The Recent, Striking Scenes of Amandine Urruty

Armed with charcoal and graphite, Amandine Urruty continues to craft scenes packed with characters and surprises in every corner. In recent works, the artist’s Victorian sensibility gorgeously renders both human and pop-cultural figures alike. Urruty was featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 44.

“As she masters techniques of traditional drawing, Amandine Urruty offers a charming gallery of deviant portraits, associating grotesque outfits with baroque decorum which miraculously reconcile lovers of alchemistic symbolism to young ladies with too much make up,” a recent statement says. “Indeed, Amandine Urruty builds her images like we would wander in the alleys of a Sunday fee market, borrowing to the mass of objects and their second hand toys their fundamental ambivalence, being wicked and peaceful, decorative and saturated at the same time.”

See more of her recent work below.

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Amandine Urruty, Charcoal, graphite

Bird and flower painting, Chinese Painting, graphite, oil painting, Vanessa Foley

July 29, 2015

Attention all artists! In partnership with our friends at Squarespace, Hi-Fructose will be highlighting five artists who are currently using Squarespace for their website or portfolio, to be featured on HiFructose.com. This week we are featuring Newcastle, England based artist Vanessa Foley, who expresses an affinity for wildlife in her realistic portraits of animals. She grew up in the Northumberland countryside surrounded by nature which left a lasting impression on her. In her artist statement, she writes, "My love of nature and art are inseparable, and I could never imagine one without the other."

Anna Park’s Startling Charcoal Drawings

Anna Park, Charcoal, drawing

April 23, 2019

Anna Park’s charcoal drawings are kinetic and absorbing, each scene embedded in crowd activity. The action seems to move between revelry and violence, the faces of her subjects distorted and disappearing. The artist also integrates varying sensibilities into these works and moves between cartoonish and realistic rendering.

Matt Gordon’s Strange, Frolicking Characters

acrylic, graphite, Matt Gordon

November 11, 2016

Matt Gordon is a mixed-media artist based in Plymouth, Mich., where he crafts both surreal acrylic paintings and graphite drawings. In these images, skeleton characters, bat-human hybrids, and other creatures interact and frolic in different scenarios. Or, as the artist puts it, his works in both mediums "take place in the same dreamy world of happier times."

Nicola Alessandrini’s Unsettling Graphite Drawings

drawing, graphite, Nicola Alessandrini

November 3, 2018

Using just a pencil and paper, Nicola Alessandrini crafts striking, surreal imagery that explore the subconscious. The Italy-born artist creates scenes in which intimate figures are unraveled, producing strange growths and stripped of their normal defenses. Gender and sexuality also often play a role in Alessandrini’s works, as well as totems from childhood.

The Recent, Striking Scenes of Amandine Urruty

Hi-Fructose and Squarespace Present Vanessa Foley’s Portraits of Birds

Anna Park’s Startling Charcoal Drawings

Matt Gordon’s Strange, Frolicking Characters

Nicola Alessandrini’s Unsettling Graphite Drawings

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