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.

Source Colossal   In Yorùbá culture, it’s said that more than 600 years ago, a hunter discovered a lush grove in southwestern Nigeria carved by a rushing river. His community had experienced drought and eagerly moved to the region, which they quickly learned was under the rule of the goddess of rivers and fertility, Ọ̀ṣun. In…

Source Design You Trust  Nathalie Charrié is a ceramic sculptor based in Toulouse. She studied at isdaT, lives and works in Toulouse, and builds her practice around animal and plant life, drawing on sources that range from entomology and medieval bestiaries to engraving and etymology. Her sculptures are filled with hybrid creatures — part animal,…