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Kwang-Ho Lee’s Hyperrealist Paintings of Quirky Cacti

One of South Korea's eminent realist painters, Kwang-Ho Lee's "Touch" series brings out the tactile qualities of exotic cacti. The desert plants blossom in oblong shapes in Lee's large-scale works, inviting viewers to examine their thorns, fluff, and smooth skin. Some coiled and others upright and phallic-looking, each plant takes on its own personality. Lee's paintings are easy to mistake for photographs at a first glance, but his stylized compositions take his work beyond straightforward documentation.

One of South Korea’s eminent realist painters, Kwang-Ho Lee’s “Touch” series brings out the tactile qualities of exotic cacti. The desert plants blossom in oblong shapes in Lee’s large-scale works, inviting viewers to examine their thorns, fluff, and smooth skin. Some coiled and others upright and phallic-looking, each plant takes on its own personality. Lee’s paintings are easy to mistake for photographs at a first glance, but his stylized compositions take his work beyond straightforward documentation.

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intervention, Joaquin Jara, painting, sculpture

September 9, 2014

Joaquin Jara is versatile. Born in Barcelona, he studied art at La Llotja, in Barcelona, and the Camberwell College of Arts in London. He finished neither. Why should he? He knew precisely what he was doing.

Will Cotton’s New Confectionary Paintings of Cotton Candy Skies

painting, Will Cotton

November 21, 2014

Will Cotton's paintings take the viewer into confectionary, celestial wonderlands where voluptuous cumulous clouds are made of cotton candy. The New York-based artist asks his viewers to suspend disbelief and enter his sweet, sticky paradise populated by model-esque women. In this land of milk and honey, cake decorations and macaroons constitute proper dress code. His human subjects, however, often stare off into the distance with melancholy expressions, suggesting that this dreamworld may not be as idyllic as it seems at first glance.

Pedro Varela Paints a Dreamlike, Tropical Universe

drawing, painting, Pedro Varela

August 12, 2016

The tropical worlds of Pedro Varela (b. 1981 in Niterói, Brazil) look like they belong in a psychedelic dream or the pages of a storybook. And while the artist's style builds on fairytale imagery and fantasy, his works also engage with history -- namely, the 17th to 19th century "artist-scientists" who rendered an exotic vision of Tropical Paradise and the "New World" in their travels to Brazil. Blending Baroque still life, colonial iconography, and modern styles such as Neo-concretism, Varela engages with the past to create his own version of "paradise" that is at once alluring and cautionary.

Revisiting Bedroom Views by Karen Ann Myers

Karen Ann Myers, painting, Realism

June 28, 2016

Based in Charleston, South Carolina, painter Karen Ann Myers uses the bedroom as the backdrop to each of her works, both idealizing the space and offering vulnerability and strength with each subject. Specifically, the bed used as reference in each piece belongs to Myers, while the rooms are retrofitted with new styles, adored objects, and context. The result is a singular personality, with her own elegance and character.

Kwang-Ho Lee’s Hyperrealist Paintings of Quirky Cacti

Joaquin Jara’s Sculptures and Paintings Experiment with Process of Decay

Will Cotton’s New Confectionary Paintings of Cotton Candy Skies

Pedro Varela Paints a Dreamlike, Tropical Universe

Revisiting Bedroom Views by Karen Ann Myers

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