Source artforum.com  FICTIONS OF EMPIRE abound in adventure, heroism, spectacle. Swashbuckling swordsmen. Precocious war correspondents. Worldly white men clad in Indigenous garb. Out there, in those wild lands, the

Source artforum.com  In her debut solo museum exhibition, “Gratiot Griot,” seventy-year-old mixed-media collage artist Judy Bowman pays tribute to the community that raised her. A child of Detroit’s historic Black Bottom

Source artforum.com  A collector attending a Miami art fair last Thursday shattered a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog valued at $42,000 after accidentally nudging the plinth on which it was perched. The sixteen-inch-high sculpture,

Source Colossal   “The Gaze” (2021), acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches. All images © Patrick Akpojotor, shared with permission Combining a love for African masks and the people and buildings of his hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, Patrick Akpojotor (previously) merges the figurative details of faces, shoulders, and arms with the geometric forms of hallways,…

Source Artsy Shark  Artist Francis Demaske shares an exquisite portfolio of architecturally inspired paintings and landscapes in his distinctive colorful style. The post Featured Artist Francis Demaske appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  The Hole is proud to announce our forthcoming exhibition of paintings and drawings by Pedro Pedro: Table, Fruits, Flowers and Cakes. For his third solo show with The Hole, LA-based artist Pedro Pedro (b. 1986) includes a variety of his signature imagery, creating indulgent and delicious paintings…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Elizaveta Porodina’s exhibition Un/Masked at Fotografiska New York reflects the past few years of Elizaveta’s life and work. Her imagery is surreal, dreamy and intimate, on occasion frightening, haunting and delicate. Tears and water are recurring themes in her images and she draws inspiration from her childhood in…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  “I relish tending my garden of roses, succulents, and natives,” Hayley Barker said in her Spring 2023 Quarterly interview with Juxtapoz. “It’s modest, and I am pretty much a novice, but I find great pleasure and endless inspiration from getting my hands in the dirt. I love…