Source Design You Trust  In the 2001 Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, just weeks after the September 11th attacks, two participants dressed as the Twin Towers with angel wings and halos, turning their costumes into heartfelt tributes. Their embrace symbolized unity, mourning, and the idea of the towers as reunited souls in the afterlife. That year,…

Source Colossal   Beneath ominous skies and set within flat, green parkland, Lee Madgwick’s folly-like buildings strike an unsettling note. His surreal paintings feature dilapidated facades and uncanny shrubbery against cloudy, deep gray skies—usually with something just a little strange going on. In “Drift,” for example, bricks dislodge from the top of a boxy structure and…

Source Colossal   For fans of cozy cottages, sipping tea with a good book, exploring misty woodlands, and relishing timeless folk- and fairytales, the illustrations of Vanessa Gillings tap into a sense of comfort and wonder. Her protagonists, often donning witchy or wizard-like hats, appear to be on marvelous and mysterious journeys, sometimes accompanied by ravens,…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Beth Lowell shares a collection of pastel paintings inspired by memories and a sense of place. The post Featured Artist Beth Lowell appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Richard Heller Gallery is pleased to present Riikka Sormunen, Only Lovers. This is Sormunen’s first solo exhibition in the United States and also her first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present November, Lenz Geerk’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in London and his first return to the city in six years. November arrives with the sweet-sour smell of a fruit bowl turning: peaches that were perfect in September now surrendering to bruise and bloom. Geerk…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  We mentioned this a few weeks back when we announced that Swoon was the juror for Surreal Salon 18, but the deadline for submissions is November 8, 2025. Each year, our friends at Baton Rouge Gallery host the Surreal Salon, with this season’s exhibition on view January 2…

Source Design You Trust  Shaun Tan is an Australian artist, writer, and filmmaker from Fremantle, Western Australia, best known for his award-winning graphic novel The Arrival and the Academy Award–winning animated short adaptation of his picture book The Lost Thing.​ His multidisciplinary portfolio includes picture books such as The Red Tree and Cicada, oil paintings,…