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Motherly Sacrifices and Aquatic Angst Top This Year’s Ocean Art Photography Contest
Source Colossal “Fighting Blue Throat Pike Blennys” by Mark Green, Honorable Mention Marine Life Behavior As they care for their unhatched babies, female octopuses refuse to eat, causing them to die of starvation before their young emerge from their eggs. Kat Zhou documented one of these marine mothers as she was in the process of such a…
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Elegant Glass ‘Elytra’ Wings Cleverly Unfurl from Radhika Dhumal’s Expandable Wooden Table
Source Colossal All images © Radhika Dhumal, shared with permission. Photographs by Arun Rameshan “This winged table marked the beginning of my flight as a furniture designer,” says Radhika Dhumal, whose playful coffee table titled “Elytra” features insectoid layers that extend outward from its center. Winning a 2019 ELLE DECO International Design Award and the…
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Embroidered Snacks and Mass-Produced Food by Alicja Kozlowska Chew On Consumerist Culture
Source Colossal All images © Alicja Kozłowska, shared with permission In the ongoing series Embroidered Ordinaries, Alicja Kozlowska translates the mass production of Pop Art into tightly stitched sculptures. The Polish artist sews packages of Oreos and half-eaten cookies, rusted cans with peeled-back tops, and 12-packs of Coca-Cola at full scale, recreating the recognizable logos and designs of ubiquitous snacks…
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Keeping It Going Round: Harman Projects Presents “TONDO”
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Harman Projects is pleased to present TONDO, a group exhibition featuring 50+ artists from around the world working in a round format. This exhibition features a diverse range of styles with each artist bringing their own unique take to the circular canvas. With a large lineup of artists,…
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Jenny Calivas’s Self-Portraits While Buried
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Jenny Calivas’s Surface Thing exhibition at Light Work presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective. The show comprises of three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth…
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Alexander Harrison’s Big World
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Alexander Harrison’s Big World will bring together fifteen enigmatic and intimately-scaled new paintings by the artist whose dreamscapes and object-symbols blend illusion and fantasy with archetypes from cultural history. This is Harrison’s first solo exhibition at Kasmin.
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Shannon Peel Gets a Piece of that “HOME SLICE”
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Shannon Peel is painting pop-culture iconography and at the same time I feel silly even writing that. Mayhe it’s lazy or just sort of off, because you don’t really see anything in particular you have seen on the telly or in film or in cartoons in his…
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Daniel Rich Makes Beauty Out of the “Flat Earth”
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home There is a vantage point on the mezzanine cafe at MoMA in NYC where the surrounding Midtown skyscrapers engulf you. There are layers and layers of grey concrete and glass windows that create a sort of blurring of your depth perception as to what is in the…