There’s both an absorbing and a grotesque quality to the paintings of Mow Skwoz. Whether in acrylics or watercolors, Skwoz blends realistic skin tones with geometric abstractions and frames. Her cerebral series of “Inner Peace” works, in particular, appear as writhing and distorted characters.
The artist is currently part of the group show Conjoined Vs. Grotesque at Copro Gallery, curated by Chet Zar and Jeremy Wagner and covered on the HF blog here. As a show that celebrated “the Denizens of the Dark,” Skwoz’s stirring “Inner Peace” work feels right at home. See more of Skwoz’s work below.
In what the artist himself calls "homespun faerie tales", 
At first glance, the work of Canadian artist 
At once lush and eerie, Sarah Slappey's oil paintings offer vague limbs and organs against natural environments. Of her distinct visual language, she’s said “I wanted to build a world from the bottom up.” The South Carolina native, now residing in Brooklyn, New York, has recently shown these scenes at venues in New York City and Switzerland.
Russian painter