Nevine Mahmoud Attacks Traditionally Masculine Materials with a Feminine Flair
Nevine Mahmoud creates delicate carvings out of extremely solid materials.
Read More Tanya Merrill Creates Whimsical Worlds
Tanya Merrill paints in a trademark style where curved lines form figures and scenes that are as related to history as they are tongue-and-cheek.
Read More In 'Postpartum' Aaron Garber-Maikovska Gives Us Contained Chaos
This new body of work is a radical departure for the artist.
Read More Max Jansons's Paintings Tell Stories Within Themselves
The series that Max Jansons works in bear little formal relation to one another but find common ground through their references to art history.
Read More Entering into Corydon Cowansage’s Canvas
Corydon Cowansage’s work pushes the limits of abstraction and realism.
Read More Sharon Madanes Fuses her Passions of Painting and Medicine
Sharon Madanes artistic practice is always informed by her personal experiences, which for the last few years has involved attending medical school.
Read More Gagosian Circles Back To Richard Prince's "Dead" Heads
Richard Prince’s latest exhibit at Gagosian all started with the “dead” heads, drawn with a Bic pen in 1972.
Read More Turning The Mundane Into Fascinating with Melissa Brown
Melissa Brown merges interior and exterior realms in her eye-catching, textural compositions
Read More Genesis Belanger and Emily Mae Smith Gleefully Play Into Female Stereotypes in 'A Strange Relative'
Two of Art of Choice's favorites team up for one of fall’s most intriguing shows.
Read More The Characters in Ding Shilun’s Works are Regarded as Impossible Miracles
Ding Shilun (b. 1998) lives and works between London and Guangzhou. Shilun harnesses his heritage, current events and a global history of art to create large and detailed pictorial works depicting the absurdity of daily life. His unique concurrence of the mythological, the historical and the everyday allow the emergence of an imaginary world with…
Read More Nai-Jen Yang Evokes a Sense of Magic and Serenity
Nai-Jen Yang (b.1996 Taipei, Taiwan) studied at the Royal College of Art in London. To Yang, it’s about the process as she sees painting as a way to collect, preserve, and/or pack up fleeting moments in life. Instead of the final image she made on the surface of the canvas, it’s the experience she had…
Read More Cedric Rivrain
Cédric Rivrain (b. 1977, Limoges) is a french artist who lives and works in Paris. He began drawing at the age of 18, and started his career working as an illustrator for publications such as Dazed & Confused, Vogue, etc., and in fashion studios as a designer and illustrator, notably for Martine Sitbon, Hermès and…
Read More Ji Woo Kim Explores Themes of Identity in the Context of Race and Ethnicity
New York-based artist Ji Woo Kim explores themes of identity in the context of race and ethnicity while questioning the concept of home in relation to her own background as a first-generation immigrant. Through her work, she examines resulting factors such as cultural identification and social dynamics, as well as their effects on one’s growth…
Read More HyeGyeong Choi’s Paintings are Deeply Rooted in Romanticism and Womanhood
HyeGyeong Choi (b. 1986, Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. As a Korean woman, Choi has set out to defy what’s accepted in Korean culture, by incorporating body image, identity, gender and sexuality in her paintings. Drawing inspiration from nature and landscape, Choi has complimented her subject matter with magical and bright…
Read More Finding New Meaning in Kristy M Chan’s Paintings
Kristy M Chan (b.1997, Hong Kong) currently lives between London and Hong Kong. Her densely built-up oil paintings combine narratives of migration and displacement, all while depicting her unique style and use of vibrant colors. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from originally and when did art first enter your life?…
Read More Michael Hilsman’s Paintings Hint at the Relationship between the Physical and Metaphysical
Michael Hilsman’s work integrates and expands upon the formats of classical painting, in particular the genres of portraiture and still life. Through incorporating elements at once ambiguous and curiously emblematic—plants, shells, and feathers, pieces of clothing, body parts—Hilsman has developed a visual vocabulary that oscillates between naturalism and expressionism. His paintings hint at the artistic…
Read More Dylan Solomon Kraus is Curious about the Universe
Dylan Solomon Kraus (b. 1987 in Ohio, US) is an artist who lives and works between Berlin and New York, creating paintings using rich color and symbolism to channel his curiosity about the universe. Solomon Kraus compares the symbols that recur throughout his work to the pictorial language of hieroglyphs. The repetition of images in…
Read More Leonard Baby’s Work Deals with Femininity, Androgyny, Identity, and Feelings of Otherness
Leonard Baby is a New York-based painter whose work deals with femininity, androgyny, identity, and feelings of otherness. These concepts are presented with light, primary color, and subject matter reminiscent of the sheltered and privileged world in which Baby was raised. Baby’s paintings are inspired primarily by European cinema, oftentimes alluding to the fact that…
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