At first glance a photograph, on second glance a hyper real painting.
“He was a golden boy, always successful,” says gallerist Amalia Dayan of late Italian artist Domenico Gnoli in a recent W Magazine feature. “He wasn’t a marginal figure. His show in New York, right before he died [at the early age of 36, just five years after his work started to pick up], was at Sidney [...]
British hyper-realist artist JKB Fletcher, paint gorgeous superheroes themed woman in a very sensual way. “My Paintings address questions of whether photorealism is anything more than a photograph with oil based paint. Using ‘reality’ and sensuality to provoke thoughts and sensations of physicality and beauty.”
Painter, sculptor, photographer Corey Smith brings to our attention the faults and irony of the world. Showcasing real subject matters such as local and international concerns alike, society and humanity, in a most humorous and witty way.
Cigarettes are to Brian Viveros‘ chicas’ lips as heavily mascara’d eyelashes are to their eyes — absolutely necessary and essential to their fetish-fueled rebellious masochistically hedonistic lifestyle and look. Black eyes and bruises, blood and bandaids, cigarettes and scissors, bullets and bustiers, tights and tattoos, flowers and fingers, military and mickey mouse — love her [...]
One can say without a doubt that Swedish artist Linnea Strid‘s forte is painting water in a way that confuses the onlooker as to whether the piece they are looking at is a photograph or a painting. Strid must have studied water in so much depth [mentally, visually, and physically alike] that she knows it [...]
Taking inspiration from the king of pop art’s “resourceful imagination, restless curiosity, and skewed sense of humor,” Andy Warhol 15 a collection of new Seiko watches, draw on Warhol imagery to create a wristwear series that’s as vivid as the original artworks—and maybe even slightly more ironic . Most innovative are packs of three that, [...]