Source Colossal   When New Jersey-based artist and educator Ruth Borgenicht attended university, she studied mathematics. But as she shares in a statement: “Love of math was not enough to invent new ideas in this field—unfortunately for me, that also required genius.” As the saying goes, when a door closes, a window opens, and for Borgenicht,…

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Source Design You Trust  Hana Choi is a Korean painter whose work revolves around memory, matter, meaning, and the dissolution of self. The paintings feel introspective and conceptual, with a strong sense that they are trying to make visible something unstable or hard to name. Hana is an emerging Korean artist, born in 2003, and…

Source Colossal   Marisa Aragón Ware grew up wandering through the Rocky Mountain forests of Colorado, where she reveled in nature’s diversity. There, she learned about woodland wildflowers, fungi, birds, and more with the help of her dad, who is a scientist. Over time, her fascination with organic forms made its way into an evolving art…

Source Design You Trust  Justine Florentino is a self-taught digital painter from the Philippines who focuses on portraits, character work, and commissions. Her work is built around people, emotion, and careful observation, with a style that keeps a traditional painting feel even though it is made digitally. Justine says she paints people because she is…

Source Colossal   Given the heat generated during firing, it’s rare to see paper incorporated into a ceramics practice. For Seoul-based artist Jongjin Park, though, the two go hand-in-hand. Park recently won the 2026 Loewe Craft Prize, a prestigious annual award celebrating innovative makers, for his striking sculpture “Strata of Illusion.” A rectangular shape with an…

Source Colossal   With bodies composed of ghostly ferns, flowers, and fungi, Molly Devlin’s fantastical and ethereal acrylic portraits invite us into a dreamy woodland realm. Her works tap into the beauty and resilience of living creatures, from a white bear cloaked in translucent butterflies to a diminutive mouse composed of different lifecycle phases of a…

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