Category: art
Creativity, design, culture, inspiration
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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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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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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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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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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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Macro Verse: The Paintings of Cinta Vidal Allow us To Become Gravity-Defying Voyeurs – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Vidal, as such, hopes that her paintings have the opportunity to hang in every possible alignment so that viewers have the chance to see the perspective of every figure. This total devotion to breeding empathy is the foundation of her art. Her prime directive is not creating versatile art, though that is a by-product. The read more
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Reign in Blood: Vincent Castiglia Brings His Subjects to Life With His own Blood – Hi-Fructose Magazine
This past January, at the annual National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) show in Anaheim, California, Slayer guitarist Gary Holt unveiled a guitar adorned with eighteen vials of his own blood. He’d commissioned thirty-four-year-old New York City-based artist Vincent Castiglia to paint the guitar, and in keeping with the badassery and playful exhibitionism of the read more
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Opposing Forces: VICKIE VAINIONPÄÄ PAINTS THE GAP BETWEEN EXPERIENCE & HUMAN PERCEPTION – Hi-Fructose Magazine
She says, “When I was studying at university, I was really focused on harmonizing what I saw as two opposing forces: the human (organic and natural) with the machine (rigid and unnatural). Over time, however, I slowly recognized that they weren’t actually as opposing as I thought, and so I began to realize more formal read more
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Happy Crying: The Art of Rachel Hayden Balances Tension With Whimsy – Hi-Fructose Magazine
A fine balance of light, dark, serious, and silly, the paintings of Rachel Hayden are the culmination of her life experiences, expressed through peculiar motifs, alluring symmetry, and disassociated figures. There is at once something inviting, yet withdrawn, about this work. Her whimsical critters and plants don’t at all deflect from these atmospheres of tension—rather, read more
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A Return To Feeling: The Dynamic & Emotion-Infused Art of KOAK – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Then she might start some digital color studies, adjusting the whole image to a non-photo blue that will allow her to print out the work, draw over it, and rescan the new draft. The non-photo blue technique comes from Koak’s background in comics (she received her MFA in the medium from the California College of read more
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The Art of Pissing People Off: Controversial Artist David Cerny Creates Scuptures Full of Defiance & Humor – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“The authorities there mostly hate me. The feeling is quite reciprocal,” he says. Antiauthoritarianism is a persistent refrain throughout his oeuvre. His sculpture is circumspect toward the powerful. Historically, the media has been used to glorify leaders and the state. From Michelangelo’s “David” to the Monument to Soviet Tank Crews, statues legitimize and make authority read more
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Arghavan Khosravi Consumes The Subjects Of Her Vibrant Sculptural paintings – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Within Khosravi’s unique visual landscape, the influence of her native culture is omnipresent. Sprinkled throughout are motifs reminiscent of decorative Persian carpets, and symbolic emblems such as the pomegranate, which is considered to represent the original forbidden fruit, yet is also a sign of fertility, light, and goodness. Naturally, there are dense political metaphors which read more
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Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: The Art of Jess Johnson – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Johnson went to art school in New Zealand, but didn’t finish and says that, in some ways, her fine art career came later. “I was probably more involved in DIY spaces and the music scene,” she says. “I used to do artwork for friends’ gigs in music and stuff like that. I always really loved read more
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Murray Bowles Documented The Bay Area Punk Scene of the 90s, From The Inside – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Murray Bowles was, by all accounts, the very best kind of artist. For more than forty years, he was in regular attendance at punk shows billing up-and-coming bands in ramshackle and makeshift venues throughout Northern California (particularly in the East Bay). Honing his technical skill he developed and mastered a photographic style known as the read more
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Uneasy: The Hyper-Real Sculptures of Sam Jinks – Hi-Fructose Magazine
It can be a roller-coaster sculpting some of the figures, both emotionally and technically… Sometimes it means I’m surrounded by uncomfortable images.” While Jinks’ bent toward science and psychology make his art firmly contemporary, he’s working in a high art tradition of figurative sculpture that can’t be contained. He offers new light on themes that read more
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Color Theory: The Prismatic Tunnel Vision of Jen Stark – Hi-Fructose Magazine
If you’re able to outrun it, you’re able to see the past and ‘time travel.’ I’m fascinated by these types of unsolved questions.” And as much as her pieces function as transports, Stark is still in the middle of her own journey. In a 2016 interview, she mentioned that she had only began to engage read more
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Mark Ryden X Creatura – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Both Ryden and the collector who commissioned the original had been on the Creatura safari. In the painting, Ryden depicts creatures whose appearance blurs the line between reality and fantasy. Joining them in this leafy, pink and green landscape is a young woman who looks on with wonder at the peaceful scene. “The animals in read more
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Younguk Yi’s Journey Through Repetition, Fragmentation, & The Modern Human Condition – Hi-Fructose Magazine
In addition to the visual impact of his work, Yi’s titles play a significant role in shaping the viewer’s experience. His titles, often drawn from everyday life, are carefully chosen to provoke thought and create an open-ended dialogue between text and image. His titles add a layer of meaning to the otherwise abstract composition, suggesting read more
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Maud Madsen Explores the Gaps Between Memories – Hi-Fructose Magazine
There were a lot of learning experiences as Madsen searched for her artistic path. “When I came into the program, I didn’t have very strong painting chops,” Madsen says. “I ended up only drawing in my first year of my program because I only understood the principles that were being taught in my drawing classes. read more
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Raphael Silveira Melts Thoughts & Memories Into Paintings – Hi-Fructose Magazine
There is something contagious about the work of Brazilian artist Rafael Silveira, as if the zeal he gleans from transmitting vision to canvas are somehow captured inside those melting popsicles, rose mouths, and flirting birds. That zeal then ricochets onto the audience, nudging an upward curl upon our lips. Much of his whimsical work can read more
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