Source Colossal   Growing up in the Australian Outback, where he first picked up a camera as a teenager to document his surroundings in the bush, Jon McCormack developed a keen eye for the beauty and subtleties of nature. Throughout his career, he’s stepped foot on all seven continents. Yet the idea for his new book,…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Sandra Harris captures the essence of her subjects with a passion for faith and love of nature. The post Featured Artist Sandra Harris appeared first on Artsy Shark.

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,…