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The Artist Who Treats Lamps, Glass, And Mixed Media As Narrative Objects
Source Design You Trust Carson Teal is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Canada whose practice blends stained glass, collage, mixed media, and animation-adjacent image making. His work is built around light, memory, transformation, and layered hand-built forms, often crossing between craft and contemporary design. Teal’s pieces feel like colorful reliquaries: translucent surfaces, symbolic forms,…
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Jaehyun Kim Creates Cinematic Worlds Where Movement, Memory, And Nature Interweave Into Living Narrative Landscapes
Source Design You Trust Jaehyun Kim is a concept artist and visual development artist who works on IP development, narrative worlds, and character-driven design for animation and game-related projects. He has collaborated with major studios including Paramount Animation and Sony while building his own ongoing narrative universe ARAEMARU: NAL. Kim’s work is centered on movement…
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Francesco Lo Castro’s Layered Geometries Turn Painting Into A Floating Architectural Experience
Source Design You Trust Francesco Lo Castro is a Miami-based artist whose practice centers on layered geometric abstraction, optical depth, and material-rich painting. His works combine wood, spray paint, epoxy resin, acrylic, and gold leaf into compositions that feel both architectural and suspended, with strong references to Italian Futurism and analog computer graphics. Lo Castro’s…
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At Joy Machine, ‘Feel Free’ Plumbs the Tension Between Chaos and Control
Source Colossal Joy Machine is pleased to present Feel Free, a group exhibition featuring new works by Rachel Hayden, Paulina Ho, Hanna Lee Joshi, and Jeremy Miranda. The opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on May 15, 2026. Attempting to create order and find clarity amid chaos is human instinct. Since…
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Faig Ahmed Weaves Mysticism, Science, Technology, and Craft into ‘The Attention’
Source Colossal Faig Ahmed is known for his vibrant textile sculptures that take traditional Azerbaijani ornamental carpets as starting point, often appearing to melt, pool, or glitch. In his current solo presentation at the 61st Venice Biennale, where he is representing Azerbaijan, the Baku-based artist branches out into more conceptual territory, exploring science, alchemy, spirituality,…
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Featured Artist Kristina Vanous
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In ‘Piercing the Veil,’ Marina Kappos Gets to Know the Spectre of Grief
Source Colossal Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is perhaps one of the world’s most famous burial grounds, home to luminaries like authors Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust, musicians and composers like Frédéric Chopin, Édith Piaf, and even The Doors’ Jim Morrison, among many others. Its family tombs and sculptural headstones are iconic, and when artist…
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Anastasia Koronskaya’s Urban Paintings Feel Like Psychological Architecture
Source Design You Trust Anastasia Koronskaya is a St. Petersburg painter whose work builds a personal universe of futuristic megacities, industrial structures, bridges, and dreamlike urban landscapes. Her paintings combine architectural precision with expressive, atmospheric brushwork, often shifting between realism, abstraction, and noir-like mood. Koronskaya describes her practice as a self-made universe filled with houses…