Rafael Silveira’s surreal world expands in new paintings from the Brazil-based artist. The artist was most recently part of the “Mother & Child” group show at Dorothy Circus Gallery, with the below painting, “Trifacial Mother,” featured. Rafael Silveira Silveira was last featured on HiFructose.com here.
On “Trifacial Mother,” the artist says this: “The protagonist of the female central figure reveals three different faces: in the spectator’s right, the real raw primitive and obscure instinct side; in the left, the artificial persona, or how the woman act in the social theatre and how society seems her. Finally at the center: the mother. A unique, almost supernatural being, made of pure love and powerful enough to create life.”
See more of the painter’s recent work below.
When we try to recall old memories, they usually come back in bit and pieces: faces of loved ones, favorite objects, and sometimes our mind fills in the gaps with things that never were. In painting her own memories, 
Christian Vincent’s paintings carry whimsy and melancholy, the artist playing with light and perspective in scenes from the everyday. Surrealism is typical in Vincent’s work, yet at varying degrees. The overall essence plays into the function of memory and how we fill in details with the perspectives of both then and now.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s affecting mixed-media portraits recently returned in the show "Always Felt, Rarely Seen" at