Source Colossal   Ankie Gooijers. All images courtesy of the Mauritshuis While Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is on loan to Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum for the largest-ever exhibition of the Dutch artist’s work, a cheeky surrogate takes its place. The Mauritshuis in the Hague is currently showing My Girl with a Pearl, a lighthearted and vastly creative…

Source artforum.com  At the entrance to Damien Davis’s exhibition “SEARCHING,” visitors are provided a flashlight and led into a darkened gallery. The windows and walls are blacked out, yet the room is illuminated by the

Source Colossal   “Siren Song.” All images © Adrian Landon Brooks, shared with permission Whether working on walls, rough slices of wood, or photographs unearthed from antique stores, Adrian Landon Brooks centers his paintings on the otherworldly. The Austin-based artist returns to characters and scenes with a mythical bent in his acrylic compositions, which are largely guided by the…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  It’s been a year since the war in Ukraine began, and nearly a year since Juxtapoz collaborated with Ukrainian artists on the Save Ukraine Now print project curated by Kyiv-based, WAONE. It goes without saying that artists from around the world have contributed to numerous causes to…

Source Artsy Shark  Inspired by the classic shapes and themes of ancient history, artist Richard Laurenzi creates terracotta sculpture to capture the imagination. The post Featured Artist Richard Laurenzi appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  In a surprise that many saw coming, especially with the influx of galleries opening Los Angeles outposts, Perrotin, the famed Paris-based gallery with spaces throughout Asia and NYC, is headed to the Southland. And to kick off the space, they have brought the legendary TWIST, aka Barry…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  “I make paintings to tell stories about the lives of women, rooted in the concept of personal narrative and inherently tied to the feminine realm. Depictions of modern female friendships, my family, and women in singular moments of self-reflection and celebration seek to depict my core values…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  To portray reality via only its polished surface and not its crumbling core can’t be the best way to approach representational painting. Not, at least, in the 21st century, when we are keenly aware of the shipwreck that humanity has been steadily navigating toward. When depicting contemporary…