Czech-based photographer, Martin Stranka, creates striking images that cross the border between reality and dreams. Set in natural landscapes alongside wild animals, his subjects wander through a make believe world in silent contemplation. Stranka’s masterful use of negative space and atmosphere lends a fantastical feel to his compositions. One...
San Francisco artist, Kim Cogan, paints urban landscapes from around the US with an expressiveness and drama that puts the cities’ genuine personality on display. Opting out of representing the more iconic views of the city, he walks us through alleyways and residential areas less commonly viewed and renders them using heavily textured...
Marco Stefanucci paints haunting portraits and figures in monochrome tones. In his latest series, titled Metamorphóō, Stefanucci exclusively uses black and white to render ghostly impressions of his subjects. His figures are left incomplete and their edges are obscured, creating a shroud of mystery that invites the viewer to enter and explore...
Polish painter, Grażyna Smalej, incorporates a variety of different styles in each one of her works. With a solid foundation in realism, she incorporates surreal and abstract elements to create flowing, expansive scenes in her paintings. Figurative elements become a jumping off point for a journey into a dream world where emotion and meaning is...
Jeremy Mann creates stunning oil paintings using heavy, abstract brushstrokes that capture the grit of urban cityscapes. The frenetic spots of light and line creates a buzzing energy that takes hold of the viewer and give us no choice but to fall in love with the places he represents. His recent works capture scenes from around his hometown of San...
Organic and artificial methods are used together to form this haunting set of photographs by Seung-Hwan Oh, aka Tonio Oh. The Korean photographer experimented with degrading his photos by submerging the film in water where various types of bacteria would slowly destroy it. Over time, the bacteria obscured portraits and backgrounds, creating new...
Born in Atlanta, Georgia to parents fleeing Cuba soon after Castro came to power, Anthony Goicolea often incorporates his cultural heritage as well as a sense of displacement in his works of art. He works in a variety of media such as black-and-white and color photography, sculpture and video installations, and multi-layered drawings on...
Poland-based artist, Igor Dobrowolski paints stirring portraits that dive into the subject’s personal history and explores their past tragedies. In such delicately rendered works, Dobrowolski touches on topics like death, depression, apathy, and poverty. The portraits themselves are often obscured and overlaid with symbolic imagery and...
Las Vegas-based artist, Amy Sol, paints dreamy, delicate worlds featuring girls lost in thought and accompanied by animal friends. Often, the works are completed in neutral tones of color in thin layers over wood pallets. The grain of the wood often peeks through from underneath layers of paint and lends a calm sense of flow to compliment the...
Melbourne-based artist, Adam Lee, creates fantasy worlds that draw inspiration from Biblical narratives and history. Working in traditional mediums and watercolor, his luminous paintings evoke a sense of story-filled wonder reminiscent of Marc Chagall. From Lee’s website, “His practice focuses on a re-interpretation of painting and drawing...
In his series titled “Tower of Babel”, Chinese artist Du Zhenjun presents us with a contemporary version of the apocalypse. Huge structures loom in the center of each piece as scenes of political unrest, and the impacts of globalization and pollution materialize below. Du is considered one of the pioneering digital artists in China and he...
