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  • Cracks In the Levee: The Paintings of Max Seckel Liz Ohanesian
    Max Seckel's paintings are all about the details. His landscapes come alive with the messy signs of humanity: a traffic cone standing in a puddle surrounded by a weedy yard; a utility pole teetering behind a dumpster; streams of yellow tape banding around trees. Read more about the article by clicking above! The post Cracks In the Levee: The Paintings of Max Seckel first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
     

Cracks In the Levee: The Paintings of Max Seckel

24 December 2025 at 00:59

Max Seckel's paintings are all about the details. His landscapes come alive with the messy signs of humanity: a traffic cone standing in a puddle surrounded by a weedy yard; a utility pole teetering behind a dumpster; streams of yellow tape banding around trees. Read more about the article by clicking above!

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A Return To Feeling: The Dynamic & Emotion-Infused Art of KOAK

28 October 2025 at 17:35

"Color for me is very much about that initial emotional impact; it is almost like a precursor to the mood of a painting,” says Koak. Read the full article on Koak by clicking above.

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  • Painting From The Inside Out With Christian Van Minnen Zara Kand
    Strange—the sensation one gets when confronted with mounds of bruised, tumorous flesh, mingled with various forbidden fruits, festering produce, and delicious looking gummy forms. Such is the kind of disorienting cornucopia that Christian Rex van Minnen brings to the table.. Read the full article by Zara Kand by clicking above. The post Painting From The Inside Out With Christian Van Minnen first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
     

Painting From The Inside Out With Christian Van Minnen

20 January 2026 at 18:59

Strange—the sensation one gets when confronted with mounds of bruised, tumorous flesh, mingled with various forbidden fruits, festering produce, and delicious looking gummy forms. Such is the kind of disorienting cornucopia that Christian Rex van Minnen brings to the table.. Read the full article by Zara Kand by clicking above.

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Baroque-style Painter Nieves González distorts trappings of traditional portraiture to exalt modern-day women

5 May 2026 at 22:16

At some point, I realized I didn’t want to choose between the past and the present. I was interested in allowing them to coexist,” says baroque-style painter Nieves González, who distorts trappings of traditional portraiture to exalt modern day women. Her recent portrait of British pop star Lily Allen, for example, places contemporary attitude—and fashion—within […]

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  • Using Ancient Kilns En Iwamura Builds His Ceramics One Coil At a Time Liz Ohanesian
    “I never imagined being a ceramic artist when I was a kid,” Iwamura admits. “I had no interest.” But today, he is a ceramicist living and working in Shigaraki—a small town east of Kyoto and home to one of Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above. The post Using Ancient Kilns En Iwamura Builds His Ceramics One Coil At a Time first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
     

Using Ancient Kilns En Iwamura Builds His Ceramics One Coil At a Time

22 December 2025 at 18:25

“I never imagined being a ceramic artist when I was a kid,” Iwamura admits. “I had no interest.” But today, he is a ceramicist living and working in Shigaraki—a small town east of Kyoto and home to one of Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns. Read the full article on the artist by clicking above.

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  • Prudence Flint’s Paintings Capture Moments of repose that are ripe for interruption Clayton Schuster
    The women portrayed in Prudence Flint’s paintings are caught in moments of quiet, reflection, and impermanence. They appear fixed in a moment of repose ripe for interruption. Perhaps they are lying on the grass, or changing an infant’s diaper, or awash in warm water mid-shower. Regardless, there is a certain mood shared among her works. Read the full interview with the artist by clicking above! The post Prudence Flint’s Paintings Capture Moments of repose that are ripe for interruption first a
     

Prudence Flint’s Paintings Capture Moments of repose that are ripe for interruption

25 February 2026 at 17:39

The women portrayed in Prudence Flint’s paintings are caught in moments of quiet, reflection, and impermanence. They appear fixed in a moment of repose ripe for interruption. Perhaps they are lying on the grass, or changing an infant’s diaper, or awash in warm water mid-shower. Regardless, there is a certain mood shared among her works. Read the full interview with the artist by clicking above!

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  • Dustin Myers is Perfectly Normal Liz Ohanesian
    In Perfectly Normal—the exhibition from Dustin Myers that ran at Los Angeles gallery Thinkspace Projects in November 2023—the Southern California artist presented a collection of young characters painted in oils. Posed in the awkward-yet-endearing postures associated with school photographs, the characters’ exaggerated facial features reveal a bevy of emotions. Some are ready for their close-up. […] The post Dustin Myers is Perfectly Normal first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
     

Dustin Myers is Perfectly Normal

24 May 2026 at 00:51

In Perfectly Normal—the exhibition from Dustin Myers that ran at Los Angeles gallery Thinkspace Projects in November 2023—the Southern California artist presented a collection of young characters painted in oils. Posed in the awkward-yet-endearing postures associated with school photographs, the characters’ exaggerated facial features reveal a bevy of emotions. Some are ready for their close-up. […]

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Yuko Shimizu depicts intimate narrative scenes from myth, science fiction, and pop iconography, creating a visual genre all her own.

18 November 2025 at 17:44

Yuko Shimizu is a New York-based illustrator, whose bold manga lines depict intimate narrative scenes from myth, science fiction, and pop iconography, creating a visual genre all her own. Read the full article by Harrison Cook clicking above!

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Lewis Chamberlain: From the Pocket of A Ghost

14 November 2025 at 18:41

Incorporating a mix of objects—everything from old toys to dead bugs to simple paper constructions—Lewis Chamberlain builds unusual scenarios... Read the full article by clicking above!

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