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Lewis Chamberlain: From the Pocket of A Ghost – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“If I have to change my work halfway through, that causes huge issues. I like to know exactly what I’m doing and I like to plan ahead.” For “Woman Falling from an Airplane,” Chamberlain built the scene inside a dark cardboard box. That’s frequently how he works and he will shine bright lights on different read more
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Tetsunori Tawaraya’s Fierce & Hypnotizing World Will Air-Fry Your Retinas – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Speculative genres like sci-fi are so cross-pollinated with horror and fantasy and the Western that the conventions of one frequently bleed into the others. “Ghetto Samurai” brings the genre-blending eastward, and nods to the cowboy motifs that became integral to conventions of post-war samurai films in Japan. “Story does not flow out at all,” Tawaraya read more
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Phantom Limbs: The Body Part Filled Paintings of Sarah Slappey are Tumultuous, Alluring, & Aggressive – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Beyond her distinctive imagery and thematic explorations, Slappey’s technical skills are also exceptional, lending an almost photorealistic quality to elements of her work. Her paintings have both a recognizable look as well as a unique feel. She produces the kind of imagery that is not just visually captivating but also stirring, the kind that elicits read more
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Personal Effects: The Art of Laurie Lipton – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The drawings of Laurie Lipton have bewildered and enchanted audiences for several decades. Each piece wields a cacophony of influences and experiences in dreamlike visions. When she talks about her work, whether from the 1980s or recent months, Lipton yields any specific explanation to the viewer. “Everything I’ve ever seen, read, felt, thought, heard… it 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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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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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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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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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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Convergence: The Art of Kent Williams – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Williams’ “1962” serves as an ideal example of Karnowski’s diagnosis. The work measures just a bit over five feet in height, and almost as long in width. It is comprised of oil on linen and features two sitting figures. The figure in the background is of a woman, she appears to either be putting her read more
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The Art & Adventures of The London Police – Hi-Fructose Magazine
From 2004 until 2009, Barrisson worked on the London Police solo and ventured out to other cities. “At this point, I was doing it on my own and I was doing it more illegally in every other country because there wasn’t that niche of the electricity box and the paper, but I would still try read more
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Metamorphosis: An interview with Floria Sigismondi – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Hi-Fructose: Your work has a very distinctive look, combining dreamily outlandish imagery combined with striking lighting. I was curious about your start, what influenced your aesthetics? You grew up in a theatrical household, how much do you think that shaped the way your art developed? Floria Sigismondi: I think growing up in the industrial town read more
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Antiquity In the Faux: The Sculptures of Kris Kuksi – Hi-Fructose Magazine
In Kris Kuksi’s “Leda and the Swan,” the mythical woman sits nude and slightly less voluptuous than Rubens and Cézanne’s versions of her. In this mixed-media assemblage, the mother of Helen of Troy is surrounded by cities that literally rise above her and more that are flipped upside down. Train tracks crumble. Armies go to read more
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