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Prudence Flint’s Paintings Capture Moments of repose that are ripe for interruption

The women portrayed in Prudence Flint’s paintings are caught in moments of quiet, reflection, and impermanence. They appear fixed in a moment of repose ripe for interruption. Perhaps they are lying on the grass, or changing an infant’s diaper, or awash in warm water mid-shower. Regardless, there is a certain mood shared among her works. Read the full interview with the artist by clicking above!

Sometimes You Just Have To Hug That Walrus: The Humorously Surreal Paintings of Bruno Pontiroli Twist Our Relationship with the Animal World

“The world I build has no constraint, no logic. Everything is possible,” says Pontiroli. “My objective is to shake our imagination by developing a universe based on the absurd and the senseless.” Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!

Pop Surrealist Todd Schorr Paints the Unusual & The Arcane

Todd Schorr creates weird and ambitious works that feel like fever dreams about death, sex, and a fear that the good times are long gone. Read the full article by clicking above!

Tropical Flavored Nightmare: Sean Norvet’s Paintings Are Reflective Mountains of Disgusting Excess

Sean Norvet has long been described as a Renaissance-inspired satirist, a mish-masher of photorealism and cartoons into goofy–gruesome critiques of consumer culture or social media habits or other twenty-first-century concerns. Read the full article by clicking above..

Justin Lovato & The Atomic Soup of the Natural Universe

“My art has always tried to illustrate the spiritual world leaking into the material world. Two worlds affect and play off each other..." Read the full article on Justin Lovato by clicking above!

Invisible To Most: The Drawings of James Lipnickas

James Lipnickas has used horror tropes for a long time. But his works were once much more linear. That used to mean monsters, aliens, and isolated landscapes that had something haunted about them. A giant worm pouring its effluence into a cabin. A force within exploding the cabin. The horror has changed. Click above to read the full article.

Mitsuru Watanabe Interjects A Modern Perspective Onto Classic Paintings

“When I learned that there was a technique called honkadori, I thought it was interesting,” says Watanabe. “It seemed like an invasion or challenge to the idea of Western art and original works.” Read the full article by clicking above.

Tetsunori Tawaraya’s Fierce & Hypnotizing World Will Air-Fry Your Retinas

You will want to find a way back to the sideways world, the dirty world, the alien world of Tetsunori Tawaraya. Click above!

Amy Sherald’s American Sublime

Once scheduled to be on view at the Smithsonian's National Portrait gallery, Amy Sherald's American Sublime is now on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art after the artist pulled the exhibit, asserting that she could not 'comply with a culture of censorship" Read the full article on the exhibition from our recent issue, after it premiered at the SFMOMA by clicking above!

Macro Verse: The Paintings of Cinta Vidal Allow us To Become Gravity-Defying Voyeurs

Cinta Vidal’s intricate paintings often foster favorable comparisons to graphic prints by M.C. Escher, especially the latter’s impossible constructions. Any similarity is largely incidental: Where Escher revealed the subtle harmonies that unite the incongruent, Vidal reaches for something more intimate and human. Read the full article by clicking above!

Opposing Forces: VICKIE VAINIONPÄÄ PAINTS THE GAP BETWEEN EXPERIENCE & HUMAN PERCEPTION

"I did not always know that I would be making this particular work,” says painter Vickie Vainionpää, “but that’s the beauty of being an artist. To follow your interests, pulling at threads and slowly but surely a path becomes clear.”Read the full article on the artist by clicking above!

A Return To Feeling: The Dynamic & Emotion-Infused Art of KOAK

"Color for me is very much about that initial emotional impact; it is almost like a precursor to the mood of a painting,” says Koak. Read the full article on Koak by clicking above.

The Art of Pissing People Off: Controversial Artist David Cerny Creates Scuptures Full of Defiance & Humor

David Cerný is by all accounts the most famous artist in the Czech Republic. A quick Google search confirms that diagnosis by revealing the byproduct of artistic success: article upon article attempting to pigeonhole him. Read Clayton Schuster's full article on the artist by clicking above!

Another Time, Another Space: The Art and Life of Rammellzee

Rammellzee was a polymath. Shortly following his start in graffiti in the early ‘70s, tagging trains in his hometown, Far Rockaway in Queens, he began developing a theory about life and liberation through controlling letterforms, transforming words and thought into a new kind of warfare against those that use information to control... Read the full article on the artist by clicking above! (photo by Joshua White, courtesy of the Estate of Rammellzee and Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles) Los Angeles)

Lola Gil Distorts Memories With Her Glass Managerie

he glass figurines in Lola Gil’s latest work are essentially still lifes. She owns each one, treasures each one. Holds and manipulates them to understand their qualities, their quirks. She depicts everything about them except her own fingerprints on their surface Read all about Lola Gil by clicking above.

Violently Happy: Hattie Stewart’s Saccharine-Fueled World Is In Your Face & Over The Top.

The realities that Hattie Stewart manifests have a carnival quality—gleaming, trashy fun with a slightly sinister undertone like golden midway tokens that rust and then jingle in your hand like they are laughing at you for believing the gold was real anyway. “Nothing brings me more joy,” Stewart says, “than taking a clean blank page and filling every inch of it with colors and imagined worlds.” Read Clayton Schuster's full article on the artist by clicking above.

Free Form: The Art and Adventures of Erik Parker

Aafter nearly two decades as a professional artist, his work retains an authenticity that many attempt, but few master. Read Clayton Schuster's interview with the artist by clicking above!

It’s About Time: Bisa Butler Reconstructs The Historical Narrative

Whether portraying people of the past or present, of great fame or total anonymity, Bisa Butler brings the viewer face to face with images of dignity and grace. Read Clayton Schuster's article on the artist by clicking above.
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