakingly renders each detail with pen and ink. Judging by the time lapse videos he posts of his pieces, he seems to draw them freestyle without much pre-planning. The process video of his recent piece, Chronoglyph (pictured above), reveals Sack filling in loosely sketched circles with elaborate line work. With each drawing standing close to human height, Sack’s work invites viewers to get lost in the many nooks and crannies of his fantasy cities.

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anatomy, Aurel Schmidt, Black Drawings, drawing, Fruits

June 4, 2014

Without all of the clothes and the accessories of the modern Homo sapiens, human anatomy alone is quite strange and our smug arrogance, rather misplaced. Visualize a baby kitten next to a human infant, and you’ll see how oafish we must appear to surrounding species. New York-based artist Aurel Schmidt goes a step further to highlight our physical oddities by comparing human body parts to not even others mammals, but vegetation, in her collections of drawings titled “Fruits” and "Black Drawings."

Kevin Cyr Documents Working-Class Vehicles in ‘Labor Day’

drawing, Kevin Cyr, painting

September 11, 2017

In a new collection of paintings and drawings, Kevin Cyr pays tribute to the working class via worn vehicles spotted and documented around New York City. “Labor Day” at Jonathan Levine Projects in New Jersey progresses the artist’s love affair with the concept of what vehicles say about the people who drive them. Cyr first appeared in the pages of this magazine in Hi-Fructose Vol. 10, and he’s part of the “Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose” exhibit, currently at Crocker Art Museum.

The Recent Illustrations of Elif Varol Ergen

drawing, Elif Varol Ergen, illustration

April 15, 2019

In the recent illustrations of Elif Varol Ergen, the artist dives further into the mystical with her feminine heroes and creatures, her own myths and contemporary lessons emerging. Since she was last featured on HiFructose.com (here), she released her first print publication, “A Sequence of Witches,” through Von Zos. The artist was also featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 19.

Frank Magnotta’s Playful, Highly Detailed Graphite Drawings

drawing, Frank Magnotta

December 2, 2014

New York illustrator Frank Magnotta's hyperactive graphite drawings brim with visual onomatopoeias. Intricate block letters connect the complex mechanical parts of surreal structures, which, like Rube Goldberg machines, appear too cumbersome to be functional. The textual elements of his work evoke advertising and design, but the slogans he chooses send conflicting messages that bombard the viewer with information. Magnotta's portrait work is similarly Frankenstein-esque. Each of his dense, grayscale drawings stitches together a variety of elements that the viewer must pick apart to fully understand the contents of each image.

Ben Sack’s Large-Scale Drawings of Sprawling Mega-Cities

Aurel Schmidt’s Drawings Fuse Human Body Parts With Plants

Kevin Cyr Documents Working-Class Vehicles in ‘Labor Day’

The Recent Illustrations of Elif Varol Ergen

Frank Magnotta’s Playful, Highly Detailed Graphite Drawings

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