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Anxious Thoughts and Dreams Occupy the Minds of Johnson Tsang’s Porcelain Figures
Source Colossal “Cross My Mind” (2020), porcelain, fake grass, and trees, 11.8 × 11.8 × 5.5 inches. All images © Johnson Tsang, shared with permission Through contorted figures, Johnson Tsang continues to stretch the limits of human consciousness as he blurs the boundary between the real and surreal. The Hong Kong-based artist has spent decades sculpting works in ceramic…
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Willem Dafoe’s Inside and the art of entrapment
Source artforum.com THE SELF-PORTRAIT ISN’T THERE. Otherwise, the heist is going fine. Willem Dafoe has breached the penthouse, thwarted the alarm, located two fairly chaste but still pricey Schieles. There’s just one
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The Other Art Fair Returns To Barker Hangar in Los Angeles This March
Source Colossal Friends show off their art purchases at The Other Art Fair in Barker Hangar. All photos by Timothy Musho Your average art experience might look like this: a sparse selection of art on display, out-of-budget, eerily quiet, and overall a bit underwhelming. The Other Art Fair aims to shake this up and is heading to…
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Featured Artist Cheryl McDonald
Source Artsy Shark Artist Cheryl McDonald presents a collection of fantastical scenes created in graphite and colored pencil. See more of her surreal artwork on her website. I was raised in a small town by two loving parents who came from small town backgrounds. Visiting art galleries was a rarity and art was…
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Michal Chelbin’s Photographs Inside Russian and Ukrainian Prisons
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Over the course of six years, artist Michal Chelbin gained unprecedented access in order to photograph male and female inmates in seven prisons across Ukraine and Russia. Not wanting to be influenced by knowledge of her subjects’ crimes, she focused on the complicated gaze of the prisoners,…
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Preview: Luciano Sanchez’ Lowbrow Inspired Paintings @ Brassworks Gallery, Portland
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home If there was ever an example of the global spread and phenomenon that is Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow, we can look no further than the works of Luciano Sanchez. Born in the late 1970s in Granada, Spain, Sanchez ironically was influenced by a movement happening on the…
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Felipe Pantone Goes to the “Kosmos” @ CONTROL Gallery, Los Angeles
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home CONTROL Gallery in LA is pleased to announce Kosmos, the solo debut at CONTROL from world-renowned Argentinian-Spanish visual artist Felipe Pantone. Adopted from the Greek word for order, Kosmos finds Felipe Pantone in a harmonious place of balance between a world of polar opposites where both extremes can be existential at the…
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Samantha Joy Groff’s “Dark Pastures” @ Half Gallery, NYC
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home I always thought Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ had a film noir quality to it. Judas IDi-ng Jesus while the Roman guards stand ready to arrest him felt like a disciple turned state’s evidence as the son of God took his perp walk. The glint, the shimmer…
