The 73rd Volume of Hi-Fructose is here.
This issue features a plethora of issue exclusive articles, printed on fine art papers, HF 73 features a cover feature on Chet Zar, Amy Sherald’s American Sublime, the cardboard installations of NONAMEY, surrealistic painter Benjamin Spiers, the glitch filled landscapes of Alexis Mata, Marylou Faure’s brightly colored world, the deeply personal work of painter Celine Ducrot, the imaginative sculpted creatures of Brett Douglas Hunter, a 16 page Special Insert Section on the work of outsider artist Stefan Blanquet, Plus a review of the new monograph of punk photographer Murray Bowles!
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Hi-Fructose is a quarterly print art magazine founded by artists Attaboy and Annie Owens in 2005. Hi-Fructose focuses squarely on the art which transcends genre and trend, assuring readers thorough coverage and content that is informative and original. Hi-Fructose showcases an amalgamation of new contemporary, emerging as well distinguished artists, with a spotlight on awe inspiring spectacles from round the world.
Pop Surrealist painter Jennybird Alcantara is one of the artists whose work will be presented at the 2025 Hi-Fructose Invitational. Here is a studio visit from our archives. You can see the entire video (in beautiful widescreen the way that it was meant to be seen) by Kamio Media on our U Tūb channel. The opening will be on June 13th at @roqlarue in Seattle.
@jennybirdart
Pop Surrealist painter Jennybird Alcantara is one of the artists whose work will be presented at the 2025 Hi-Fructose Invitational. Here is a studio visit from our archives. You can see the entire video (in beautiful widescreen the way that it was meant to be seen) by Kamio Media on our U Tūb channel. The opening will be on June 13th at @roqlarue in Seattle.
@jennybirdart
Drawing in progress by Dolce Poganne
@dolce_paganne
The oil paintings of Chie Yoshii are brilliantly presented in the new Dreams book, published by anti-mogul Long Gone John of @sympathyrecords
Exploring themes of beauty, fantasy and animals infused mythology, the book is an escapist getaway in book form; complete with black gilded edges, and the occasional pretty pretty unicorn emerging from a dark dreamscape.
Or as @kirsten_h_anderson writes in the book’s introduction: “In an overpoweringly turbulent contemporary world, with everything from alarming political news, global catastrophes, salacious entertainment, and competitive and cynical art worlds, there is a much needed call for the concept of sanctuary, of a gentle earnest devotion to sheer beauty and the restful place that such imagery holds for the viewer, Chie Yoshii’s luminous paintings create such visual sanctuaries’l
If that describes your current situation, this monograph may be the moisturing salve for your dried up and crumbling state of mind.
@chieyoshiiart
The oil paintings of Chie Yoshii are brilliantly presented in the new Dreams book, published by anti-mogul Long Gone John of @sympathyrecords
Exploring themes of beauty, fantasy and animals infused mythology, the book is an escapist getaway in book form; complete with black gilded edges, and the occasional pretty pretty unicorn emerging from a dark dreamscape.
Or as @kirsten_h_anderson writes in the book’s introduction: “In an overpoweringly turbulent contemporary world, with everything from alarming political news, global catastrophes, salacious entertainment, and competitive and cynical art worlds, there is a much needed call for the concept of sanctuary, of a gentle earnest devotion to sheer beauty and the restful place that such imagery holds for the viewer, Chie Yoshii’s luminous paintings create such visual sanctuaries’l
If that describes your current situation, this monograph may be the moisturing salve for your dried up and crumbling state of mind.
@chieyoshiiart
Hi-Fructose 64 features a 16 page book printed on sketchbook paper inserted in the center featuring the art of Raymond Lemstra.
The artist discusses his unusual approach, combining unlikely shapes with his portraits.
“Some circles or squares, they convey a certain kind of emotional expression if you put them in the context of a face. In your mind, you can kind of play with it. In reality, it doesn’t always work out the same, so you play with these shapes and try to find a balance.”
We still have a few stacks of this back issue if you want to score one for your art library.
@raymondlemstra
Hi-Fructose 64 features a 16 page book printed on sketchbook paper inserted in the center featuring the art of Raymond Lemstra.
The artist discusses his unusual approach, combining unlikely shapes with his portraits.
“Some circles or squares, they convey a certain kind of emotional expression if you put them in the context of a face. In your mind, you can kind of play with it. In reality, it doesn’t always work out the same, so you play with these shapes and try to find a balance.”
We still have a few stacks of this back issue if you want to score one for your art library.
@raymondlemstra
Pop culture hybrid tributes have existed since the 60s, in the 80s (Barbie was a frequent go-to target), then went rampant in the art world in the early 2000s. Back then, tribute themed shows happened nearly every week somewhere in the more retail friendly art world (predominantly in Los Angeles).
This kind of art can be a visual snack of a guilty pleasure (or an easy way for people to throw art up on Red Bubble and attempt to get merch money before the site is forced to take the designs down).
We see a ton of this kind of art, and delve into it only sporadically, but every once in awhile something stands out, like @nippashichan‘s take on the Simpsons. Here, our favorite animated dysfunctional family collides with art history master works, and in a way that’s so care free and rudimentary, yet strange. It’s both weird and adorable.
Slide to see the artist’s Simpsonian take on masterworks by Jan Van Eyck, Dali, Goya, Klimt and more. Can you guess them all?
Pop culture hybrid tributes have existed since the 60s, in the 80s (Barbie was a frequent go-to target), then went rampant in the art world in the early 2000s. Back then, tribute themed shows happened nearly every week somewhere in the more retail friendly art world (predominantly in Los Angeles).
This kind of art can be a visual snack of a guilty pleasure (or an easy way for people to throw art up on Red Bubble and attempt to get merch money before the site is forced to take the designs down).
We see a ton of this kind of art, and delve into it only sporadically, but every once in awhile something stands out, like @nippashichan‘s take on the Simpsons. Here, our favorite animated dysfunctional family collides with art history master works, and in a way that’s so care free and rudimentary, yet strange. It’s both weird and adorable.
Slide to see the artist’s Simpsonian take on masterworks by Jan Van Eyck, Dali, Goya, Klimt and more. Can you guess them all?
Mixed media work
by @anyarin.ice
When the sculpture’s expression matches what you are doing to it..
Work in progress by Gabriel Giunta
@gabrielgiunta
When the sculpture’s expression matches what you are doing to it..
Work in progress by Gabriel Giunta
@gabrielgiunta
Not all puppet parades are the same.
Carnevale 2025
Via @carnevaliditalia Inizia così il Carnevale ❤️
@carnevaleviareggio
#carnevalediviareggio #carnevaliditalia #carnevale2025
Not all puppet parades are the same.
Carnevale 2025
Via @carnevaliditalia Inizia così il Carnevale ❤️
@carnevaleviareggio
#carnevalediviareggio #carnevaliditalia #carnevale2025
