Source Colossal   Fashion reflects and influences culture. The 2026 Vilcek Prizes in Fashion & Design highlight immigrants elevating fashion through design practice, material innovation, makeup, and hairstyling. As part of its mission to uplift immigrants working in the arts and sciences, the Vilcek Foundation has awarded $250,000 to four immigrant fashion professionals: Peter Do, Jacques…

Source Colossal   Wenting Zhu and the team at Beauty of Science have released another visual ode to nature’s processes. “Crystal Garden: Seasons” features more than 100 chemical compounds manipulated with various pigments to create a kaleidoscope of colorful growths that spring up and crawl across the tiny, round vessels. Zhu writes about the project: “Garden…

Source Artsy Shark  Enjoy the work of artist Debra Kressner, whose lifelong love of visual storytelling celebrates color, curiosity, and the quiet joy found in everyday moments. The post Featured Artist Debra Kressner appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Katelyn Ledford. Known for virtuosic trompe-l’oeil and dark humor, Ledford constructs images where artifice, vulnerability, and bravado collide. Working exclusively with oil and acrylic on canvas, she renders wood grain, masking tape, lace, and denim with…

Source Design You Trust  Juan Carlos Brufal aka “Mono Azul,” is a self‑taught Argentinian digital artist (b. 1973, Buenos Aires), whose wildly saturated, psychedelic digital artworks fuse influences from Picasso, Dalí, Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Warhol, Man Ray and Basquiat. Rooted in earlier explorations of music and poetry, he builds dense, surreal narrative scenes—blue houses, cosmic…

Source Colossal   On a promontory in eastern Portugal overlooking the Hispano-Portuguese plateau and the gorges of the Rio Erges, a spherical installation sits amid brush and old stone walls. A project of Paris-based studio Atelier Yokyok, “Ninho Globo” is made of a local black rock called schist. The material lends a dramatic effect in contrast…

Source Colossal   Decades before the advent of photography, when European scientists and explorers were undertaking global expeditions and collecting flora and fauna from around the world, art and science converged in fields of medicine, anthropology, and natural history. During the Enlightenment, artists like Elizabeth Blackwell, John Gould, and Elizabeth Gould—among many, many others—documented botanicals, avians,…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Donna Stevens shares a collection of pastel paintings that invite the viewer to reconnect with nature. The post Featured Artist Donna Stevens appeared first on Artsy Shark.