Nicola Caredda’s dreamlike acrylic paintings blend eroded landscapes and structures, playful bits of pop culture and mystical iconography. Each’s vague narrative appears to be ripped from the subconscious.
“Transcends reality using a dreamy-visionary language … images that blend elements from distant expressive vocabularies,” a statement says. “In his works objects (hang) between the real and the surreal, between physics and metaphysics (and) tell the result of a reality of a vision of the whole inner and subjective. A personal metaphorical language to an alienating result and the same time, a painting that tries to exorcise fear and anguish.”
The Cagliari-born artist studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sassari and “undertook an independent and singular pictorial (path), rather secluded compared to the most popular movements by local artists of his age.” See more of his work below.
In the upcoming show "Dramaholics," Mexican painter José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros takes the taboos of reality and injects them into the idealized world of Disney. The show, running Dec. 6-29 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, offers new acrylic and oil works from the artist. Ontiveros was last featured on HiFructose.com 
In Louie Cordero’s surreal and riveting paintings, the artist’s command of texture and mood sets his work apart. Cordero, hailing from the Philippines, is currently featured in a group show at Gallery Poulsen titled “Inoperative Halo,” along with painter Eric White and sculptor Jud Bergeron. (The show runs through Dec. 21 at the Copenhagen venue.)
Puerto Rican artist