No place to call home
What happens when what we call home doesn’t belong to us anymore? Mirta Vignatti starts from this question to develop a personal search among abandonments, [...]
Painting
Makeup Illusion
“People live in illusions” When she started posting photos of her mesmerizing illusions on Instagram, a few years ago, Dain Yoon pretty much blew everyone’s [...]
Queen of Double Eyes
Internationally renown as the Queen of Double Eyes, Alex Garant remembers her childhood when her mother drew faces so she could paint them with wax pastels. The artist [...]
Soul’s Choice
“There are times in our lives when we must make choices based more on instinct than intellect. Often, the soul recognizes its choice before the rational mind has time to [...]
Physicality and Psyche
“God ’breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.’ Then, in addition to his body and soul, he gained the life-giving spirit. There [...]
Breakpainting
Best known for his Breakdancing Jesus series, Cosmo Sarson grew up surrounded by Hip Hop, skateboarding, break dancing and graffiti. Normally, all this influenced his work, [...]
Out of the cardboard box
After he was born, Brom was kept in a cardboard box. When someone once asked him how he became an artist, he told them a bunch of lies. He had to or else they would find him [...]
Yes to Life
Much of the art Dorian Vallejo creates, engages a fascination he has with several ideas that over lap both philosophically and aesthetically. He’s interested in the [...]
Mask Painter
Populated with masks and skeletons, James Ensor’s macabre atmospheres are morbid commentaries on the human condition, his hometown of Ostend on the North Sea, Belgian [...]
Slovak Aura
Although she was probably the most accomplished woman painter after the Impressionists, Marianne Stokes is basically omitted from most accounts of women artists. She mastered [...]
