"I have a hunch that any successful painting creates work for the viewer,” says the painter Ben Spiers. “I think that's part of the reason why it can be hard to begin the process of looking at paintings seriously..." read the full article on Benjamin Spiers by clicking above!

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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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he glass figurines in Lola Gil’s latest work are essentially still lifes. She owns each one, treasures each one. Holds and manipulates them to understand their qualities, their quirks. She depicts everything about them except her own fingerprints on their surface Read all about Lola Gil by clicking above.

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“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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“When I learned that there was a technique called honkadori, I thought it was interesting,” says Watanabe. “It seemed like an invasion or challenge to the idea of Western art and original works.” Read the full article by clicking above.

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“What I am advocating for is a type of grace,” says Matthew Hansel. “Both in the way we see ourselves and in the way we see others. I am celebrating the impossible mix of contradictory things that make us human, including the parts of ourselves we hide from the world.” Hansel’s tour of our hidden […]

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Cartoonist Jay Howell is "looking forward to the next thing, always". Click above to read the full article.

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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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Using striking symbolic language that seems to drift from subconscious realms, Arghavan Khosravi commands the subjects of her vibrant, sculptural paintings. Read Zara Kand's full article on the artist by clicking above!

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With a two-headed, dozen-eyed Mona Lisa, a disjointed Frida Kahlo exploding like tiny little pieces of glass, and a tiny Napoleon in Egypt sitting on a gargantuan, long-limbed horse, collage artist and illustrator Lola Dupre proves that there’s art to be done after art is… well… done. Click above to read the full article by Liana Aghajanian.

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ABOVE: Photo of Martha Rich by Andrea Cipriani Mecchi Any artist will tell you one of the greatest gifts they ever earned was the moment they found their style—their singular take on subject, creation, and process. But much harder earned is the gift of confidence, that ability to continue in one’s style, despite all the […]

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Embroidery as an art form is often overlooked as a craft, but that is part of its appeal to Burbank, California-based artist Michelle Kingdom, who uses embroidery to express her innermost thoughts and escape to her imaginary world. Michelle Kingdom’s unexpected approach to embroidery is like a painter’s, and some have dubbed her work as […]

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