Source Colossal   From larger-than-life double-bobble hair bands to a wall of elaborate braids, Tiff Massey spotlights distinctive Detroit style. Trained as a metalsmith, the artist employs the power of material and scale to highlight the city’s neighborhoods and Black identity and culture. 7 Mile + Livernois, Massey’s solo exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts,…

Source Artsy Shark  How can artists use their professional CV’s to gain business and increase career opportunities? Here’s a list of ways. The post 12 Ways to Use Your Artist CV appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  GRIMM is pleased to announce Still Moving, a solo exhibition by British artist Louise Giovanelli, the Manchester-based artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Still Moving is a collaboration with renowned movie theatre Metrograph in New York, and the artist will showcase new paintings created in relation to…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Often regarded as a colorist, this exhibition repositions Ann Craven within a deeper language that moves beyond her traditional motifs–moons, flowers, and birds–to explore the mechanics of painting itself. It will highlight an often overlooked conceptual framework, where seriality, repetition, and shifts in scale function as both…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Artists have long been inspired by the themes of the carnival and the circus. They often identify with the craft, the courage, and the sometimes marginal existence of circus and carnival performers. The carnival is a unique social space where attitudes and behaviors that might be unacceptable…

Source Colossal   When touched, the hypersensitive makahiya plant folds its minuscule leaflets inward, protecting itself from any potential threat. Florence Solis draws on this defensive response in an ethereal collection of portraits. Beginning with digital collages that meld figures and delicate, organic ornaments, the Filipino-Canadian artist translates the imagined forms to the canvas. Shrouded in…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  “No hierarchies are implied.” If you need to know anything about Katie Merz, start with that. The Brooklyn-born and bred artist has been playing on the streets both metaphorically and recently literally, for most of her life. Hierarchies would have got in the way if she let…

Source Design You Trust  Henri Thiriet (1873–1946) was a talented French artist celebrated for his striking Art Nouveau creations. Hailing from Épinal, he pursued his craft in Paris as a lithographer and gained prominence between 1890 and 1910 for designing eye-catching advertising posters for brands such as Omega and Dayton Cycles. Following World War I,…