Source Colossal   In archaeology, discoveries typically prompt more questions than answers. For Max Lehman, who studies Pre-Columbian art history, what we don’t know—and may never—about ancient peoples and civilizations is what makes the discipline so compelling. The ancient Mayans, for example, bedecked their elaborate temples with images on carved rock slabs, and the Aztec sun…

Source Design You Trust  Ayan Nag, an Indian artist and illustrator from Jalpaiguri who works across plein-air painting, environments, concept art, and visual development. Based in Bangalore for much of his career, he balances travel-based observation with imaginative worldbuilding for studios and clients including Ubisoft, Psyop, Procreate, Passion Pictures, Technicolor, and ImagineFX. Nag’s work begins…

Source Design You Trust  CLAYZIQ is a cinematic-retro wall-art studio creating dreamlike scenes of glowing horizons, quiet rooms, palm-lined roads, beach drives, and neon-lit city nights. Its own phrase, “nostalgic therapy,” captures the idea: images designed to trigger the feeling of a memory you may never have lived, but somehow recognize instantly. The studio works…

Source Design You Trust  Thomas Albdorf, an Austrian artist and photographer whose deceptively simple still lifes, object studies, and sculptural images explore how easily photography can make reality feel unstable. A tomato may appear to change over time, an egg may float above a spoon, or ordinary material fragments may become an impossible spatial arrangement…

Source Design You Trust  Javier Demsky is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist whose practice began in graffiti in the early 1990s and has expanded into painting, sculpture, installation, animation, digital art, public murals, and experimental design. His unmistakable signature is the transformation of his own name into luminous, impossible structures that seem to fold through space…

Source Colossal   As a child in Dashishan Village in southern China, Tang Shuo was afraid of snakes. He and several generations of the Tang family lived together in a small community and farmed the land, tending to crops and sheep and encountering the occasional reptile. In a vivid new painting on linen, the artist confronts…

Source Colossal   From nail-cloaked ceramic vessels to larger-than-life busts influenced by African and Oceanic visual culture, Sharif Bey’s bold works summon the complexities of heritage, identity, and society. In his ceramic and mixed-media Guardian Series and Crown Series, calm yet imposing figures evoke the Benin Bronzes, ceremonial masking traditions, the giant Moai stone heads of…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist and painter Assunta Cassa creates bold and colorful art using a distinctive contemporary style. The post Featured Artist Assunta Cassa appeared first on Artsy Shark.