Source Colossal   What better way to meditate on nature’s most majestic features than to recreate its details one stitch at a time? Since picking up a needle and thread in 2020, Cassandra Dias has translated rugged cliffsides, neat vineyards, and sun-streaked mountains into lush embroideries. The Southern California-based artist uses a technique known as thread…

Source Colossal   Over the course of two decades, Queens resident Joe Macken meticulously built an entire city from the ground up. In fact, he built New York City—the whole thing—one building, house, and bridge at a time. Now, his expansive scale construction is on view in He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model at the…

Source Colossal   One of the most common sights in cities is birds perched on power lines, although it rarely elicits a second look. Starlings chortle, pigeons coo, and the occasional hawk perches on a pole to scan the ground for its next meal. And yet, as normal as this seems, there’s nothing natural about it.…

Source Artsy Shark  For featured artist Susan Zwirn, painting is about discovery, revision, and staying open to what the work reveals. The post Featured Artist Susan Zwirn appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Design You Trust  Sıla Şehrazat Yücel is an Istanbul-based artist who blends her background in landscape architecture (Istanbul University, 2010) and master’s degree in design with experience as art director in cinema and theater. Her practice spans digital painting, AI-generated art, jewelry, and decorative objects. Yücel’s signature aesthetic is surreal, evocative, and asymmetrical, featuring…

Source Design You Trust  Tim Tadder is a self-taught advertising photographer, director, and conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. Tadder’s early exposure came from his father’s darkrooms; he later became renowned for high-concept series like “Water Wigs” (high-speed captures of exploding water balloons on bald heads). His commercial work serves Nike, Amazon, and Getty Images,…

Source Design You Trust  Kim Collister is a mixed media artist based in Conway, Arkansas, creating vibrant, textural journals, collages, and altered books that celebrate experimentation with paper, paint, and found objects. Collister’s aesthetic is whimsical yet layered, featuring gessoed substrates, vintage brushes, reflective paints, and stenciled patterns. Recent series explore color theory (“The Untruth…

Source Design You Trust  Fabian Oberhammer (previously featured), known as The Dizzy Viper, is an Italian digital artist born in 1997 in Merano, South Tyrol. Since February 2017, he has created a daily digital artwork—over 3,000 pieces—without missing a single day, building a monumental “Everydays” project. Oberhammer specializes in hyper-realistic 3D renders of supercars, luxury…