Tag: Portraits
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Spectral Birds Endemic to New Zealand Find New Life in Fiona Pardington's Portraits
There is an air of the spectral to Fiona Pardington’s recent photographs of birds. While they are actual specimens, captured in atmospheric light and exhibiting unique plumage and expressions, there’s something a little bit uncanny about them. Are they real? In a sense, yes, but they’re no longer alive. Some no longer even exist. For read more
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Johan Siggesson's Striking Portraits of 'Big Tuskers' in Kenya
Among African elephants, “Big Tuskers” refers to bulls that grow tusks so long they sometimes scrape the ground. Each one can weigh well over 100 pounds. These giant, ivory incisors continually grow throughout an elephant’s life, and males typically have much larger tusks than females. The bigger the tusks, however, the more vulnerable these gentle read more
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Aunia Kahn's Lush Portraits Depict a Playful Inner Landscape
“For me, it always starts with joy,” explains Aunia Kahn. The Detroit-based artist uses a handful of materials—gouache, pastels, pencils, and gold ink—to create rich, velvety portraits that evoke folk art patterns, surrealist themes, and celestial iconography. Reclaiming the importance of play in the creative process has been a powerful catalyst for Kahn, who had 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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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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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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Glamourpuss: The Beautifully Hirsute Portraits of Erik Mark Sandberg – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“Where does authenticity live in cultural society today? These systems that we have in place now for communication and information sharing, they have to be taken a bit with a grain of salt.” There’s a lot in Sandberg’s tool box. He has worked with acrylic and oil, etching and photoengraving. Frequently, he plays with characters read more
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