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Crystal Bridges Opens Impressive New 114,000 Square Foot Expansion – Hi-Fructose Magazine
This expansion increases the 200,000-square-foot museum by more than 50 percent, helping to expand on Walton’s vision to bring fine art to her hometown, and make it accessible for everyone. As with the original building, opened in 2011, Walton brought in Moshe Safdie to create space that would also pay homage to the natural beauty read more
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Dustin Myers is Perfectly Normal – Hi-Fructose Magazine
I TRY TO TREAT IT LIKE IT IS SOMEWHAT LIKE A PHOTO SHOOT, BUT IT’S LIKE A PHOTO SHOOT OF SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T EXIST.” Both caricature and photography play roles in Myers’ paintings as well. “I love the art of caricature, where you’re trying to highlight somebody’s features that make them unique,” he says. “A read more
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SHOHEI Ochiai Flattens consumer products into Surrealistic Childlike paintings – Hi-Fructose Magazine
There’s a dreamlike quality to Ochiai’s paintings too, as if memories of the game you coveted or the McDonald’s meal you ate have returned in a surreal way, where plastic products look as if they’re melting and French fries look as if they are about to float up from a squished, red container. “I paint read more
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Martha Rich Holds It Together With Nuts & Screws – Hi-Fructose Magazine
I JUST LEARNED NOT TO PAY ATTENTION TO PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY KNEW BETTER.” Rich says she loves to eavesdrop “every day, all the time” to get her phrases, with many of the choicest words coming from close to home. “It’s like analog Twitter here in the city; I can just listen outside my window read more
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Life & Death: The Skull Flower Paintings of Dark Artist Chet Zar – Hi-Fructose Magazine
It wasn’t simply a matter of the paintings selling, the audience was interacting with the Skullflower series too. For example, Zar didn’t set out to paint flowers and skulls as a means of discussing life and death, but his audience picked up on the subtext quickly. Life & Death became the title of Zar’s 2024 read more
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The Immersive Hairy Worlds of Shoplifter – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“So I think that my inspiration is human behavior and the positivity of vanity.” Of the significance of hair, she adds, “We constantly try to tame it and we have to make conscious, creative decisions all the time on what to do with it.” With a background in drawing and painting, Arnardóttir didn’t know just read more
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Amy Casey: All The World Is Green – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Casey grew up in the small city of Erie, PA, along a creek and pocket of woods ideal for a child to hide in, read in, or hang out with friends and chipmunks. Spending time outdoors played a huge part in her creative development, which began to ripen more fully in her teens. She confesses, read more
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Jeffrey Gibson: More Colors than The Eye Can See – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“IT’S COMFORTING TO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE THINGS GREATER THAN OURSELVES. WHETHER YOU’RE SPEAKING TO THE UNIVERSE, OR GOD, TO A BUDDHA, THERE’S THIS COMFORT THERE.” “It’s difficult to comprehend Venice while you’re doing it and going through it,” he says. “We did everything possible to use Venice to explore Native American identity, and to read more
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Baroque-style Painter Nieves González distorts trappings of traditional portraiture to exalt modern-day women – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“I BELIEVE MY WORK COMES FROM THAT COMBINATION: A CLASSICAL FOUNDATION AND A CONTEMPORARY SENSIBILITY FORMED THROUGH WHAT I READ, LISTEN TO, AND EXPERIENCE …” Over the years, González has excelled at upfront compositions: centrally posed women that confront viewers with subtle gazes, rendered in soft tones save for their flashy accoutrements. And from this read more
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Matthew Hansel’s Hidden Demons – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The finished work finally appeared on June 16, 2023, with the same title but major changes to the subject. All three of the primary figures now build a tower of cheese out of the water. The cheese blocks the grotesque aspects of the central woman, although her gourd breasts now rest on a platter teetering read more
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Happy 80th Birthday to The Pope of Trash: An Interview With John Waters – Hi-Fructose Magazine
LO: Does being part of a film archive at a university change how people might look at your work, like, now you have generations of young students who have been studying from your work? JW: Well, it’s bizarre because I got thrown out of every school that I ever went to, practically—except for grade school. read more
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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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The Embodieries of Michelle Kingdom Capture the murky tangle of our interior world – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“I am trying to capture the murky tangle of our interior world in a way that is both beautiful and haunting. My hope is that if the work rings true personally, it will resonate with others too. I am interested in exploring identity through the lens of self-perception and relationships, and how it shapes our 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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