Australian street artist REKA just paid major props to the native Jacksonville flora and fauna with his latest wall mural. The oversized painting is a part of the local Art Republic Street Art event that celebrates and encourages adorning the city’s streets with colorful, thoughtful public artworks.Flora and Fauna highlights some of the most...
Brazilian artist Harding Meyer creates imposingly large-scale portraits that immediately draw the viewer into the subject’s oversized gaze. The works feature prominent brushstrokes and sometimes distortions that hint that we’re looking at the subject through glass or some other barrier.The faces are taken from all sorts of media such as...
Irish-born painter Conor Harrington creates classically inspired paintings of the human form to explore themes of conflict and roles within society. In one popular work, Sluggers Paradise, he depicts two men angrily pulling on opposite ends of a rope. Their allegiance is depicted using blue and red which harks to the political divide in America...
“The process is very free-form and intuitive” says Mia Pearlman about how she creates her giant hanging paper installations for various galleries around the world. Pearlman starts off each piece by drawing large shapes in ink on paper. Then she cuts out the spaces in between the ink, allowing each prior cut to determine her next move so that...
Julie Heffernan creates works described as “a new kind of history painting”. She conjures fantasy-filled landscapes that blend with urban imaginary all the while pointing to disaster either impending or recently realized. They feature the artist herself as she makes her way through an environment seemingly in the midst of transformation. “My...
French artist Romain Langlois creates sculptures inspired both by the human form and natural world. He has an uncommon, abstract style resulting from his clear passion for experimentation and curiosity to explore new forms and textures. When he first began sculpting, he started off using plaster and clay but moved to bronze and stone to create...
Christy Lee Rogers photographs water in ways we’ve never imagined. In her series, A Quarter of a Million Miles, she seems to depict angelic figures floating slowly through heaven. Light is spotlighted on the form and fill the space with drama and color. It’s clear what kind of influence she draws from the Baroque movement and particularly from...
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using gold as an adhesive for the cracks. By lining the cracks with gold, the imperfections are emphasized and the piece ends up looking more beautiful than before. Korean artist Yeesookyung takes that idea and goes even further in her sculptural works called Translated Vase. Pieces of...
Hundreds of individual photographs go into creating just one of Ysbel LeMay’s nature-based collages. The Canadian artist will combine fragments of plants with animals, and natural elements to create stunning “panoramas of natural splendour” that transport the viewer into a whole other world. During 15 years of working in the advertising...
Photographer Andrea Torres Balaguer tries to create dark and minimalistic fantasy worlds in her photography. The Barcelona-based artist explores themes of surrealism, mystery, and symbolism as well as the concept of scene and narrative storytelling. Her works have a highly conceptual tone and focus attention on the emotional and psychological...
It took over 370 hours for artist Xavier Casalta to complete just one piece of art, titled Autumn. The work itself bears the mark of his intense labor in its intricate and life-like renditions of plants and fruits. Drawn on a 56×56 cm Arches sheet, the piece is comprised of 7 million dots from a thin 0.10 mm pen. The artist creates his...
