Source Colossal   “We’re going to make stuff out of beads that is going to take people’s breath away,” says Ralph Ziman in the trailer for “The MiG-21 Project,” a military jet that he and a transcontinental team coated nose to tail in millions upon millions of glass beads. For the past 12 years, the Los…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  While specific works of his may vary greatly in terms of content and style, a general description of Hungarian painters József Csató’s paintings would typically highlight his innovative use of color and form. He has an approach that to me resonates with the legacy of 20th-century abstract expressionism,…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  It is rather refreshing to have Los Angeles painted by a New Yorker. That New Yorker is Croatian-born Stipan Tadić, who paints his adopted home in a comic-book meets cyberpunk meets realism aesthetic that when he began to produce the work felt refreshing and new. So not…

Source Colossal   For Marianna Simnett, sticking to one medium or theme defies her interpretation of what art can be. She fights the natural proclivity of her audience to typecast her practice as one thing. “Trying to shed those expectations every time—trying to do something different—it’s exhausting but so worth it,” she says in an interview…

Source Colossal   During the Soviet era, modernist architecture rose to popularity as a means to express power, prestige, and views toward the future following World War II. Across Eastern Europe, asymmetric details, geometric rooflines, circular footprints, monumental murals, and blocky brutalist structures rose in defiance of pre-war classical and vernacular styles. In Ukrainian Modernism, Kyiv-based…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Lisa Cunningham captures city scenes and architectural elements beautifully in her pastel portfolio. The post Featured Artist Lisa Cunningham appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  For her first solo show at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles-based artist (and Juxtapoz favorite and past featured artist) Zoé Blue M. transports viewers into the world of a takkyu onsen—her name for a table tennis bathhouse. The exhibition, titled Hard Boiled, highlights a style of bathhouse that fuses sport…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  MARUANI MERCIER is proud to present Darkening Dusk, the inaugural solo exhibition of South African artist Kate Gottgens, at their Knokke gallery. Recognized for her haunting, dreamlike compositions, Gottgens crafts works that exist in a state of liminality—never fixed, always in flux, and at times elusive. Just as…