Category: art

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  • Let’s Go Inside and Outside Bentonville’s Crystal Bridges Museum – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    A half-hour walk from the museum is The Momentary, an extension of Crystal Bridges, which is housed within a decommissioned cheese factory and currently features two immersive exhibitions: Mystic Parallax by multidisciplinary artist Awol Erizku and Dark Waters by photographer Kristine Potter. Mystic Parallax’s rich and exciting imagery blends Erikzu’s studio practice with the artists’ read more

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  • Shane Pierce Probes the Unseen with “Eerie Musings” – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Your work is quite painterly. Does your painting process involve layers of paint and glazing? No, mainly it is a process of thought akin to “ start with the finish “ . I attempt to start each brush stroke as the finish. It is an economy of brushstrokes but it also has the added benefit read more

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  • Remembering Master Pop Artist Keiichi Tanaami (1936-2024) – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    HF: What’s your strongest memory of your childhood? Can you remember the first time that you realized that you could draw? KT: It is too long ago to remember when I first draw. The strongest memory in my boyhood was the war, namely that was the time when the US air force B-29 flew over read more

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  • Adorable, with Teeth: Twenty Years of the Art of Ciou – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    My work had a “more is more” approach – perhaps even too much, but it always felt just right to me. In 2014, your practice changed, you moved away from using collage backgrounds, using mostly cut out pages filled with words. Looking back, any reason why you navigated away form this part of your practice? read more

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    Adorable, with Teeth: Twenty Years of the Art of Ciou – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Light is Everything: An Interview with Seth Haverkamp – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    I like the idea of blue being next to yellow to make green, etc. So if that falls into a category like Impressionism or something else then that’s cool. Does the restrictive palette force you to approach your painting in a way that you wouldn’t otherwise? See above. Lol. I’m not sure though. I don’t read more

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    Light is Everything: An Interview with Seth Haverkamp – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Gil Bruvel explores the Interconnectedness of Everything with his Wooden Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Sculptor Gil Bruvel’s work seems to be both modern and craft movement inspired at the same time. They are made of hundreds of parts; intricate, yet, when viewed form a distance, are smooth and cohesive. We’ve asked the artist to delve into his process and themes and a bit of his background as an artist. read more

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    Gil Bruvel explores the Interconnectedness of Everything with his Wooden Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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