Art

April 6, 2018

Colorful Street Art Paintings Replace Heads With 3D Flower Bouquets

Self-taught artist Sage Barnes, known simply as Sage, reimagines painted people in his ongoing series of surreal portraits. Replacing his subjects’ heads with bountiful bouquets and clashing rainbow hues, the men (many of whom are self-portraits) and women confidently balance the weight of these inanimate objects and colorful clouds. Sage’s most stunning pieces juxtapose faux flowers with painted bodies done in a dripping street art (or graffiti) style.

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April 3, 2018

Life-Sized Wire Animal Sculptures Look Perfectly at Home in Natural Environments

Artist Candice Bees is a woman of many creative talents. Formally trained as an illustrator, her practice has since shifted into making wire animal sculptures. But she hasn’t abandoned her drawing sensibilities; instead, she bundles the metal wire into dense forms that have an energetic quality to them, as if she scrawled them in pen and ink. Bees’ work is informed by the countless hours she’s spent around different species of animals.

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March 31, 2018

Golden Paintings of Elegant Women Draw Inspiration From Artist’s Own Mixed Heritage

Vancouver-based artist Lauren Brevner creates mesmerizing mixed media portraits of women. Employing an eclectic range of mediums, her work blurs the line between cutting-edge contemporary painting and traditional Japanese arts and crafts. Opting for wooden panels instead of treated canvas, Brevner looks to the past when creating her paintings. Her ethereal portraits creatively combine oil and acrylic paint with glossy resin and glimmering silver and gold leaf.

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March 29, 2018

Artist Reimagines Canada’s Mountain Ranges as Vibrant Geometric Landscapes

Vancouver-based artist Elyse Dodge reimagines local mountain ranges as otherworldly landscapes made of colorful geometric shapes. Inspired by British Columbia’s incredible beauty, Dodge reveals that her aim is to “capture the vibrant beauty of the landscapes that we call home.” Using a bold color palette, the artist’s contemporary landscape paintings explore the contrast between hard and soft by highlighting the diverse shapes found in nature.

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My Modern Met

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