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  • Accepting Their Strangeness: the Sculptures of Clementine Bal – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Similarly, Bal’s work in also influenced by her adult life. “My children also inspire me a lot,” Bal adds. “My characters have sometimes taken their looks, their postures, their reactions. I believe that there is an important part of self-portraiture in my characters.” In building this fantasy world, Bal draws from personal influences while creating read more

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  • Pop Surrealist Todd Schorr Paints the Unusual & The Arcane – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    “I think the general uneasiness that seems to have gripped the planet over the last few years has definitely crept into my work,” says artist Todd Schorr. A look to one of Schorr’s most recent works, “Gullibles Travels,” reveals this in greater detail. The painting is classic Schorr. We find an ape—one of his most read more

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    Pop Surrealist Todd Schorr Paints the Unusual & The Arcane – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Pedro Pedro transforms The Everyday into Vibrant Inanimate Portraits – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    At 72″ x 63”, “Cakes with Watermelon and Éclair” offers more than a mouthful of delights with frosting dripping off an array of cakes, most cut open to reveal their layers, cream oozing from an éclair. Comparable in size is “Plates with Oysters, Lobsters, Fish, Sandwiches, and Charcuterie,” a veritable feast where fruits and olives read more

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  • Ashes To Ashes: The Paintings of Fulvio Di Piazza – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    From funeral services to the famed David Bowie song to a British sci-fi series, the phrase “ashes to ashes” takes on a new strain of meaning with every use. With Fulvio di Piazza’s recent show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York, this metaphoric 360-degree view of life is reimagined once again. Ashes to Ashes read more

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  • Text & Car Crashes: the Art of Scott Teplin – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    The book The Clock Without a Face, for instance, is an illustrated detective wonderland that pulls Teplin’s art into the real world. Produced in collaboration with Mac Barnett and Eli Horowitz, who collectively go by the pseudonym Twintig, and published by the masters of art-and-life line-blurring McSweeny’s, The Clock Without a Face is a story read more

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  • The Unexpectedly Seductive Art of Julia Randall – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Raised in New York City, Julia Randall was surrounded by a supportive family that nurtured her creativity. Her art-lover aunt would take her along on frequent trips to museums and gave Randall art books as gifts that still remain in her collection. After attending an arts-focused elementary school and a high school that offered a read more

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  • Painting From The Inside Out With Christian Van Minnen – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Strange—the sensation one gets when confronted with mounds of bruised, tumorous flesh, mingled with various forbidden fruits, festering produce, and delicious looking gummy forms. Such is the kind of disorienting cornucopia that Christian Rex van Minnen brings to the table. Gazing into these luscious assortments, we just may feel tempted to reach out and give read more

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  • Something In The Air: The Paintings of Casey Weldon – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Casey Weldon’s work is like the house of mirrors at a carnival. Instead of stretching and distorting the human patrons that stumble into the labyrinthine funhouse, though, Weldon’s work entraps American culture itself, reflecting images that amplify, twist, and invert the dynamics we otherwise inherently accept in our society and its rituals. His paintings feature read more

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  • One Second After: The Art of Lola Dupre – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Born in Algeria, Dupre grew up in Paris, London, and Glasgow, with much of her limited, formal education completed in the confines of several scattered schools. A self-described “hell-raising-know-it-all” in her youth, she spent time traveling across Europe, indulging in a transient lifestyle she seemed well suited for, which came with its own set of read more

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  • Helena Minginowicz Paints Personal Works Utilizing & Depicting Disposable Materials – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Looking at Minginowicz’s paintings of human faces on bird heads, cute kitten pillows, and horses with manga tears, leaves the observer feeling like they’re watching a friend’s text thread superimposed onto a gallery wall, but, to the artist, that’s just a byproduct of observing life, these days. “We can’t escape the language of the internet; read more

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    Helena Minginowicz Paints Personal Works Utilizing & Depicting Disposable Materials – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Laurie Lee Brom Paints Beautifully Dreary Window Portraits – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Brom notes that she previously had painted portraits of women standing at windows—notably in her nod to Wuthering Heights in “Cathy’s Ghost at Heathcliff’s Window.” These paintings draw from Victorian and Edwardian imagery. “I felt like I had explored that, and that was more expected of me,” she says. In the midst of a long read more

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  • Gregory Hergert’s Blue Acid – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    There are new mixed media sculptures in your Blue Acid show. They combine 3D elements with 2D painted planes which are almost billboard-like presentations intermixed in the work in a novel way.How do you approach such a thing? One of the great things about making art is discovering something that sprang from seemingly nowhere. In read more

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  • Ryan Matthew Cohn and Jean Labourdette explore the Wunderkammer in “Mors Et Anima” – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Your work is obviously influenced by the concept of the wunderkammer- the cabinet of curiosities. Can you each speak to what initially sparked your interest in such a subject and how it influences your work? Ryan: I have had a great attraction forWunderkammer, since I was very young. I grew up surrounded by nature, which read more

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    Ryan Matthew Cohn and Jean Labourdette explore the Wunderkammer in “Mors Et Anima” – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Oscar Joyo Harnesses Color and Pattern With Latest Works – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Oh, were you referring to IN GROWN or OVERCAST? Yeah, I really enjoyed making those pieces…..Both of those pieces come from similar head spaces from songs, paintings or media depicting forms or phases more vibrant than the one before. Speaking of which, please describe how your chromesthesia (the ability to see colors when hearing sounds) read more

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    Oscar Joyo Harnesses Color and Pattern With Latest Works – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Natural Hallucinations abound “When Two Worlds Collide” – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Nothing pleases me more than when someone laughs out loud whilst looking at one of my paintings. – Alan MacDonald Alan, there’s a prevailing sense of humor found in your new work, not just in the elements , but in the titles. “The Future Doge” and “A King With No Bling”. Do you want to read more

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  • The Happy Hellscapes of Joe Vaux – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    The paintings that you create; they are so dense with creatures! There are fifty or sixty sets of eyes in some of them. DO they leave their lairs at the same time? I’m big on eyes and teeth. And yes, we hold mandatory meetings monthly. Some people might not know that you work on the read more

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  • Have No Fear, It’s Just a “Mild Apocolypse”: An Interview with Bub – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    I asked her to be more careful but she hollered something about her ‘proud heritage’ and tossed an SUV at me. In “American Kaiju”, an armed lass is caught gleefully destroying a suburban neighborhood, like a rootin’-tootin’ Godzilla. That expression of hers; she knows that we’re watching. It appears that she is more concerned with read more

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    Have No Fear, It’s Just a “Mild Apocolypse”: An Interview with Bub – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Time Traveling with Painters Mike Davis and Michael Kerbow – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Michael, your allegorical paintingspresent themes of disaster and climate change. While it is an existential threat, is there any hope for humanity, at all? I suppose my honest answer is I try to be hopeful, but I fear things are going to get a lot worse before they improve. I used to be more optimistic read more

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  • Beware “The Five Poisons”! – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    There are an endless amount of things in this dangerous world to look out for. This week I learned that the middle of the calendar year is something to add to the proverbial “list”. It appears that, according to Chinese folklore, poisonous animals emerge from the cold of winter, along with a herd of pesky read more

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  • HF Visits: Coleccion SOLO in Spain – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Recently, Hi-Fructose got to rendezvous with Coleccion Solo, an international arts project based in Madrid, Spain which owns nearly 1,000 contemporary artworks, many of which kept on display within their free, private museum space Espacio SOLO. The main impetus of the visit was to witness the unveiling of their brand-new exhibition “Handle with Care”, showcasing read more

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