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Veks Van Hillik Suspends Fish, Insects, and Other Objects in Surreal Murals
Source Colossal In Dutch Golden Age still-life painting, it’s not uncommon to be treated to tables laden with flowers and food such as fruits, game, and fish. These works were painstakingly rendered; one can practically smell the sea. But the flip side is the temporality of these items, as the painting preserves their freshness, but…
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Cranbrook Academy of Art Reopens Applications for Fall 2026
Source Colossal At Cranbrook Academy of Art, no two doors are exactly alike. That was by design. Architect Eliel Saarinen believed even the smallest details deserved thoughtful consideration. Each door across Cranbrook’s historic campus serves the same purpose, yet each possesses its own distinct character—a reminder that creativity is found not in repetition, but in…
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Vibrant Folded Canvases Form Garment-Like Sculptures by Susan Maddux
Source Colossal Drawing on her experience as a textile designer and her family’s artistic heritage, Susan Maddux investigates the relationships between fabric, painting, and sculpture. If some of her longer pieces evoke the folds of kimonos, for example, it’s not a coincidence. Tapping into both her Hawaiian upbringing and Japanese heritage, the artist creates vibrant…
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Featured Artist Gilad Ophir
Source Artsy Shark Gilad Ophir’s work invites viewers beyond representation and into a world of texture, light, and visual discovery. The post Featured Artist Gilad Ophir appeared first on Artsy Shark.
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Alpine1 Turns Minecraft Into a Space for City Design, Airport Planning, and Serious Creative Construction
Source Design You Trust Alpine1 is a Vancouver-based Minecraft city creator, YouTube educator, and architectural engineering student whose work sits at the meeting point of building culture, planning logic, and digital creativity. He focuses especially on cities, airports, and urban environments, bringing a real architectural mindset into Minecraft rather than treating it as pure fantasy…
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Artist Marianne Khalil Draws Places That Already Feel Like Part of a Story
Source Design You Trust Marianne Khalil is a New York–based background artist and illustrator with experience in animation and visual storytelling. She studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and has described her interests in visual development, concept work, and the relationship between narrative and image-making. Her background also includes art direction at…
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Portrait Sketches, Comic Book Energy, and Pop Culture Passion Come Together in the Art of Orbin Spinoza
Source Design You Trust Orbin Spinoza is an artist focused on portrait drawing, sketching, cartoon design, wall art, watercolor, and handmade card-based work. His visual world is strongly tied to pop culture and character art, with recurring attention to Marvel, DC, anime, and Star Wars figures, which gives his practice an immediately recognizable fan-art energy.…
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Dark Fantasy, Cyberpunk Light, and Epic Visual Drama In the Work of Philip Sue
Source Design You Trust Philip Sue is an illustrator and digital artist from New Zealand whose work is closely tied to fantasy, science fiction, and polished digital painting. He is also deeply engaged in teaching, with tutorials, process videos, and custom brushes forming a visible part of his practice alongside finished artwork. His images are…
