Rob Sato Offers New, Vibrant Works in ‘Arco Iris’

This month, Rob Sato returns to Giant Robot with a new body of work under the title "Arco Iris." These watercolor works tackle the differing significance of rainbows through several lenses. (Sato’s work is part of the upcoming Hi-Fructose Collected 4 box set, here.) The gallery and company says that this new show “marks another radical shift in style for the artist.”

This month, Rob Sato returns to Giant Robot with a new body of work under the title “Arco Iris.” These watercolor works tackle the differing significance of rainbows through several lenses. (Sato’s work is part of the upcoming Hi-Fructose Collected 4 box set, here.) The gallery and company says that this new show “marks another radical shift in style for the artist.”

“These meditative but electrifyingly chromatic paintings are a fresh, expansive continuation of Rob’s established themes of transition and transformation mixed with some keen observations on human behavior made with his characteristic blend of joy, disgust, melancholy and humor,” a statement says.

This show opens on Oct. 21. See more of his new works below.

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Rob Sato, surrealism, Watercolor

Cathy Lu, ceramics, Watercolor

March 9, 2019

Moving between works on paper and ceramics, Cathy Lu explores cultural identity and traditional Chinese art in her work. Many of her pieces contain dozens of young female characters, scaling classical vases and metaphoric lifeforms. The artist offers some insight into what she’s traversing in her work:

Lindsay Stripling Illustrates a Quirky Dreamscape in “Ouroboros”

illustration, Lindsay Stripling, Watercolor

June 2, 2016

San Francisco based artist Lindsay Stripling usually works in watercolor to create her playful illustrations of dreamscapes dotted with simplistic human characters, animals, and objects. But for her new series, exhibiting this week at Flatcolor Gallery in Seattle, Stripling found herself painting in oils after an 8 year break from the medium. "It's my first real adventure with oils in 8 years and it was fun for sure," Stripling says, "trying to carry my looseness from my watercolors into these oil paintings."

J.A.W. Cooper’s Recent, Enchanting Works

illustration, Jaw Cooper, surrealism

November 11, 2017

An ever-present quality in the illustrations and gallery work of J.A.W. Cooper is a blend of seemingly disparate influences. Her surreal pieces often carry a bit of fashion, a dash of fantasy, mythology and the natural world, and often, a bold femininity. The results are enchanting expression of Cooper’s diverse vision. The artist was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

Adrian Cox’s ‘Border Creatures’ Return in New Shows

Adrian Cox, oil painting, surrealism

June 3, 2017

Adrian Cox’s oil paintings capture scenes with his fictional Border Creatures, dwellers of the so-called “Borderlands” and hybrid creatures that blend the flora, fauna, and minerals of their environment. In two new shows, one at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco and the other at Australia’s beinArt Gallery, Cox tells new narratives within this context. Both shows run through most of June. You may remember Cox from this 2015 HiFructose.com piece on the artist.

Rob Sato Offers New, Vibrant Works in ‘Arco Iris’

The Watercolor and Ceramic Explorations of Cathy Lu

Lindsay Stripling Illustrates a Quirky Dreamscape in “Ouroboros”

J.A.W. Cooper’s Recent, Enchanting Works

Adrian Cox’s ‘Border Creatures’ Return in New Shows

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