Source Design You Trust  Chema Méndez is a Spanish digital collage artist based in the Canary Islands who has created mixed digital media works since 2009. His practice merges classical paintings (public domain) with modern photography, 3D renders, AI, and personal sketches to form surreal, layered compositions. Méndez’s aesthetic blends M.C. Escher’s precision, René Magritte’s…

Source Colossal   “We live with so many hard things,” says Sheila Hicks, “that we’re crying for softness.” The pleasure, simplicity, and tactile qualities of textiles ground a new film from Louisiana Channel, which explores the ways in which fiber art remains both evocative and relevant in this increasingly digital era. “7 Artists on Soft Sculptures”…

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.