Abstract Art and Beyond
by Jo Toye Limiting the changes that you make from one painting to the next can greatly enhance your growth as an artist. Today I want to share why I believe working in a small format while learning, can yield big results, for abstract art and beyond. In my art classes and painting workshops, I […]
SWOON AND MONICA CANILAO “WITCH-WIFE”
“Witch-Wife”, the bygone term for a woman that practices witchcraft, is a light-hearted reference to herself and her longtime collaborator, artist Monica Canilao. Working together on the installation, they create an otherworldly panorama that centers on a sculptural haven containing dreams. These dreams were collected from Swoon’s Dream Reliquary where strangers anonymously share their stories. […]
ADONNA KHARE: A VOICE FOR THE WILD
Studies show that limited childhood exposure to nature influences the degree to which young people support efforts to protect the environment, so it appears that Khare is putting her winnings to good use. Her penciled portrayals of animals are not cute or precious but respectfully rendered, the many fine strokes delineating detail and depth. Whether […]
HIDING BEHIND FLOWERS
Her work is a combination of paint and collage and she enjoys the possibilities of repurposing bits and pieces of the world in her work. She was inspired to paint her Wallflower series by vintage wallpapers. On the series, she writes, “seeing a body without the face that goes with it feels voyeuristic and incomplete.” […]
GOTHIC PORTRAITS AND STILL LIFE
Her work is dark, and she finds her inspiration in “the turmoil that is so often a part of the mortal experience.” She often creates narrative in her paintings, but is also drawn to the purely aesthetic. Rachel Bess makes small, detailed oil paintings using classical techniques, but portraying the gothic and dark. Her paintings […]
AGOSTINO ARRIVABENE “HIEROGAMY”
Agostino is like a foreign exchange student from an enigmatic era of science. Italians from the same region as Agostino say he speaks a different language, a sort of “ancient Latin” one could imagine casually spoken today only at a gathering of Alchemists Anonymous. The title of his exhibition, Hierogamy, means the sacred union – […]
KUMI MACHIDA
Machida’s explorations of human relationships, self-consciousness and social awareness are expressed in each line—a void drawn within the silence of contemplation. Yet abandoned clues remain, cryptic signifiers, so that perhaps these portrayals of dysfunction, brutality, and displacement also offer a quilt of comfort after waking from a nightmare. Japan-based Kumi Machida depicts haunting biomorphic humans […]
ANDREA WAN WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
We’re huge fan’s of Andrea Wan, and have posted extensively about her illustrations in the past. We’re excited to share her recent series, “Exploding Heads.” In her signature quirky style, Wan depicts her subjects’ heads exploding, revealing interior worlds filled with creatures. The animals depicted are all extinct: mammoths, Tasmanian tigers, dodos, quaggas, mamos, pink-headed […]
CALEB BROWN
Artist Caleb Brown is one of many brilliant painters featured in our new book, Juxtapoz Wild. Below, the artist describes the human relationship to animals in his paintings and shares his thoughts on our contemporary connection to the natural world. Caleb Brown: The animals in my paintings serve as proxies for the natural world as […]
The Guardian – opinion section
Here are some illustrations for The Guardian’s opinion section with whom I frequently collaborate