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The Drawings of Femke Hiemestra Depict Fairy Tales with Looming Consequences – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Animals are the primary subjects of Hiemstra’s works, with dogs and cats slated as her favorites and thus reoccurring most often. In art, like literature, animals can challenge perceptions of reality exhibiting an uncanny resemblance to the behaviors of their human counterparts. Hiemstra explains, “I find animals with all their different shapes and forms very read more
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Kendall Ross Comments Directly on the Craft Vs. Art Debate – Hi-Fructose Magazine
From her dining room table in Oklahoma City, Kendall Ross knits brightly colored, intricately patterned sweaters and vests—some so large that referring to them as wearables is a bit misleading. Her textile pieces are often emblazoned with diary-like messages that speak of relationships, insecurities, and life’s joys. Sometimes, too, she uses her work to comment read more
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Child’s Play: The Paintings of Kayla Mahaffey – Hi-Fructose Magazine
On a very basic level, Mahaffey’s style is an answer to the question, what kind of art should she make? As a child, she wanted to be an illustrator. Children’s book art has been a big inspiration. She was—and still is—a fan of cartoons and comic books. Dr. Seuss books, vintage Disney, Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, read more
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For Frode Bolhuis, The Figure Contains Life’s Mysteries and Its Multitudes – Hi-Fructose Magazine
For example, hunched shoulders signify insecurity. Straightening up the figure conveys its power, and so on. The standing figure is to Bolhuis what the reclining figure was to Henry Moore: a space to which perpetually return to, full of mysteries that a lifetime of practice can’t hope to unlock. That’s what Bolhuis likes most about read more
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Kyle Cobban Draws From The Unknown – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Recently, Cobban collaborated with artist Won Kim to create a single piece that fused the former’s drawings with the latter’s acrylic and spray paint style. “We’ve talked about art so much together, and I’ve never really done anything like that before,” Cobban says. So he gave a drawing to Kim, who is known for his read more
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WAR TOYS: Photographer Brian McCarty Travels to War Zones & Refugee Camps To Communicate Children’s Stories When Words Fail – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Instead, when Paul Vester, Co-Director of the Program in Experimental Animation at CalArts, turned to McCarty and asked, “What’s next?” McCarty began to talk about WAR-TOYS. “He was the first person I told,” muses McCarty. “I thought he was going to say I was crazy.” Instead, Vester knew exactly how to help. A year later, read more
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Boy Howdy! Anthony Hurd Embraces the Personal – Hi-Fructose Magazine
While the obvious basis for a metamorphosis would have something to do with representation, Hurd wasn’t quite sure how to begin. Should he pursue more abstract or hyper-detailed approaches, as in the cases of previous work? Rather than start with an answer in mind, he simply went giddy-up, letting the process guide him towards its read more
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Very Strange Days: The Paintings of Jenny Morgan – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The root of Morgan’s work starts with the photo shoots that she conducts with her models. This is where the intense bond is formed between artist and subject, and that initial feeling of tension and exposure in her portraits is one that originates from this process. “Asking these people to be vulnerable with me and read more
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Weightless: The Paintings of Henrik Uldalen – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“It takes a lot of directing to get the photo right,” says Uldalen. He works mainly with people he knows personally simply because it tends to be easier to rope friends into modeling sessions. Uldalen doesn’t go into the photo shoots with a solid idea of what he wants. He spends a lot of time read more
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Worlds Collide: The Art of Mary Iverson – Hi-Fructose Magazine
While the inklings of Iverson’s new work were a long time stewing, she had to undergo several dramatic changes in style before arriving at her current location. “Where this series really started was when I was out painting Seattle’s industrial areas, and doing plein air realistic renderings.” Iverson recalls. “As I focused more on that read more
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In Blob We Trust: The Art of KRK Ryden – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Even KRK Ryden’s bathroom walls are hand painted in comic book panels. Elsewhere, a collection of convenience store-boughtnovelty lighters are positioned like circling sharks has invaded a brightly colored coffee table. The kitchen refrigerator, long removed from the premises to make room for the wall of mousetraps; each room, nay, each exposed surface or wall read more
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Uncanny Valley: The Oil Paintings of the Late Eyvind Earle Still Have A Resounding Influence on Artists & Viewers Today – Hi-Fructose Magazine
By 1951, when Earle was hired as a background painter at Disney, he was well known among the studio artists for his greeting cards. He rose quickly, soon contributing designs for Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp, then earning an Academy Award for an animated short. When he was given the reins to Sleeping read more
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Close Encounters: The Paintings of David Rice – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The Pacific Northwest is perhaps the wildest, most breathtaking region in the continental United States. With its combination of mountain ranges, conifer forests, lakes, rivers, and ancient sequoias looming over the California coast, the geography and texture of Wyoming, Montana, California, and Oregon return us to North America’s primordial past. It reminds us of when read more
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F. Scott Hess: Art History & The Dreams of a Reluctant Realist – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Also on view in Hess’ living room is “Past the Wit of Man,” its title derived from a quote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. At the forefront is a creature with a male human body and the head of a bull, naked and posed on the edge of a river. A monkey in a red read more
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Organized Chaos: The Art of Sam Gibbons – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Symmetry is an integral part of that world. Looking at a typical Sam Gibbons painting, I imagine a multitude of simple forces at odds with one another. Like one side of the face competing with the other, the right hand making a fist at the left, or two lines of identical children engaged in a read more
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Lisa Nilsson’s Cross-Sectioned Paper Sculptures
Surrounded in her Massachusetts studio by pins, glue, and piles of brightly colored paper strips, a visitor might initially mistake Lisa Nilsson for a reclusive arts and crafts teacher. But as her nimble hands purposefully curl the paper into shapes, and then magically weave the shapes into identifiable forms, a new impression emerges. Nilsson is read more
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Prudence Flint’s Paintings Capture Moments of repose that are ripe for interruption – Hi-Fructose Magazine
CS: Do you ever paint from a model? PF: Yes and no. Having a model in my studio is intense and demanding, so when I’m working on my large paintings, I prefer to be alone. I have to sit with myself and manage the internal voices, listen to them, become impartial. I have to weather read more
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Civilization is A Sculpture: The Art of Dustin Yellin – Hi-Fructose Magazine
As a child in the mountains of Colorado, Yellin found art in nature. “I was picking up sticks and rocks and seeing the multitudes of history in the rocks,” he says. “I always thought that a rock was a beautiful sculpture. Timeless.” He surmises that his road to art-making began “by stacking rocks and sticks, read more
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Meet Cute: Collaboratove Duo DABSMYLA Communicates through Color, Pop Culture & The Power of Piles of Cute – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The project did come with challenges. For artists who cross over into the mainstream commercial realm, growing pains come with the growing venues that contain their vision. “Because we had only ever built experiences like this for gallery settings, one of the main things was that we didn’t take into consideration television and camera angles read more
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Faig Ahmed Redfines the Traditional – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“I want to do with carpets anything that I can with all the instruments that exist, so no one can even do anything with them in the coming 100 years,” boldly declared Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed in an email, as if penning his personal manifesto. Recently, his experimental and, at times, sculptural versions of Middle read more
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