Source Colossal   More than 15,300 submissions made their way to the judges for this year’s Close-Up Photographer of the Year, setting a record for the highest number of entries in the competition’s history. From uncanny insects to slime molds to unexpected animal interactions, photographs captured by amateur and professional photographers alike highlight the diverse and…

Source Colossal   Plumbing the rhythms of the ocean and marine life, Amy Genser creates undulating abstractions that evoke swells, currents, reefs, and the sea floor. The artist composes elaborate wall works from rolled mulberry paper, acrylic, and wire in which patterns move and converge across swaths of blues and greens. The closer you look, the…

Source Design You Trust  Imagine stumbling upon an abandoned computer from the year 2085 and discovering that its hard drive is filled with artwork created by a particularly eccentric cyberpunk philosopher. That’s roughly the experience of exploring the work of Los Angeles-based digital artist Justin Mays. Chrome-plated skulls, holographic crystals, mysterious geometric symbols, and synthetic…

Source Design You Trust  Some artists draw monsters. Jeff Simpson seems more interested in figuring out what happens when nature itself starts making terrible decisions. His unsettling collection of character designs, grotesque creatures, and biomechanical experiments is populated by things that look as though they evolved somewhere they really shouldn’t have. Human faces dissolve into…

Source Design You Trust  There’s a peculiar kind of beauty in the moments when you’re too tired to stay awake but somehow unable to fall asleep. Faces become unfamiliar, lights dissolve into strange colors, and ordinary memories begin to resemble scenes from a dream you can’t quite remember. This unsettling territory is where visual artist…

Source Design You Trust  What if Anakin Skywalker had never turned to the dark side? What if the most familiar faces in Star Wars had lived entirely different lives? These are the kinds of possibilities that make the AI-generated creations of visual artist Irho Oskea so intriguing. His imaginative interpretations of George Lucas’s universe revisit…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Robert McArthur blends fantasy and imagination in this fascinating collection of mixed media works.  The post Featured Artist Robert McArthur appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Son Lux’s newest music video is an atmospheric mini-epic. Last month, the video premiered at MASS MoCA—the piece is a joint commission by the museum and Pioneer Works and made in collaboration with Alex Cook—as an immersive, 17-minute installation titled “Out Into Us (Slow Down),” complementing the release of the band’s ninth studio…