Source Design You Trust  Chertopoloh Arts is where dark fairytales come to life in clay and fabric. Anastasia, the artist behind the name, sculpts one-of-a-kind art dolls that look like they’ve wandered out of an ancient storybook and into your hands. There is something immediately enchanting about her work. These are not factory-made toys or…

Source Design You Trust  Rich McCor is a Brighton-based artist and photographer who has figured out how to make the entire world look like a playful joke. His method is brilliantly simple: he takes black paper cutouts, holds them up against famous landmarks, and snaps a photo that completely reimagines what you are looking at.…

Source Design You Trust  Birdcube_ is the kind of artist page that instantly tells you it belongs to the BJD and custom doll world. The work centers on expressive doll sculpts, face-ups, and character designs, with a clear handmade, collector-focused identity. Birdcube_ is the kind of artist page that instantly tells you it belongs to…

Source Colossal   In Slow Burn, Shawn Huckins puts the cognitive dissonance that defines our current era in stark relief. The New Hampshire-based painter has long challenged American mythology and collective aggrandizing by reinterpreting canonical artworks and visual languages. His series have commented on the U.S.’s proclivity for erasing history and the ways our garments convey…

Source Colossal   When New Jersey-based artist and educator Ruth Borgenicht attended university, she studied mathematics. But as she shares in a statement: “Love of math was not enough to invent new ideas in this field—unfortunately for me, that also required genius.” As the saying goes, when a door closes, a window opens, and for Borgenicht,…

Source Artsy Shark  What does your art portfolio communicate before anyone learns anything about you as an artist? The post What Your Art Portfolio Says About You appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Design You Trust  Hana Choi is a Korean painter whose work revolves around memory, matter, meaning, and the dissolution of self. The paintings feel introspective and conceptual, with a strong sense that they are trying to make visible something unstable or hard to name. Hana is an emerging Korean artist, born in 2003, and…

Source Colossal   Marisa Aragón Ware grew up wandering through the Rocky Mountain forests of Colorado, where she reveled in nature’s diversity. There, she learned about woodland wildflowers, fungi, birds, and more with the help of her dad, who is a scientist. Over time, her fascination with organic forms made its way into an evolving art…