Source Colossal   The online art marketplace Artfinder connects artists directly with over 100,000 customers around the world. Founded in 2011 and officially launched in 2013, we’re on a mission to make original art accessible and a viable career for artists.  As we continue to expand in the United States, already our biggest customer market globally,…

Source Artsy Shark  Photographer Peter Nichols shares a colorful and diverse portfolio of images that tell the story of his world travels. The post Featured Artist Peter Nichols appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Yuichi Hirako presents a large-scale installation at The Modern Institute in Glasgow, comprising acrylic paintings and wooden sculptures across Aird’s Lane and the Bricks Space, asking for a reconsideration of our relationship to nature and offering a subtle allegory for current global environmental issues, expressed in his…

Source Design You Trust  Nicolas V. Sanchez transforms ordinary sketchbooks into miniature galleries, using nothing but colored pens and an astonishing attention to detail. His pages come alive with hyper-realistic drawings—a frog poised to jump, a swimmer frozen mid-stroke, or a quiet moment captured with breathtaking precision. Done entirely by hand, his work is pure…

Source Colossal   For thousands of years, flowers have been a rich source of symbolism. Dating back to the Ottomans, floriology, or the language of flowers, blossomed in the Victorian era when a bouquet functioned as a nonverbal code. The delicate sweetpea, for example, might have been given as a thank you to a particularly generous…

Source Colossal   As the climate crisis worsens around the globe, its effects are no more apparent than in our oceans and the communities that rely on them. Delicate coral reefs, for example, face stresses from not only rising sea temperatures but the residue of human presence—plastics, castoff fishing equipment, and other waste. Warm water is…

Source Colossal   In the emotional bronze and terracotta sculptures of Paola Grizi (previously), faces and hands merge with pages of books and manuscripts. Handwriting slides off the leaves onto skin and reliefs of eyes, noses, and mouths peer outward like knowledge and stories personified. Many of her works are scaled to sit on interior surfaces,…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  “‘Too Bad, So Sad, Maybe Next Birth’ was a phrase my parents would say whenever something was out of my control and didn’t go exactly according to plan,” Shyama Golden wrote on the subject of her new solo show of the same name for PM/AM in London.…