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…
Read More Lose Yourself in Rosa Loy’s Fantastical Realities
Rosa Loy currently holds one of the few spaces in the New Leipzing School filled by a female painter in post-unification Germany.
Read More Feel Music in the Movement of Brandon Deener’s Work
From an upbringing surrounded in Memphis by music, and a prominent musical career, Brandon Deener’s artistic path has (relatively) recently, shifted to visual expression
Read More Engage in Dialogue With the Diligently Layered Paintings of Oscar yi Hou
New York based painter Oscar yi Hou explores subjecthood and identity through his work
Read More Exploring Representations of the Self and Distance at Maximillian William Gallery, London
Maximillian William gallery presents the first London solo show from Texan artist Iva Kinnaird, I Would Love You if You Looked Like This:.
Read More Learn to Set Your Table Like one of Kate Pincus-Whitney’s Paintings
Raised in the kitchen within a close-knit family, P. W. is passionately committed to compose the dinner table as a theater setting
Read More Sink in Synchronicity at Roberts Projects, LA
The group show of nine artists is looking to dive into the unknown, the unexpected, and avoid being held back by preconceived ideas of structured truths
Read More Experience Physical Sensation Through Color in Doron Langberg’s Paintings
At only 35, Doron Langberg is quickly becoming a pillar of contemporary figurative painting.
Read More Meet Milo Matthieu, The Artist Who You’ll Want To Be On Your Fantasy Dinner Invite List
Brooklyn-based artist, Milo Matthieu presents an organic introspection of the self, understood broadly in the academic field and brought straight to the canvas.
Read More Experience Raw Emotion Through Jadé Fadojutimi’s Paintings at Pippy Houldsworth, London
Recently after the closure of the exhibition featuring Jadé Fadojutimi at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, the excitement of the solo show continues to oscillate
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