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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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Giancarlo Politi, ‘Flash Art’ founder, dies at 89
Giancarlo Politi, publisher, art critic, and founder of Flash Art, one of the most influential contemporary art magazines to emerge from Europe’s postwar era, died on February 24. He was 89. News of his death was first reported in the Italian-language press. Founded in 1967 in Rome, Flash Art was among the first regularly published 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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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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