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Street Artist Creates Superb Urban‑surreal Murals With Nature, Ruins and Machinery Tangled Together in Poetic, Dreamlike Scenes
Source Design You Trust Maye (Victorien Liria) is a French painter and street artist from Sète known for tall, elastic characters and highly detailed surreal scenes that stretch between mural and canvas work. A self‑taught graffiti artist who started painting walls as a teenager, he now moves fluidly between street interventions and studio paintings where…
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Spectacular Award-Winning Landscape and Wildlife Photos from the Mobile Photography Awards
Source Design You Trust 1st Place Winner: “Encounter with a Fox” by Krasimir Matarov The 14th Annual Mobile Photography Awards unveiled breathtaking winners, proving that phone cameras can rival pro gear. With sheer talent, photographers transformed everyday scenes into extraordinary works of art, especially in landscape and wildlife categories. Their 38 winning shots showcase crisp…
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Laust Højgaard Creates Grotesque, Post‑apocalyptic Giant Portraits With Dark Humour and Heavy Texture Turning Misfits Into Fragile Gods
Source Design You Trust Laust Højgaard is a Danish painter (born 1989) whose large acrylic works depict “grotesque and quirky” giant figures—misfits, outsiders and fragile titans—set in a surreal, almost post‑apocalyptic universe. Now based in Berlin, he works on several canvases at once, building heavily textured, distorted bodies with exaggerated features, rich colour and a…
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Otherworldly Photos of Forests by Michelle Blancke Explore Mysticism and Transformation
Source Colossal “I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that our perceived reality is shaped by our minds and reflecting our inner world,” says artist Michelle Blancke, whose ethereal photographs of trees, glens, and foliage invite us into a familiar yet uncanny world. Her lens-based practice explores themes of interdependence, consciousness, and concealment, especially through…
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In ‘Terminal Classic,’ Timo Fahler Grapples with Dualities and Contradictions
Source Colossal In 2024, while Timo Fahler was out for a run in Los Angeles, he came across a discarded bedspring. It lingered in his studio for months until one day, its thirteen rows of springs revealed themselves as the red and white stripes of the American flag. It also turned out to be the…
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What Makes an Artist Truly Recognizable?
Source Artsy Shark by Carolyn Edlund What makes one artist recognizable to their audience, while another equally talented artist remains invisible? A professional brand is not built on trends or social media hype. It is a strong reputation developed through clarity, consistency, credibility, and excellent presentation. These don’t happen by accident. They are…
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Andy Woll: New Objectivity @ Night Gallery, Los Angeles
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Here’s just a few great paint slingers: Delacroix, Neel, Auerbach, Van Gogh, Grotjahn, Cecily, Hockney, Henry, Freud, Peyton, Ryman, Hals, Schutz, Schnabs, Lisa Y, Monet, Manet. And yeah, I’m gonna go there and toss in Woll.
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Love Bite: Alison Friend @ Harman Projects, NYC
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Harman Projects is pleased to announce Love Bite, a solo exhibition by UK-based artist Alison Friend. Known for her irresistible anthropomorphic animal portraits, Friend blends classical techniques with a distinctly mischievous imagination. Drawing stylistic inspiration from the Old European Masters, Friend’s oil paintings capture the secret lives…
