“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 Janis, one of the most important galleries at the time. So his work was accepted in a positive way—but it was strange work. It didn’t look like anything else at the time. It still doesn’t.”(...) Read More about Rare Works by the Late Domenico Gnoli (102 words)

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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.”

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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.(...) Read More about Interviewing Corey Smith – “Often imitated but never duplicated” (316 words)

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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 lust her, she’s far from lackluster with the most luscious of lips.(...) Read More about Gals of Rebellion [Reminder] Brian Viveros (100 words)

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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 inside and out.(...) Read More about Water-like Reality Linnea Strid (44 words)

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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, as a whole, make a single image (either a Campbell’s soup can (pictured) or a daisy), but also function as colorful abstractions on their own. Others include glow-in-the-dark details, bold, chunky shapes to match the pop graphics, and many are water-resistant. From $75 at Andy Warhol 15.

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