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Shepard Fairey: Out of Print @ Beyond the Streets, Los Angeles
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home BEYOND THE STREETS is proud to present SHEPARD FAIREY: OUT OF PRINT, a landmark exhibition devoted to the artist’s lifelong dialogue with printmaking. Bringing together more than 400 original screen prints alongside new and re‑mixed works that combine screen printing and stenciling, the exhibition surveys Fairey’s enduring commitment to…
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This Artist Creates Pre‑apocalyptic Pop‑surreal Paintings With Glossy Humour And Horror Reframing Death And Consumer Culture
Source Design You Trust Tyler Tilley is a Canadian‑born surreal pop artist currently based in Thailand, known for “cute & weird” oil paintings that mash up pop‑culture icons, horror, kitsch and dark humour. He describes himself as “not a fan of normal” and “painting during the pre‑apocalyptic period,” building highly rendered, candy‑coloured scenes where skulls,…
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“What Can We Do To Save Ourselves In This Difficult World?”: The Obsessive Sketchbook‑style Drawings By Isamu Gakiya
Source Design You Trust Isamu Gakiya aka Guinea Mate is a Japanese illustrator and draughtsman known for dense, surreal pencil and pen drawings that sit between portrait, creature design, and psychological vignette. His works often merge human faces with masks, animals, and mechanical or organic growths, balancing beauty and discomfort in scenes that feel like…
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‘Some Interesting Apples’ Delves into the World of Feral Fruit
Source Colossal In 2019, Cornwall-based artists William Arnold and James Fergusson began paying a lot of attention to wild apple trees growing in unique and sometimes unlikely locations around the Cornish countryside. Remarkably, every apple seed is capable of producing an entirely different variety. And it’s this immense genome that inspired the pair to begin…
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Illustrator Paul Blow Creates Simple‑looking but Idea‑rich Artworks, With Restrained Palettes and Clean Lines
Source Design You Trust Paul Blow is a Scottish‑born, Dorset‑based illustrator known for witty, concept‑driven images that strip ideas down to bold shapes, limited colour and dry humour. A graduate of Maidstone College of Art with a master’s in Narrative Illustration, he has spent decades working mainly in editorial and commercial illustration for clients like…
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Artist Greg Pettit Creates Transdimensional Still‑life Paintings With Airbrushed Crystals, Portals, and Objects Suspended in Space
Source Design You Trust Greg Pettit is a contemporary painter based in Austin, Texas, who describes himself as a “transdimensional still‑life painter” and “airbrush wizard,” building meticulous, surreal compositions from abstract sculptural references. Using acrylic and airbrush on paper or panel, he creates crystalline, floating forms, portals, and geometric objects that feel both scientific and…
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Artist Creates Paintings Where Plants, Animals and Space Collide, With Dreamlike Compositions Exploring Time, Mystery and Quiet Transformation
Source Design You Trust Scott Mills is a Detroit‑born, Asheville‑based painter and illustrator whose work sits between surrealism and pop‑surrealism, often featuring animals, plants, space motifs and glowing, otherworldly atmospheres. Working mainly in acrylic (and more recently oil) on canvas, he builds scenes where nature, time and inner emotion overlap—bears, birds, insects and celestial forms…
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Artist Creates Dreamy Picture‑book Worlds With Gentle Giants, Turning Everyday Scenes Into Small Pieces of poetry
Source Design You Trust Paolo Domeniconi is an Italian illustrator based in Spilamberto (Modena), best known for atmospheric, story‑driven images for children’s books that mix realism with quiet magic. After studying art and working in advertising, he moved fully into children’s illustration; since then he has created around 60 picture books, many covers and educational…