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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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Black & White, Ceramic, And Totally Personal: The sculptures of Katherine Morling – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Other artworks, though undoubtedly originating in autobiography, point toward more universal themes. Undercurrent, for example, depicts two rotary telephones arranged so that each acts as the base of the other. One of the telephones appears normal, ready to use, while the other has keys exploding out of the dial and letters, similarly, blasting upward from read more
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Sometimes You Just Have To Hug That Walrus: The Humorously Surreal Paintings of Bruno Pontiroli Twist Our Relationship with the Animal World – Hi-Fructose Magazine
One of the surest sources of fun in Pontiroli’s oeuvre is the massive cast of characters who make guest appearances throughout his more recent work. A depiction of Christ is usually around somewhere, typically attached to the cross of his crucifixion, but usually having a good time while flying across the sky like an airplane read more
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The Price of Everything: The Art of Alvarro Naddeo – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Their presence is implied. They’ve built gravity-defying structures from shopping carts, stacked newspapers, and plywood. They’ve hung laundry and left crushed beer cans scattered across surfaces, and yet the real subjects of Alvaro Naddeo’s paintings are never seen. In the unsteady piling of trash (rendered in meticulous detail) there is an implication of adaptability, of read more
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Tina Rivers Ryan Departs Artforum—Rachel Wetzler and Daniel Wenger to Lead Magazine as Co-Editors
On Wednesday, Artforum announced that editor-in-chief Tina Rivers Ryan will depart from her role at the end of February. She will be replaced by the publication’s executive editor, Rachel Wetzler, and editor Daniel Wenger, who will now serve as co-editors. (The editor-in-chief title will no longer be used.) Ryan, a curator, critic, and specialist in read more
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David Henry Nobody JR Exposes Himself – Hi-Fructose Magazine
There’s a fluidity to his art, a sense that nothing is every quite complete. “They’re for sale, but it’s process oriented work,” says Brown, “so I keep the props and sometimes I develop them further.” In some instances, it takes several tries to best capture the image he wants to present. That was the case read more
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Birth of A Movement: The Art of Robert Williams – Hi-Fructose Magazine
In 1986, another in a long string little bands from the strip asked Williams for cover art. They wanted to use his 1979 painting “Appetite for Destruction.” “I told them what would happen,” says Williams. There were protests. A media frenzy. Chain stores refused to carry Guns N’ Roses. And, after the artwork was moved read more
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In Plain Sight: Isaac Cordal Creates Tiny Worlds Which Mirror Our own – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“That’s a serious problem,” he says. One which his little businessmen make evident. These sculptures often appear without fanfare, alone or in small groups, faces etched by workaday stress. They heedlessly follow their corporate bosses into the deep dark depths of rain puddles, and text madly as rafts of refugees drift by in gutters; they read more
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Secret Hideout: the Art of Matt Gordon – Hi-Fructose Magazine
A sense of place has always been important to the artist. His studios have always provided inspiration in how these fictional get-togethers are formed. “My last studio of fifteen years was built in 1852, and there is a harness racing horse track down the hill and in full view when you look out the south-facing read more
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Cayce Zavaglia & The Haphazard Beauty Found behind Her Fiber Portraits – Hi-Fructose Magazine
A fifty-year-old mom of four living in the Midwest, Cayce Zavaglia will be the first person to joke about how she has the cool factor on lock. Perhaps the anti-Instagram aesthetic of her life has helped release her from the need to care what people think about that other label: fiber artist. After years of read more
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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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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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