The best contemporary artists are able to see entirely different worlds around them while their feet are firmly planted on Earth. Beyond merely seeing it for themselves, they’re able to realize their vision for us all to marvel at, giving us a glimpse into their creative minds.
For an upcoming exhibition at Palo Alto Art Center, self-taught miniaturist Joshua Smith has once again created a scale model that...
Philadelphia-based textile artist Holly Guertin (aka Ernie and Irene) creates three-dimensional, felted animal wall hangings.
Renowned for its roots in activism, street art has played a pivotal role in promoting social change through creativity. While most street artists employ blank walls as a means to communicate their messages, Ibo Omari has opted for a slightly different approach. For his series, Paintback, the Berlin-based artist uses his spray-paint skills to rework scribbled swastikas into quirky and clever works of art.
Barcelona-based artist Gerard Mas creates reimagined Renaissance sculptures that depict how women of the 15th century might behave if they...
Beijing-based artist Peng Wei merges traditional Chinese-style paintings with rice paper sculptures.
The habits and interests we establish when we’re younger often go on to influence our lives in powerful ways. When artist Dina Brodsky was eighteen years old, she discovered two passions that would become permanent fixtures in her life. “The first was painting,” she writes. “The second was long-distance bicycling.” In her series Cycling Guide to Lilliput, she demonstrates how the two work together to inform her exquisite miniature landscape artwork.
Gone are the days when you had to travel the world to see great art.
Have you always wanted to learn to paint but you weren’t sure where to start?
Sculpture art has long been part of Paige Bradley’s life. At just nine years old, she became fixated on a figurative bronze sculpture in an art gallery window and later dedicated her artistic skills towards working with the yellowish-brown metal. In her late teens, she finally got to experience this time-honored material and has never looked back. Over the past 25 years, she’s cast hundreds of pieces in bronze.
Japanese wood carving artist and nature-lover Mori Kono creates impressively detailed woodland animal sculptures.
Porto-based textile artist Vanessa Barragão creates three-dimensional textile art inspired by the Earth’s coral reef ecosystem.
