Painting

July 10, 2018

50+ Contemporary Artists to Keep an Eye on Featured in One Gallery Show

The Spoke NYC gallery is known for its striking exhibitions of exciting contemporary painting, illustration, and sculpture, and its latest New York City exhibition lives up to its reputation. Called Suggestivism: Resonance, the show features over 50 contemporary artists from around the world that are at different points in their careers; some, like Audrey Kawasaki, are well-established while others are up-and-coming in their creative journeys.

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June 28, 2018

Glow-in-the-Dark Murals Transform Ordinary Spaces Into Dazzling Cosmic Worlds

Hungarian artist Bogi Fabian uses her own self-developed UV paint to create mesmerizing wall murals that come to life after dark. By day, seemingly blank walls appear as normal, but with the flick of a switch, the artist’s painterly strokes and spray-painted textures start to glow. Her works illuminate entire rooms, transforming ordinary spaces into spectacular cosmic worlds teeming with spiral galaxies, glittering stars, and dazzling clouds of dust and gas.

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June 20, 2018

Color Sheets Booklet Lets You Take a Set of Watercolors With You Everywhere You Go

If you're an artist on-the-go, you probably usually stick to sketching when you're out and about. After all, a pencil or two is much easier to tote around than a set of paints—until now! Thanks to Viviva Colorsheets, there is finally a portable watercolor kit made with active artists in mind. This set of radiant, ready-to-use paint is packaged as a little booklet. When you peek inside, however, you won't find ordinary paper pages.

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June 13, 2018

Characters Step Out of Their Canvas Into the Real World

At first glance, the work of Japanese artist Shintaro Ohata might look like textural oil paintings, but a closer look reveals that his subjects are not confined to the flat surface of his canvases. Depending on the viewer's perspective, his colorful, childlike sculptural characters seem to live halfway between their painterly worlds and the gallery showroom. To create his mixed media work, Ohata places three-dimensional, figurative sculptures made from polystyrene in front of his canvases.

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