Source Colossal   All images © Janny Baek, shared with permission “I’ve always been drawn to art in different ways, but sculpting clay by hand seems to come most naturally to me. I think it is my most effective means of communication,” says Janny Baek, whose playful, abstract ceramics blur the line between form and function.…

Source Colossal   Torii Kotondo, “Hair Combing” (1932) From Katsushika Hokusai’s unmistakable views of Mount Fuji to contemporary landscapes by Asano Takeji, Ukiyo-e Search collects a wide variety of Japanese woodblock prints. Programmer John Resig built the online database back in 2012, and the archive now boasts more than 223,000 individual artworks from the early 18th century to today.…

Source Colossal   All images © Andrew McCarthy and Jason Guenzel, shared with permission Astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy (previously) and Jason Guenzel recently teamed up to create a staggering look at the sun that showcases the textured, fiery details of its atmosphere. Comprised of more than 90,000 individual images, “Fusion of Helios” showcases the usually invisible solar corona, the outermost…

Source Artsy Shark  Artist Mark Lembo presents a collection of  mixed-media woven paintings and montages inspired by music. See more of his portfolio on his website.     I play in a pool of aqueous solutions including liquid watercolor, acrylic ink, alcohol ink, liquid acrylics, metallic watercolors, pearlescent inks, even food coloring. I bring to…

Source artforum.com  “Njabala: Holding Space” is the second iteration of the annual exhibition program for the Njabala Foundation, which was launched in 2021 by Ugandan curator Martha Kazungu as a means to increase visibility

Source artforum.com  In his novel The Man Without Qualities (1930/42), Robert Musil wrote, “Unfortunately, nothing is so hard to achieve as a literary representation of a man thinking,” because the outcome “no longer has

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  I was convinced that Spanish artist Imon Boy had a Ph.D. in Astronomy because I read it on the Internet and believed it to be so. But there’s always a catch in assuming the Internet is about truth, and perhaps it was more about me imagining this…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  On today’s A Portfolio, we take a look at the airbrush paintings of Seattle-based painter, Hank Reavis. As he notes on his site, he uses “airbrush to react to the current hyper-saturated image culture and his anxiety around authorship in this image climate. His compositions draw from…