A selection of recent work by Saigon, Vietnam-based artist Mai Ta (previously featured here). Often mounted on wood board, Ta’s small, intimate gouache paintings depict the inner world she seeks to reconcile with—inner wounds, secrets, memories—all sublimated into her own symbols and manifested on paper. Ta seeks to find truth in her feelings and honor them through the act of […]
A selection of recent work by Danish artist Laust Højgaard. Featuring what he describes as “grotesque and quirky character portraits,” Højgaard’s eccentric paintings are inspired by fashion, horror movies, pop culture, and childhood memories. See more from Laust Højgaard below!
Bifido Walks a Refugee High Wire in San Potito Sannitico (Italy)The Italian Bifido is back with his photographic surrealist scenarios, this time from the Fate Festival in San Potito Sannitico, a tiny town of about 2,000 in the south of Italy. Reacting to the refug…
Sneak Peek of “Beyond The Streets” Now Mounting in BrooklynHammering the display walls, sanding off the plaster bumps, the whirring and popping of construction drills: Two assistants are helping 1970s NYC subway writer Lee Quinones lay out a #2 train-car-len…
Nina Chanel Abney Mulls It Over In Arkansas“It can’t be unity unless everyone is respected equally,” says contemporary artist and occasional muralist Nina Chanel Abney as she talks about her new four panelled installation in Northwest Arkansa…
A selection of paintings by Wichita-born, Pittsburgh-based artist Travis K. Schwab. Schwab began teaching himself to paint after studying graphic design in college. During the quarantine days of the pandemic in 2020, Schwab’s work became about the repetitive nature of isolation and what it’s like to have nothing but time on one’s hands: “It was a very lonely time for […]
Mateusz Kowalik is a visual storyteller based in Warsaw, Poland. His practice centers on issues of contemporary society, most recently exploring the Polish wilderness and those who live in close relationship with nature in his series, “Devil’s Rib.” “Most of my characters are united by the desire for a better life without a lot of stimuli, overexploitation of the planet, […]
Join the party today in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the street art festival Kin Graff 4 brought many to celebrate the murals, the artists, and the festival itself with music, food, and dancing. Today we see images of the artists and celebrants here in the municipality of Kinshasa called Bandal, which is short for Bandalungwa. […]
Join the party today in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the street art festival Kin Graff 4 brought many to celebrate the murals, the artists, and the festival itself with music, food, and dancing. Today we see images of the artists and celebrants here in the municipality of Kinshasa called Bandal, which is short for Bandalungwa. […]
Sara Birns distills the multi-faceted and ever-changing nature of human character into each of her uncanny, contorted portraits. Though she’s always loved drawing faces, she began to develop new techniques when she started dedicating herself more seriously to her painting practice. Seeking to illuminate the various influences that impact how our faces appear to one another and change over time, […]