The 78th 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.
America Dreaming, new work from Mook Simpson, debuts at Copro Gallery this Saturday.
"This one`s from a series where I take classic paintings of cowboys riding bucking broncos, remove the cowboys, and leave the horse floating in space for a moment, unexplained. Then I paint in another force, something swooping down from above to grab, capture, consume, transport, inhale the horse.
I made a short animation to run with the original along with my one. The original shows the cowboy as hero, the bronco as the wild thing that he breaks: man`s will proven against nature. This is how the frontier gets tamed.
Take the cowboy out and the myth stops making sense. What`s left is just a horse, suspended in space and time. That`s the moment I paint into. The thing descending isn`t a cowboy, and it isn`t trying to tame anything. It wants the horse whole. Pure appetite.
"Bronco Tentacle" 2026.
12" x 16". Oil on canvas. Painted on a reproduction of "Bucking Bronco" 1904 by Till Goodan.
@coprogallery
@mooksimpson
For Jihye Park, her oil paintings
serve as a physical and mental sanctuary.
As a South Korean woman living and working in Germany, Park openly embraces her sense of "otherness" describing her recent semi-imagined European landscapes as an intentional exploration of cultural differences, using deeply unfamiliar natural settings to process feelings of distance and strangeness.
@jeehyee_park
“When I’m making my work, I mostly try to come up with something that makes me smile,” said Matthew Grabelsky, “Especially in the beginning when I’m composing something, if it makes me laugh while I’m working on it, I know it’s something I want to do.”
The work has a universal modern-day appeal, Grabelsky says, that gets a reaction not just from the art community, but from most of the people who see the paintings. Our species’ tradition of placing an animal head on a human body, however, dates back thousands of years.
“Mythology is just something I’ve always been drawn to. For me, mythology creates this sense that there’s something under the surface of our minds,” Grabelsky says. “In daily life, you sit on the subway, or in any situation, and there’s so many things going through people’s heads that you’re just not aware of if you’re just sitting there. But it’s there. There might be one hundred people in a car, and everyone has their own particular world they’re living in. Mythology, especially bringing it out the way I do, through the animal heads, is a window into what’s going on in their minds.”
Read the full article on @grabelsky now on Hi-Fructose and see his latest work in person now on view at @thinkspace_art in Los Angeles
Ingeniously simple yet expertly crafted handmade zine by.Leo Mortem @leo.mortem
Rooted in urban rеalism, Marco Tabamo`s mixed-mediа paintings layer striking cоlor and obscured figures to evoke a quiet, melancholic lооk at humаn fragility.
Catch sоme of his work which is currently on view as part of Love, Shame, Trаsh & Beauty—group show, curated by Dio Sumagaysay, highlighting LGBTQ+ artists at BrаssWorks Gаllеry in Portland, OR.
@ma_minkmink
@brassworksgallery
@arteviridea_art_disease
It appears that for painter Almendra Bertoni, custom frames can serves as a magical window rather than a decorative element.
@almendrabertoni
Seamlessly simple, yet complicated animation by McBess, who was last featured on the Hi-Fructose Collected edition 3 book.
@mcbess
There’s a tiny pinocchio in there…
#animation #tattoo #animated
Swedish artist Leo Park, known for blending classical nudes with modern, tattooed iconography, will be part of the Blue Season group show at GR GαIIery NY. Leo was featured in Hi-Fructose Print Issue 74.
@grgallery_ny
@leoparkpictures
