Source Design You Trust  Jardel Vieira, a Brazilian illustrator and graphic designer, has a gift for turning simplicity into powerful storytelling. His bold shapes and striking contrasts reflect years of experience, delivering a minimalist style that grabs attention while leaving room for thought. More: Instagram Source

Source Colossal   On expanses of beige linen, Melissa Calderón immortalizes pockets of a neighborhood or domestic space. Combining imagery from her childhood in the Bronx with her family’s native Puerto Rico, the artist translates familiar landscapes and sights into vivid embroideries, preserving her memories in thread. The intimate compositions capture how neighborhoods and communities change,…

Source Artsy Shark  Artists Safir and Rifas present an incredible portfolio of dark and dreamlike figurative paintings. Visit their website to see more of their art.     We are sisters and artists, painters of the world as we see it—sacred and profane, ugly yet beautiful, but also full of life and death. Even though…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Hilda Palafox is not merely painting; she’s crafting a dialogue—a response to both the beauty and the challenges present in her surroundings. When we first met her, years ago, it was about the mural as a means to communicate, presenting a nuanced but universal language as a…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Gladstone Gallery presents World Without End, an exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Aaron Gilbert. Known for his paintings that probe the distance between individuals and their communities, the private and the public, and the real and the conjured, Gilbert imagines the personal narratives that quietly unfold…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Victoria Miro is delighted to present new paintings by Inka Essenhigh. The New York-based artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery comprises a body of work completed during the past year, featuring botanical, landscape and figurative motifs poised between an exuberant exterior world and an energetic interior consciousness.

Source Colossal   Cities are constantly in flux, but Keita Morimoto (previously) invites us to linger in their transitions a little longer. The artist renders corner stores, vending machines, and lampposts that illuminate spaces that might otherwise go unnoticed. Either unoccupied or inhabited by just one or two people, Morimoto’s scenes are dimly lit but not…

Source Colossal   In Nahuatl, an Aztec language indigenous to Mesoamerica still spoken by more than a million people throughout Mexico, kauani means “to flourish.” Designers Inés Quezada and Inés Llasera, co-founders of Tornasol Studio, conceived of a series of luminaires inspired by native flora in celebration of the region’s rich botanic diversity. The ongoing series,…