Source Colossal   From portraits taken around Harlem in the 1940s to assignments for Life magazine to the 1963 March on Washington, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) wielded his camera as a tool for social justice. He captured civil rights activists like Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr. in addition to artists and celebrities such as Helen…

Source Artsy Shark  Enjoy a curated selection of artwork from twelve artists whose diverse mediums and perspectives make this showcase especially compelling.     Barbara L. Chapman This painting  was inspired by the ever changing light of late winter in the Pacific Northwest. The light and hues of color seem almost magical and  filled with…

Source Colossal   If you were to rip open a tattered matchbox, what might you find hidden in its confines? And what’s lurking behind biological renderings and advertisements? Jason Limon imagines a playful world in which vintage illustrations are the colorful veneer concealing a vast, three-dimensional universe populated by skeletons. The San Antonio-based artist has long…

Source Colossal   “It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it,” wrote stoic philosopher Lucius Seneca. The phrase appeared in his essay “De Brevitate Vitae,” or, “On the Shortness of Life,” which he scratched into papyrus around 49 A.D. Nearly 2,000 years on, his words reflect what…

Source Artsy Shark  Inspired by the beauty of the natural world, artist Diane Morgan creates larger-than-life botanical paintings. The post Featured Artist Diane Morgan appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Acclaimed British photographer Peter Marlow (1952-2016) was known for his journalistic attention to people and happenings in conflict zones and political interactions. Throughout his career, though, he also embarked on numerous personal documentary projects like Liverpool: Looking Out to Sea, which he completed in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the city…

Source Colossal   Rarely do artists conceive of work that is prescient and, decades on, more urgent than when it was created. One who has accomplished this is certainly Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), whose interdisciplinary practice merged photography, land art, sculpture, film, and more. And in a large-scale, immersive survey of her work that opens today at…

Source Artsy Shark  Why do some artists seem to steadily move forward while others remain stuck in the same place year after year?  The post 6 Habits of Successful Artists appeared first on Artsy Shark.