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

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

  • 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

  • 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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    Natural Hallucinations abound “When Two Worlds Collide” – 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

  • 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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    The Happy Hellscapes of Joe Vaux – 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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    Time Traveling with Painters Mike Davis and Michael Kerbow – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • 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

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

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

  • Beautiful Abyss: The Art of Janice Sung – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Illustrator-turned-fine artist Janice Sung’s figures seem at home amidst natural settings, whether in a lily pad pond or a garden, floating like a near-translucent milk specter. Her recent gallery showing at Gallery Nucleus in Los Angeles, the first using physical media by the artist. While you can definitely see the influence of one of her read more

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    Beautiful Abyss: The Art of Janice Sung – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Nonamey Recreates Teenage Hide Out Using Cardboard In Latest Installation – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    The resident ofyourroom seems to have more cohesive interests . ..? Perhaps! My room’s girl is involved with the Riot Grrl scene, the make-it-by-hand punk lifestyle. I noticed a recreated Stereolab Peng (1992) and Franc albums (1995) Was this circa 1999? or more like 2001? I would say closer to 1999 before the world ended read more

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    Nonamey Recreates Teenage Hide Out Using Cardboard In Latest Installation – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • 21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville Opens Eyes in the Ozarks – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    First up is a tour of 21c’s Fragile Figures: Beings and Time, a revealing look at intersections between vulnerability and power in portraiture. It’s an exhibition that examines the “complexity of class, identity, and politics in history and more specifically, art history. The works in Fragile Figures: Beings and Time are comprised of a vast read more

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    21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville Opens Eyes in the Ozarks – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Let’s Go Inside and Outside Bentonville’s Crystal Bridges Museum – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    A half-hour walk from the museum is The Momentary, an extension of Crystal Bridges, which is housed within a decommissioned cheese factory and currently features two immersive exhibitions: Mystic Parallax by multidisciplinary artist Awol Erizku and Dark Waters by photographer Kristine Potter. Mystic Parallax’s rich and exciting imagery blends Erikzu’s studio practice with the artists’ read more

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    Let’s Go Inside and Outside Bentonville’s Crystal Bridges Museum – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Mike Leavitt Talks Trash with New Exhibition of Mutated Fake Out Branded Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Your piece “Little Carbon Footprints’ is a Little Tykes Cozy Coup ride on toy, constructed fro m four upcycled wood pallets. It’s pretty faithful to the original.Did you have a Coup laying round to reference? Doesn’t every parent? Ours fills with rainwater out in the yard. And yes, I definitely used it for reference, measured read more

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    Mike Leavitt Talks Trash with New Exhibition of Mutated Fake Out Branded Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Shane Pierce Probes the Unseen with “Eerie Musings” – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Your work is quite painterly. Does your painting process involve layers of paint and glazing? No, mainly it is a process of thought akin to “ start with the finish “ . I attempt to start each brush stroke as the finish. It is an economy of brushstrokes but it also has the added benefit read more

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    Shane Pierce Probes the Unseen with “Eerie Musings” – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Remembering Master Pop Artist Keiichi Tanaami (1936-2024) – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    HF: What’s your strongest memory of your childhood? Can you remember the first time that you realized that you could draw? KT: It is too long ago to remember when I first draw. The strongest memory in my boyhood was the war, namely that was the time when the US air force B-29 flew over read more

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    Remembering Master Pop Artist Keiichi Tanaami (1936-2024) – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Adorable, with Teeth: Twenty Years of the Art of Ciou – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    My work had a “more is more” approach – perhaps even too much, but it always felt just right to me. In 2014, your practice changed, you moved away from using collage backgrounds, using mostly cut out pages filled with words. Looking back, any reason why you navigated away form this part of your practice? read more

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    Adorable, with Teeth: Twenty Years of the Art of Ciou – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Light is Everything: An Interview with Seth Haverkamp – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    I like the idea of blue being next to yellow to make green, etc. So if that falls into a category like Impressionism or something else then that’s cool. Does the restrictive palette force you to approach your painting in a way that you wouldn’t otherwise? See above. Lol. I’m not sure though. I don’t read more

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    Light is Everything: An Interview with Seth Haverkamp – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Gil Bruvel explores the Interconnectedness of Everything with his Wooden Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Sculptor Gil Bruvel’s work seems to be both modern and craft movement inspired at the same time. They are made of hundreds of parts; intricate, yet, when viewed form a distance, are smooth and cohesive. We’ve asked the artist to delve into his process and themes and a bit of his background as an artist. read more

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    Gil Bruvel explores the Interconnectedness of Everything with his Wooden Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine