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  • Symmetric Paper Collages by Haegue Yang Commune with the Spiritual
    Geometric, floral motifs characterize Yang's alluring compositions made from cut and folded hanji. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Symmetric Paper Collages by Haegue Yang Commune with the Spiritual appeared first on Colossal.
  • Papier Mâché Bat Masks by Jym Davis Take Wing in Bold Portraits
    Davis began making masks as a way to connect his work to nature, history, and the land. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Papier Mâché Bat Masks by Jym Davis Take Wing in […]
  • From Fire to Wind, JiSook Jung’s Ceramic Sculptures Animate the Elements
    Jung's works tap into the weather, dreams, and human potential. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article From Fire to Wind, JiSook Jung’s Ceramic Sculptures Animate the Elements appeared first on Colossal.
  • Frosted Works by Yvette Mayorga Divulge Issues That Are Anything but Saccharine
    The artist dives into nostalgia, teenage dreams, and how sometimes a sugary coating can conceal crucial truths. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Frosted Works by Yvette Mayorga Divulge Issues That Are Anything […]
  • October 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
    Looking to show your work or fund a new project? Find your next break in this month's opportunities listing. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article October 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants […]
  • Titus Kaphar Paints Memories, Family, and Grief into ‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’
    Kaphar contemplates memories and the meaning of family, community, loss, grief, and everyday life in working-class America. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Titus Kaphar Paints Memories, Family, and Grief into ‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’ […]
  • Honeybees Have the Final Say in Ava Roth’s Collaborative Sculptures
    The human relationship to nature is mirrored by what the artist describes as the "tension between control and wildness." Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Honeybees Have the Final Say in Ava Roth’s […]
  • Kazuaki Koseki’s Dreamy Photos Capture Japan’s Forests Shimmering with Fireflies
    Pulsing like tiny lightbulbs in the night air, Koseki describes fireflies as "artists who paint light on the forest." Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Kazuaki Koseki’s Dreamy Photos Capture Japan’s Forests Shimmering […]
  • Pia Paulina Guilmoth: Fragments of Illumination
    Our eyes evolved for light, but it is at its edges that we see most clearly. It is in the transformative glow of the sun’s predictable retreat and re-emergence where the world flaunts its beauty, where light meets darkness, that we begin to understand the shape of things. Our eyes may be blind in the […]
  • Lilian Martinez's "Women & Dogs"
    OCHI is pleased to present Women & Dogs, an exhibition of new work by Lilian Martinez. This marks Martinez’ fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Women & Dogs is comprised of colorful paintings set in open-air gardens and verdant public spaces featuring women who embody what Lilian Martinez refers to as “boundless femininity”—a way of moving through the […]
  • Nike: Form Follows Motion @ Vitra Design Museum
    With Nike: Form Follows Motion, the Vitra Design Museum will present the first ever museum exhibition about Nike, the world’s most revered sports brand. The exhibition will explore the company’s five-decade ascent from a grassroots start-up to a global phenomenon. The focus is on Nike’s design history: from the company’s beginnings in the 1960s and […]
  • Jennybird Alcantara "As Viewed from Inside" @ KP Projects, Los Angeles
    KP PROJECTS GALLERY is proud to present Jennybird Alcantara’s newest solo exhibition, As Viewed from Inside, an intimate and masterful exploration of inner worlds as an endeavor to fuse chaos into stillness.
  • DesignerCon Partners With Flatstock And Silver Drawing Academy For Exclusive Art Shows
    DesignerCon (DCon), the world’s premiere collectibles, art, and design megashow, today announced that Flatstock, Stephen Silver’s Silver Drawing Academy, and Betty Boop, in partnership with Nina Palomba, will be among the latest adds to the slate of art shows and programming for its 2024 event. Making its highly anticipated debut in Las Vegas at The […]
  • JIM JOE's "Practice in Public" is a Fascinating Exploration and Use of Public Space
    It's a process of patience. JIM JOE, famous in that he is famously mostly reluctant to take a spotlight or showcase himself in public, made an entire project in public. Perhaps the most public place he could, at the New York Public Library, exploring two branches located on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Street […]
  • "The Impressionists Were No Different from Street Artists Spray-Painting Graffiti on a Wall": An Interview with Alex Face
    It’s been 150 years since Impressionism transformed our world and how we perceive it. On April 15, 1874, a collective of upstarts including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot and Paul Cézanne converged on the Paris studio of photographer Félix Nadar for a group show that art critic Louis Leroy sardonically dubbed “The […]
  • Scout Zabinski's "Violin Theory" in Sweden
    Carl Kostyál is delighted to present Violin Theory by Los-Angeles based artist Scout Zabinski, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In Zabinski’s own words, Violin Theory is “the idea, or reality rather, that if you play a violin at a certain pitch next to an idle violin, the untouched violin will begin to […]
  • A "Familiar Feeling" and "Small Bites of Imaginary Reality" Come to La Luz de Jesus Gallery
    La Luz de Jesus Gallery is excited to present two exhibitions: Familiar Feeling and Small Bites of Imaginary Reality, both to open October 4th at the gallery. Familiar Feeling is a debut exhibition for local artist, illustrator and muralist Ashley Dreyfus. She will be exhibiting a new series of artworks with colorful, vintage inspired palettes and […]
  • Wendy Red Star: What's in a Name
    “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” During my conversation with Wendy Red Star, I kept thinking about Shakespeare not only because of the alluring way in which Red Star talks about her work as inherently possessing a divine sense of poetry in itself, but specifically because of that famous verse, which […]