The 76th Volume of Hi-Fructose is here.
The New
Contemporary
Art Magazine
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.
The viewer of Yuko Shimizu’s illustrations is often hurdled into the visual journey and logic of her illustrations. Be-it space, myth, or surreal fantasia, characters interact with their environments antagonistically or ambivalently. Fluidity of hair and the movement of matter, light, and sound are stylistic staples stitching her work together. Hair tendrils, mops, and swirls. Energy whip around characters like myth and tradition. Waterfalls crash onto a bubbled city. Shimizu says she started drawing water and snow in graduate school, because they were less intimidating than drawing a whole environment. But water takes on another meaning for Shimizu. “I have a severe hydrophobia, and I don’t go into the water that is deeper than my chest. I never learned how to swim, and I have no intentions of doing it.” This fear becomes fascination when incorporating water, snow, and fluid movements into the environments of the characters she draws.
Read Harrison Cook’s full article on the artist, now on Hi-Fructose.
@yukoart
How’s your Monday? Sometimes it takes a village to get through a Monday.
Ps- it also took a village to burn a buncha witches, tho….Uhm, did we mention it was Monday?
Fantastic town/dress by Lauren Marin.
@laurennmarinnn
Narsiso Martinez’ Asparagus picker on strawberry boxes + other works are on view at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery at the University of Michigan through December 19, 2025 @narsisomartinez
There are more than castles left on the beach.
Sand and water sculpture by Théo Mercier
@theomercier_official_
LANDSCRIPT
Saturday mornings feel a bit empty without a bit of animation.
This is from Gaia Alari.
@gaiaesthermaria
Incorporating a mix of objects—everything from old toys to dead bugs to simple paper constructions—Chamberlain builds unusual scenarios that he then depicts in impeccably detailed drawings. “All my work is logical in the sense that everything is there,” says the British artist, who rarely adds anything to a drawing that is not part of the scene that he composed. “Everything works physically in a logical sense, but I hope that it has an air of being unreal or not logical.”
His images are like eerie dreams set in locations that are as familiar as they are foreign. “I guess it gets us to question the world we live in by seeing another world which is slightly alien to that,” he says. “It reflects the world but, at the same time, it’s slightly unreal or slightly illogical. It’s neither here nor there.”
Read the full article on @lewischamberlainart by Liz Ohanesian, now on Hi-Fructose.
Each densely-detailed painting by Asad Faulwell is a colorful adventure story for the eye balls in our skulls. @asadfaulwell
“Premonition”
60”x48”
2024
8-Bit “embroidery” by spray can mural—izing with MishaMack, who is inspired by the folk art of his hometown of Siberia. @mishamack
