Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  La Luz de Jesus Gallery is set to open the exhibition Lost and Found, a celebration on the medium of found objects, opening April 5th at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Over 60 artists fill the walls and floors of the gallery with unusual sculptures.…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  If there was ever an artist who likes to investigate the ways in which we make icons larger than life, its Los Angeles-based Julian Pace. The painter, we have loved showcasing on the site, print Quarterly and on the Radio Juxtapoz podcast in recent years, will be…

Source Design You Trust  Amin Faramarzian, based in Turkey, is a freelance illustrator with a background in graphic design and animation. He has had the opportunity to collaborate on various projects spanning a range of styles, including 2D and 3D animation, advertising, and game design. His clients have included well-known names such as Lego, Cartoon…

Source Colossal   “Aureus” (2022). All images © Jon Foreman, shared with permission Nature’s subtle irregularities and variations are fodder for Jon Foreman (previously). Using found leaves, stones, and sand, the Wales-based artist assembles swirling gradients and organic motifs that radiate across forest floors and beaches. He precisely arranges each composition by size and color, relying…

Source Design You Trust  The Third Vampire Metamorphosis, 1916 – 1917 The surrealist Polish artist Boleslaw Biegas produced a wealth of works in both painting and sculpture. The thing that really piqued my interest, though, was his series of incredibly strange paintings with vampire themes. Insect vampires, flying camel vampires, elephant vampires, and so on…

Source Design You Trust  Here are amazing woodcuts of various bizarre characters from “Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel” translated into English as “The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel” published in 1565. h/t: monsterbrains François Desprez was a French engraver and illustrator, little known today, who lived in the 16th century. He collaborated on several occasions with…

Source Design You Trust  Yann Le Berre, also known as Yann L’Outsider, was born in 1984. Introduced to graffiti at 17, he was drawn into the exhilarating rush of instinctive creation amidst the margins of legality. He honed his urban art by reclaiming neglected spaces, imprinting and asserting his artistic identity. Simultaneously, he pursued training…

Source Colossal   “The days keep getting longer.” All images © Peter Frederiksen, shared with permission Chicago-based artist Peter Frederiksen (previously) pinpoints the most ridiculous, exaggerated moments in cartoons and animated shows to dramatize them further into absurdity. Cropping a single outlandish action or event, Frederiksen uses free-motion machine embroidery to stitch stylized compositions that, out…