Source Colossal   Milan-based Filipina designer Mirei Monticelli creates biomorphic lighting fixtures that toe the line between sculpture and utility. Undulating outward and glowing from within, the artist’s works feel as if they are alive, quietly dancing wherever they stand or hang. These gestural, biodegradable structures are crafted with hand-woven Banaca fabric made from Abacá, a…

Source Design You Trust  Carson Teal is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Canada whose practice blends stained glass, collage, mixed media, and animation-adjacent image making. His work is built around light, memory, transformation, and layered hand-built forms, often crossing between craft and contemporary design. Teal’s pieces feel like colorful reliquaries: translucent surfaces, symbolic forms,…

Source Design You Trust  Francesco Lo Castro is a Miami-based artist whose practice centers on layered geometric abstraction, optical depth, and material-rich painting. His works combine wood, spray paint, epoxy resin, acrylic, and gold leaf into compositions that feel both architectural and suspended, with strong references to Italian Futurism and analog computer graphics. Lo Castro’s…

Source Design You Trust  Jaehyun Kim is a concept artist and visual development artist who works on IP development, narrative worlds, and character-driven design for animation and game-related projects. He has collaborated with major studios including Paramount Animation and Sony while building his own ongoing narrative universe ARAEMARU: NAL. Kim’s work is centered on movement…

Source Colossal   Joy Machine is pleased to present Feel Free, a group exhibition featuring new works by Rachel Hayden, Paulina Ho, Hanna Lee Joshi, and Jeremy Miranda. The opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on May 15, 2026. Attempting to create order and find clarity amid chaos is human instinct. Since…

Source Colossal   Faig Ahmed is known for his vibrant textile sculptures that take traditional Azerbaijani ornamental carpets as starting point, often appearing to melt, pool, or glitch. In his current solo presentation at the 61st Venice Biennale, where he is representing Azerbaijan, the Baku-based artist branches out into more conceptual territory, exploring science, alchemy, spirituality,…

Source Artsy Shark  Enjoy the beautifully elegant portfolio of artist Kristina Vanous, inspired by positivity, healing and transformation. The post Featured Artist Kristina Vanous appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is perhaps one of the world’s most famous burial grounds, home to luminaries like authors Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust, musicians and composers like Frédéric Chopin, Édith Piaf, and even The Doors’ Jim Morrison, among many others. Its family tombs and sculptural headstones are iconic, and when artist…