Source Design You Trust  Justine Florentino is a self-taught digital painter from the Philippines who focuses on portraits, character work, and commissions. Her work is built around people, emotion, and careful observation, with a style that keeps a traditional painting feel even though it is made digitally. Justine says she paints people because she is…

Source Colossal   Given the heat generated during firing, it’s rare to see paper incorporated into a ceramics practice. For Seoul-based artist Jongjin Park, though, the two go hand-in-hand. Park recently won the 2026 Loewe Craft Prize, a prestigious annual award celebrating innovative makers, for his striking sculpture “Strata of Illusion.” A rectangular shape with an…

Source Colossal   With bodies composed of ghostly ferns, flowers, and fungi, Molly Devlin’s fantastical and ethereal acrylic portraits invite us into a dreamy woodland realm. Her works tap into the beauty and resilience of living creatures, from a white bear cloaked in translucent butterflies to a diminutive mouse composed of different lifecycle phases of a…

Source Artsy Shark  Enter the dark and fascinating world of featured artist V Holecek, who creates work inspired by horror and the surreal. The post Featured Artist V Holecek appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Design You Trust  Jackie Bieber is a Los Angeles-based hair artist and stylist known for buzz cuts, creative color placement, and bold transformation work. Her Instagram/brand presence, Made by Jackie Bieber, presents hair as a form of visual art rather than just salon service. Her most recognizable work centers on buzzed and bleached hair…

Source Colossal   In Sydney’s Circular Quay, a 6.5-meter-tall installation spins, twirls, and totters amid a public thoroughfare. Titled “There, Now, Here,” the kinetic artwork is by the Brooklyn-based duo Wade and Leta and is in almost constant motion, thanks to wind, motors, and willing participants hopping on a see-saw. With black and white stripes alongside…

Source Colossal   When Craig Hubbard moved from Brooklyn to Venice Beach in 2013, he had an established creative career as an animator and comic book colorist, but it had been a long time since he had picked up a camera. The golden hour hues of the West Coast’s legendary sunsets reacquainted him with lens-based work,…

Source Colossal   New York City in the 1980s felt like a very different place. Imagine subway cars cloaked inside-out in graffiti and Times Square without the monumental LED screens. Evidenced by the likes of photographers Steven Siegel, Willy Spiller, and Jamel Shabazz, not to mention Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style (1982), a period of intense, new,…