Source Colossal   It’s not uncommon for artists and architects to espouse a desire for breaking conventions and pushing boundaries, but so few have embodied such a mandate as James Wines. An unparalleled devotee of wit and play, Wines is behind SITE (Sculpture in the Environment), a New York-based studio founded in 1970 with a portfolio…

Source Colossal   Just because something doesn’t have a purpose doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing. “I made a film in Excel” by London-based Maria Tomazou might be “pointless,” as she says, but it’s also a quirky, fun, and inspiring project made for the purest of reasons: just because Tomazou wanted to. “It took ages to…

Source Design You Trust  Max Asabin is a digital artist and illustrator known for his painterly environmental compositions, character design, and expressive digital brushwork. While recognized across the digital art community for his background in complex image compositing, his illustration work centers directly on foundational drawing, atmospheric lighting studies, and digital painting techniques. His artwork…

Source Design You Trust  Chris Doretz is an art director, concept artist, and industrial designer whose work shapes major science-fiction entertainment projects. Bringing a strong foundation in industrial design to the digital art space, he has contributed visual development and hard-surface design to leading game franchises and industry giants, including Star Citizen, Microsoft, Eidos, Rockfish…

Source Design You Trust  Piotr Kryński is an art director and concept artist who has developed environments for major entertainment industry powerhouses, including Valve, Sony, HBO, and Netflix. Specializing in visual development for feature films and video games, he focuses on crafting believable, gritty, and atmospheric settings engineered to support high-stakes cinematic storytelling. His personal…

Source Artsy Shark  For pastel artist Cindy Berceli, every animal portrait is an opportunity to capture a personality and preserve a cherished connection. The post Featured Artist Cindy Berceli appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   In today’s art world, provocation and controversy are part and parcel of the market. Think recent pieces like Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” a.k.a. the duct-taped banana, or Damien Hirst’s diamond- and platinum-coated 18th-century human skull titled “For the Love of God.” And while art has never been immune to controversy, it hasn’t always been,…

Source Colossal   When Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (1940-2015) was born, her family moved to Columbus, Ohio’s brand new Poindexter Village. The public housing estate, dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, was one of the first federally funded projects of its kind to specifically support African Americans. (In 2028, a new museum is slated to…