Painting News:
Before painting, Emma Webster first constructs dioramas with backdrops, lighting, and clay figures. What is created from those collaged maquettes are stirring paintings that examine both our own natural environments and world-building as a concept. Her recent show at Diane Rosenstein, “Arcadia,” collected those recent oil paintings.More...
At Coachella, the action contained within an 80-foot-tall wooden rocket towering over the festival became a star of this year’s visual artist line-up. Duo Dedo Vabo created H.i.P.O., in which performers dressed as hippos clanged and banged away at projects in a 12-hour, uninterrupted performance. This installation took a year to conceive and complete, with 202 designers, costumers, set decorators, stage managers, riggers, and performers involved. (Press images captured by Marshall Vanderhoof.)...
Raj Bunnags massive linocut prints teem with monsters, overwhelming details, and contemporary reflections. The Durham, N.C.-based artist, in particular, has explored drug culture in these scenes, using mythical and mystical creatures at war to reflect on our relationship to drug culture from all angles, including over-criminalization.More...
Nature has once again reclaimed the world in the watercolor scenes of Robin Crofut-Brittingham, whose lush textures reveal surprises upon inspection. The artist, whose work has been exhibited in both U.S. and Canadas, crafts new, mystic figures that seem to have evolved adorned with natures texture. The use of watercolors underscores the elegance of the flora and fauna she’s depicting.More...
Come visit Scott Musgroves Walktopus at the Hi-Fructose Micro Mega Store, now open.
Inside you will find rare items from the HF archives, limited run editions, back issues and Hi-Fructose books only available there. In addition, find intaglio and embossed pressure prints prints from Annie Owens, Femke Heimstra, Camille Rose Garcia, Dave Cooper,Jim Woodring crafted by the folks at Pressure Printing, strange hand-made toys by Steve Casino, as well as Mark Ryden collectables, one of a kind work...
Anna Park’s charcoal drawings are kinetic and absorbing, each scene embedded in crowd activity. The action seems to move between revelry and violence, the faces of her subjects distorted and disappearing. The artist also integrates varying sensibilities into these works and moves between cartoonish and realistic rendering.More...