Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  After the collapse of communism in 1989, Romania was not only politically unmoored, but it also found itself culturally orphaned. The structures that once defined its creative economy, however rigid and ideologically oppressive, dissolved almost overnight. Artists, newly unshackled from state control, were thrust into a world…

Source Design You Trust  1st Place Winner: “Eternal Light, Timeless Rock” by Karolina Jurkiewicz The 11th Annual Fine Art Photography Awards showcased a breathtaking selection of Travel Photography, capturing stunning moments from diverse locations worldwide. This year’s winners transported viewers to remote villages, vibrant cityscapes, and awe-inspiring natural landscapes, celebrating the beauty and diversity of…

Source Colossal   It’s not too often that a high school art project morphs into a through-line in an artist’s professional practice, but for illustrator and printmaker Michael Ezzell, that’s exactly how his ongoing series The Junior Classic was born. Tearing pages from vintage books, he experiments with a range of media, compositional elements, and narratives…

Source Colossal   Spanning a gridded background of rectangular, pink trampolines, hundreds of gymnasts mesmerizingly flip and twist, shapeshifting as they tuck and tumble. “Trampoline Color Exercise,” a monumental digital video collage installation by Chicago-based artist Yuge Zhou, takes a bird’s-eye view of athletes at peak form while abstracting their bodies and movements into undulating ripples…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Valerie Pantalone celebrates forgotten wild spaces in forests and meadows with her paintbrush. The post Featured Artist Valerie Pantalone appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  I was standing over Meteor Crater in Northern Arizona recently and thinking about Aryo Toh Djojo’s work. There is something very galaxial about the landscape there, where the boundaries between us and the stars seems to blur into an almost seamless and endless potential of space and time,…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Marinaro is pleased to present Sky, a group of new small paintings by Ridley Howard with a particular focus on the significance of space. Howard’s paintings exist in a quietly charged place between minimalism and intimacy, realism and abstraction. His work often depicts everyday moments — a glance, a kiss,…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Our friends at GR Gallery in NYC have a few announcements: big announcements that we are excited to share with you today. First, Arcadia, a dual show featuring Glendon Cordell and Takuya Yoshida, is in its last week and will be the last show at GR’s current Bowery space…