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In Jessie Makinsons oil and watercolor paintings, the artist looks at how women are represented in both pop culture and art history. Melding backdrops and figurative forms, the artist toys with the contours of both, with dense and elegant results. Recent work on gallery walls integrates that sensibility in fascinating ways in these spaces, her women and mythological characters emerging behind hung pieces.More...
Michael Johansson’s massive sculptures simulate the runners, sprues, and parts that comprise model kits through injection molding. The artists public work, which are bronze and aluminum casts, have a particularly playful quality, whether simulating a firefighter starter kit or unassembled parts that would build a domestic living space. More...
Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s affecting mixed-media portraits recently returned in the show Always Felt, Rarely Seen at Almine Rech in Brussels. As with past work (Quinn was last featured on HiFructose.com here), theres a collage-like look to the work, though all aspects are sourced through materials at the artists hands. Yet, as the gallery says, there’s been a more personal evolution in recent work.
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In Peter Palfis Looney Tombs series, the mythologies of Ancient Egyptian gods and 20th-century animation synthesize with artifacts faithful to both histories. The Hungarian artist uses bronze, wood, resin, actual mummified animals, and other materials to craft these sculptures—along with his own complete Book of the Dead. For some, it may recall Damien Hirsts Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, though Palfis work, in concept, wholly embraces the absurd.More...
In the recent illustrations of Elif Varol Ergen, the artist dives further into the mystical with her feminine heroes and creatures, her own myths and contemporary lessons emerging. Since she was last featured on HiFructose.com (here), she released her first print publication, “A Sequence of Witches,” through Von Zos. The artist was also featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 19.More...
In Michael Dandley’s gouache scenes render astral—and sometimes, cataclysmic—phenomenons happening both on Earth and far beyond. Also characteristic of his work are unexpected hues in each painting, whether it’s showing degradation of the planet or explorative adventures.More...