Tag: Artist

  • Artist and Skateboarder Alexis Sablone Is Inducted Into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame

    Artist, designer, architect, and Olympian skateboarder Alexis Sablone has been inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. The SHoF announced its Class of 2026 inductees on its website and on social media on January 15. The group includes 18 figures who according to the SHoF “have shaped the culture, progression, and global impact of skateboarding.” read more

    Artist and Skateboarder Alexis Sablone Is Inducted Into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame
  • Meet the Artist in El Salvador’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion

    This spring, El Salvador will present a pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the first time in its history, during the contemporary art festival’s 61st iteration from May 9 to November 22. Painter and sculptor J. Oscar Molina, born in El Salvador in 1971 and currently residing in Southampton, New York, will represent the country read more

    Meet the Artist in El Salvador’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion
  • The Colossal Shop’s 2025 Gift Guide: Gift Like an Artist

    The end of the year is quickly approaching and so is the season of giving. By choosing to shop with us this year, you’re supporting independent publishing and allowing us continue to share important stories every day. This year’sColossal Gift Guide highlights some of our favorite art and design products. From world-renowned artist tools and read more

    The Colossal Shop’s 2025 Gift Guide: Gift Like an Artist
  • 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

    Remembering Master Pop Artist Keiichi Tanaami (1936-2024) – 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

    Brett Douglas Hunter: A “Do It Yourself” Artist – 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

    For Artist Darel Carey: It All Starts With a Line – Hi-Fructose Magazine
  • Employee of The Month: Felt Artist Lucy Sparrow Re-Creates Chip Shops, Bodegas, Porn Shops, With All The Inconvenient Details – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    As soon as the show opened, it felt like I was on holiday because working the show is a piece of cake compared to the production stage.” Yet, Sparrow persisted. And although her work has continued to rise in reputation, the actual day-to-day process of creating the items that populate these stores is laborious as read more

    Employee of The Month: Felt Artist Lucy Sparrow Re-Creates Chip Shops, Bodegas, Porn Shops, With All The Inconvenient Details – Hi-Fructose Magazine