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  • Can a Hotel Be a Contemporary Art Museum, Too? An Interview with 21c Curator Alice Gray Stites – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Above: a view of a Nightwatch room, and an oil painting by Ruth Owens on display at 21c Oh, pardon my coastal ignorance! You have just announced the Nightwatch immersive Suites. It is described as a “sleep-in installation” and a ‘sensory experience where “The moving light uncovers the animated magic hidden within the forest, reminding read more

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    Can a Hotel Be a Contemporary Art Museum, Too? An Interview with 21c Curator Alice Gray Stites – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Rick Baker Takes On Death and Monsters In First Solo Art Show – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Yes, I suppose I’m responsible for a lot of childhood traumas… (Above: Popeye 3-D print digitally sculpted by Rick Baker in Z brush, Halloween costumes for Rick Baker‘s daughters latex masks sculpted traditionally by Rick Baker/Costumes by Rick and Silvia Baker, “Thorn”,acrylic on canvas and “Max IlLa”, acrylic on canvas) Do you feel a sense read more

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    Rick Baker Takes On Death and Monsters In First Solo Art Show – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Brett Douglas Hunter: A “Do It Yourself” Artist – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    (Above, Top-Bottom: Creature sculptures at Creature Camp, Ashland City, TN, 2020 to present, photo credit Monica Murray, Even more creature sculptures at Creature Camp, Ashland City, TN, 2020 to present, photo credit Monica Murray, “Pink Polycephalupagus”, in studio at Soft Junk, Nashville, TN, 2022, photo by Monica Murray) Since 2018, Hunter has been making work read more

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    Brett Douglas Hunter: A “Do It Yourself” Artist – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Midnite Rooms: The Art of Matthew Palladino – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    “I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF IT, THE ACT OF PAINTING USING WATERCOLORS ON PAPER, THE BLEEDING FLOWS, THE REACTION OF THE PAPER, THE LUSH BEAUTY OF THE BRUSHES, THE SPEED OF THE MEDIUM AND ITS UNFORGIVING-NESS I FOUND VERY ALLURING.” His unusual compositions tend to disobey laws of time and space. Considering read more

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    Midnite Rooms: The Art of Matthew Palladino – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • For Artist Darel Carey: It All Starts With a Line – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    THIS CAN BE THE PIECE ITSELF,” HE REALIZED OF THE GRID TAPE. “IT DOESN’T SOLELY HAVE TO BE IN THE BACKGROUND.” “How is this going to be experienced? That’s the main thing I’m thinking about when making a piece,” Carey said. He hopes that viewers encounter his art and are changed, even in a small read more

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    For Artist Darel Carey: It All Starts With a Line – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • In The Fanciful Depictions of Magda Kirk Massive Deity-Like Characters Reign Over An Inter-dimensional World – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    In the fanciful depictions of Magda Kirk, massive deity-like characters reign over an interdimensional world comprised of emotion, self-awareness, and unlimited possibility. They are unabashedly seen strutting, stretching, flexing, or idly reclining in blissful states of reverie. In this realm, hues of fuchsias, purples, and golds radiate from within and without her subjects, spreading delicious read more

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    In The Fanciful Depictions of Magda Kirk Massive Deity-Like Characters Reign Over An Inter-dimensional World – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Subtle: The Graphite Drawings of Ozabu – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Ozabu captures the minutiae of the body– the lines in the palm of a hand, the slight crease in the middle of the rib cage– but she leaves the emotions conveyed, and the story told, up to the viewer. What’s stunning about Ozabu’s portraits is the way she connects humanity and nature. You’ll notice the read more

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    Subtle: The Graphite Drawings of Ozabu – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • It’s About Time: Bisa Butler Reconstructs The Historical Narrative – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    When you look at my work, you are looking at what I want to show you, and how I feel that black people want to be seen. So, if you were to go into a home, and ask to see a family photo album, those are the type of photos you are going to see. read more

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    It’s About Time: Bisa Butler Reconstructs The Historical Narrative – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Climactic! Mu Pan’s Massive Battle Scenes Are Teeming With Humor and An Introspective Bleakness – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    …my works are personal, and the only person [who] needs to understand them is myself.” When pressed about whether viewers tend to have misconceptions about the political nature or general point of his works, he’s equally divorced from the process: “I don’t mind it, my works are personal, and the only person needs to understand read more

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    Climactic! Mu Pan’s Massive Battle Scenes Are Teeming With Humor and An Introspective Bleakness – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Chaotic Good: An Interview with Laura Laine – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Laura Laine is a Finland-based artist whose spectral illustrations bridge the worlds of fashion, art, and the surreal. Her work has adorned the pages of Vogue, Elle, and The New York Times. But she didn’t always want to be an artist. Growing up both of her parents were artists who brought her up in an read more

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    Chaotic Good: An Interview with Laura Laine – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Good Pain: The Broken Skate Deck Sculptures of Haroshi – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    It’s quite exciting for me to see how unskilled skaters could make tricks, somehow much more [exciting] than to see skilled skaters make tricks easily. Haroshi attributes much of his success to the lessons learned through the DIY ethos of skateboarding. He recalls attempting to master his first ollie. At first, the idea of jumping read more

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    Good Pain: The Broken Skate Deck Sculptures of Haroshi – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Predictive Dreams: The Sculptures of Katsuyo Ayoki – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    The decorativeness quoted from other ornamental art in my works are not for challenging; it is for my own expression as a fine artist.” But compared to Hirst and Koons, Katsuyo’s work seems a little anachronistic, a little awkward in a generation accustomed to justifying every fl ourish, embellishment and technical sympathy to the enforcers read more

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    Predictive Dreams: The Sculptures of Katsuyo Ayoki – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Okuda: Full Color Chaos – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    In 2014, Okuda was introduced to the Santa Barbara church in Asturias. Originally built in 1912 as a place of worship for the workers of an explosives factory in the northern Spanish town of Llanera, the building was abandoned after the Spanish Civil War. Nearly a century later, a local skateboarding collective in Spain known read more

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    Okuda: Full Color Chaos – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • A Wild Night Out: The Art of Anna Park – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    charcoal allows me to see my ideas come to life as soon as I conceive them… “I feel as though the reason why I keep gravitating towards those mediums is because the immediacy of charcoal allows me to see my ideas come to life as soon as I conceive them,” Park says. “I sometimes make read more

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    A Wild Night Out: The Art of Anna Park – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • The Evolution of the Hand-Painted Movie Posters of Ghana – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    (Above: Aliens movie poster with a winged Giger Xenomorph. Photo courtesy of Ernie Wolfe. From the book Extreme Canvas, Death Wish 4 becomes a monster movie in this hand-painted poster. Photo courtesy Brian Chankin and Deadly Prey Gallery, Jurassic Park poster depicting a “bonus scene” not shown in the movie. Photo courtesy Brian Chankin and read more

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    The Evolution of the Hand-Painted Movie Posters of Ghana – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Free Form: The Art and Adventures of Erik Parker – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    I like to back off and let a painting breathe, rather than make a move for the sake of making a move.” CS: Is that a typical way for you to work? EP: I think so. I’m an additive kind of artist. I keep adding, I don’t really subtract. If I’m going to put something read more

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    Free Form: The Art and Adventures of Erik Parker – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Amy Sherald’s American Sublime – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Sherald bends this arc inward. She shows that the interior life of the human creature is as deep and profound as anything we meet in the natural world or try to achieve in society. Everything that surrounds the skin is colorful, or at least stark. A black and white houndstooth print, for instance, lacks color read more

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    Amy Sherald’s American Sublime – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Capturing the Minotaur: The Art of Laura Ball – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    … it was an elephant, made up of other animals bound together by some kind of magnetic gravitational force.” KA: Do you have a plan when you start a piece or is it something that happens organically as you are working? LB: When I first made the creatures they were very complicated for me to read more

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    Capturing the Minotaur: The Art of Laura Ball – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Teaching robots to map large environments

    A robot searching for workers trapped in a partially collapsed mine shaft must rapidly generate a map of the scene and identify its location within that scene as it navigates the treacherous terrain. Researchers have recently started building powerful machine-learning models to perform this complex task using only images from the robot’s onboard cameras, but read more

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    Teaching robots to map large environments

  • Amber Cowan Reshapes History with Her Glass Works – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    It’s also easy to get sentimental with Cowan’s work—and not only for those who remember the pieces from childhood, though that is a common experience. “I am interested in the history of the material and like to tell those stories with the pieces,” Cowan says. “I don’t necessarily think the viewer needs to know the read more

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    Amber Cowan Reshapes History with Her Glass Works – Hi-Fructose Magazine