Source Colossal   On candy-colored paper, Rhea Mack draws a world in which all misfits are welcome. The Massachusetts-based artist lovingly renders curious characters with three heads, flowers growing from their palms, or a penchant for plump, strawberry hats. Mack has a soft spot for these strange oddballs who develop organically, often springing from her Sunday…

Source Colossal   The disorienting effects of technology are on full display in the chaotic, action-packed music video for Corridor’s “Jump Cut.” Cut-paper collage, archival footage, and rapid, glitched movements dominate the energetic track and visualize the unending frenzy of contemporary life. The brilliant direction and design is by Winston Hacking, with Philippe Tardif on animation.…

Source Colossal   When most hikers are headed off the trail, Jonathan Knight is just getting started. The Denver-based artist prefers to photograph about 45 minutes after sunset, during “the last few minutes the sky has any blue hue in it and the last few minutes you can see without an external light source,” he shares.…

Source Artsy Shark  Enjoy this delicate and stunning floral collection by artist Sally Cooper, who shares a journey of discovery. The post Featured Artist Sally Cooper appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Julie Curtiss does this thing with painting in which she speaks of the contemporary political climate without a hint of an obvious visual to grasp onto for context. She is sneaky in that way, and one of the best painters of the last decade to emerge in…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Pilar Corrias is pleased to present Fireflies Under Fever Sky, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Pierre Knop. For his first solo show with the gallery, Knop plunges the viewer into kaleidoscopic landscapes – lush forests, imposing mountain ranges, chocolate-box village scenes and dramatic seascapes – that…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Sean Norvet is a tour de force, a painting wizard with the type of skill and imagination that is the basis of why this magazine was founded 31 years ago. Pop-culture chaos, the infiltration of icons into our subconscious, the mass explosion of visual and product consumption…

Source Colossal   For Anna Ortiz, the borderlands are a rich source for the uncanny. The Mexican-American artist (previously) was raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, but visited her family in Guadalajara often. There, she was immersed in her ancestral landscape and introduced to her family’s history as artists—her grandfather painted portraits, while her aunt was a professional…