Creative Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

All images courtesy of Design Manchester This year, Design Manchester’s annual celebration of creativity and design is going online and is set to feature virtual reality events and 3D exhibitions as well as some in-person activities for those based in the city. DM20: Go Global, Stay Local runs from November 12-16; designmcr.com.

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Exhibition Fine Art Gallery Artist 79

Colossal

JULY 13, 2020

“small sweet pink lump” (2020), polyester, polyurethane, pins, and adhesive, 40 x 44 x 39 centimeters. The Melbourne-based artist creates amorphous artworks that resemble a range of four-legged friends, although their figures are enveloped with swaths of long, flowing fringe rather than distinct characteristics.

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Sculpture Color Artist Arts and Crafts 101

Feature Shoot

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Last February, a group of artists — all members of the worldwide community Black Women Photographers —got together in Los Angeles for a studio meetup hosted by Amari Dixon and Jessica Bethel. At the time, the artist wrote, “Black men, I see you and I love you in all your glory.”

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Exhibition Theme Artist Fine Art 61

Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2023

© Vonn Cummings Sumner American artist Vonn Cummings Sumner has revisited the classic cartoon strip character Krazy Kat in his latest solo exhibition, Second Nature, which is currently on view at Morton Fine Art's Washington, D.C.

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Art Artist Exhibition Fine Art 310

Azure Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2020

Here are 10 of 2020’s most anticipated buildings, finally seeing the light of day: 1. We’ve been told that 2020 is the year that patrons and curious passersby alike will be able to step inside this one-of-a-kind hotel. Ace Hotel by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects. The Ace Hotel’s Winning Hand.

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Architecture Gallery Fine Art Art 145

Creative Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Top image: Yagazie Emezi, Lilith, 2020. Here: Joshua Woods, Black Power, 2019 The artists were chosen by Sargent, the author behind the widely acclaimed photography book The New Black Vanguard, for the way in which their images “operate in many different contexts, photographically and culturally”, he said in a statement.

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Exhibition Photography Fine Art Gallery 62

Feature Shoot

AUGUST 16, 2023

Courtesy the artist/Bradley Ertaskiran Jamel Shabazz. He dedicated it to showcasing photographs by Black artists. The project grew from there: today, the hugely influential collection includes more than four hundred works, selections of which are now part of an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.

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Artist Photography Exhibition Print 46

Design Week

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

That might change with a new exhibition, Barnett Freeman: Designs for Modern Britain, held at Pallant House Gallery this March. The exhibition’s curator, Emma Mason, tells Design Week that the time had come for Freedman’s work to be given its due.

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Fine Art Art Exhibition Printmaking 54

Design Milk

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Contemporary American portrait artist Elizabeth Chapin , based in Austin, Texas, creates mixed media work that explores and deconstructs the ideas of nostalgia, gender roles, and the status quo. In 2020, she was awarded a residency in Florence, Italy, through Feminist Art Collective Toronto. And he is well named.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Media Magazine 83

Feature Shoot

JANUARY 2, 2020

Together, they have organized In Conversation: Visual Meditations on Black Masculinity , a new exhibition featuring the work of 55 women and non-binary photographers of African descent currently on view at the African American Museum in Philadelphia through Match 1, 2020. Can you share the inspiration for this exhibition?

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Artist Exhibition Fine Art Photography 84

UX Collective

MARCH 26, 2023

Florence Henri was a pioneering surrealist artist, photographer, painter, and pianist. After encountering Berlin’s avant-garde artists, she shifted her interest from music to painting, and she began studying painting in Berlin in 1914. First World War Exhibition at IWM London Review: Sights and Sounds of the Trenches.

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Photography Artist Exhibition Art 102

Feature Shoot

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Our international project The Print Swap has two new group exhibitions running through the month of January, each taking place on opposite ends of the earth. This month’s exhibiting artists hail from cities around the world, with home bases in the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Mexico.

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Exhibition Print Photography Artist 68

Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And while the Remai museum remains a beacon, a rich array of independent galleries and artists spans the province — with the community converging for this month’s much-anticipated Art Now Fine Art Fair. ″x7”, Alabaster sculpture, from Collector’s Choice Art Gallery, Saskatoon. ″x11.5″x7”,

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Fine Art Art Arts and Crafts Gallery 111

Feature Shoot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

‘Bleeding-heart’ ‘Burnt branch’ “Bleeding Heart Doves are named for their thatch of breast feathers that mimics a chest soaked with blood,” the artist Leila Jeffreys says. Jeffreys found her title in a line from a Rumi poem; the exhibition features photographs of birds, all with natural red markings.

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Artist Exhibition Gallery Presentation 62

Colossal

JANUARY 30, 2023

Photos by Gary Mirando The natural patterns of turning tides and changing seasons illuminate the delicate porcelain sculptures of Martha’s Vineyard-based artist Jennifer McCurdy. In May, she will also exhibit in the Smithsonian Craft + Design Show in Washington, D.C. All images © Jennifer McCurdy, shared with permission.

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Feature Shoot

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

© Kenny Germé The Godfather 2020, Highsnobiety. As We See It highlights the contributions of 30 Black artists, many of them photographers, whose work follows and builds upon the legacies of those who came before, including artists like Malick Sidibé, Gordon Parks, and Carrie Mae Weems. Photo styled by Edem Dossou.

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Feature Shoot

JUNE 30, 2022

The project started in March 2020, amid the isolation of the early days of the pandemic. Humilevskyi was in Kyiv, preparing to visit a photography exhibition the following day, when the news broke. The artist and his wife and child were forced to leave their home in Mykolaiv to stay with family in the countryside.

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Artist Publishing Publishing Exhibition 60

Feature Shoot

MARCH 14, 2023

The campaign is led by a group of artists based in the US who have ties to Turkey. The participating photographers chose the prints themselves, so each selection carries personal meaning to that artist. Dozens of today’s leading voices have contributed prints to this print sale fundraiser for earthquake relief.

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Print Artist Inspiration Fine Art 62

Colossal

AUGUST 16, 2023

.” This dream is rooted in a long-held desire for young Black people to be recognized as inherently valuable and significant, visualized through the artist’s signature glimmering embellishments. Both series, though, honor ancestral ties and emphasize the need to break free from outdated modes of being.

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Arts and Crafts Print Artist Media 69

Feature Shoot

MARCH 3, 2022

In November of last year, the curated photography platform Quantum Art launched its first collection: a series of cyanotype self-portraits made by the artist Amy Elkins over the course of 377 days. Mercedes Jelinek, Miscommunicated Secrets – Hoarding, 2020. In February of 2022, Quantum Art raised an A round of $7.5

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Art Photography Artist Print 90

Colossal

APRIL 9, 2021

Teeming with squiggly sculptures, site-specific installations, and smaller pieces covered in the Japanese artist’s iconic polka dots, Cosmic Nature is an expansive exhibition celebrating decades of Kusama’s bold, joyful body of work. Collection of the artist, courtesy of Ota Fine Arts and David Zwirner.

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Fine Art Exhibition Sculpture Artist 96

Feature Shoot

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In the past few years, our international project The Print Swap has exhibited work from more than one thousand photographers worldwide, spanning six continues (so far!) and all genres. A hub for contemporary photography, Matca is an independent initiative comprising an online journal, publishing project, and gorgeous physical space.

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Print Exhibition Gallery Photography 86

Colossal

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Self-identifying as a “fine arts photographer with a documentary foundation,” Walker was born and raised in Harlem and has worked to capture the neighborhood as he sees it. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member and support independent arts publishing.

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Fine Art Print Photography Presentation 101

Feature Shoot

JUNE 9, 2022

One artist, navigating her 40s and grieving the loss of her father, finds a way to show us what depression feels like. The nine artists chosen this year use different tools, media, and approaches to examine some of the most critical issues of our time, including climate change, systemic racism, and mental health. Calhoun once stood.

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Fine Art Artist Media Color 76

Feature Shoot

JULY 10, 2023

“Judika (Brooklyn, NY)” from Major Arcana: Portraits of Witches in America (2020). © Denny Courtesy the artist and CLAMP (New York, NY). Fifteen years ago, the artist Frances F. “Karen (Brooklyn, NY)” from Major Arcana: Portraits of Witches in America (2020). © © Frances F.

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Media Programming Education Fine Art 52

Feature Shoot

MARCH 15, 2022

In reality, the picture is an elaborately and meticulously constructed fiction, dreamt up by the artist and realized as a photomontage or digital collage. In 2020, suddenly unable to travel amid lockdowns, the artist found himself returning to his archive, pouring over the thousands of images he’d made across Europe and Asia.

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Exhibition Travel Photoshop Artist 62

UX Collective

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Somerset House’s exhibition explores the impact of skateboarding in the UK. Written by Craig Berry Designer & Writer Reece Leung – Vaughan Jones (2015) In one of my first ‘proper’ fine art classes in about 2011 we were given a brief for a new project; it was simply called “Passions and Obsessions”. The everything.

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Exhibition Fashion Photography Fine Art 108

Feature Shoot

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Courtesy the artist. Courtesy the artist. But who was she, beyond the adolescent artist whose haunted photographs are the epitome of American Gothic with a surrealist twist? But who was she, beyond the adolescent artist whose haunted photographs are the epitome of American Gothic with a surrealist twist?

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Artist Print Exhibition Art 101

Moo

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Tillmann Lenz is a British architect and artist. The cards, originally created to be shared at exhibitions, soon found an extra purpose. The time came for his to redesign his photographer business cards when he relocated to LA from Baltimore in 2020. “At Tillmann Lenz: small man in a big world.

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Business Cards Design Photography Color Coding 105

Feature Shoot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

From 2013 to 2018, the Indian photographer, artist, and activist Poulomi Basu documented the practice of chhaupadi in Nepal, listening to the stories of women and girls who were exiled for one week of the month during their periods. Untitled from the series Centralia, 2010-2020 © Poulomi Basu.

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Gallery Artist Exhibition Presentation 49

Eye on Design

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Much of the work we do as designers, publishers, and artists remain mystified to our peers and the community at large. As a designer and artist myself, and as someone who has been in and out of the realm of independent publishing, I wanted to lift the veil and ask practical questions to independent publishers about how they make it work.

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Publishing Publishing Artist Art 110

Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2024

It's easy to get stuck looking at the same kind of art, time and time again, in a kind of artistic version of an echo chamber. Founded by three illustrators in London and Shanghai in 2020, Caper has a knack for spotting brilliant young creatives who deserve global attention, as you'll see below. Work by Amao 2.

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Illustration Illustrator Freelance Freelance 480

Feature Shoot

AUGUST 3, 2020

In 2017, we opened the first Print Swap exhibition in New York City. Throughout the years, Print Swap photographers have exhibited in Los Angeles, Sydney, London, Paris, Berlin, Hyderabad, with an exhibition in Athens on the horizon. Stay tuned via our website and Instagram ( @theprintswap ).

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Print Exhibition Photography Artist 86

Design Milk

MAY 27, 2021

These are the tools and materials New Orleans-based artist Demond Melancon uses to create his Black Masking suits and his contemporary art portraiture series. CERF+ , a mutual aid safety net for artists, introduced us to Melancon recently, and we jumped at the chance to learn more about him, his work and his ambitions.

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Art Arts and Crafts Gallery Artist 112

Colossal

MARCH 12, 2024

At 29, Martinez finished high school, and in 2012, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts. The artist typically works from photographs of people he knows personally, rendering his subjects in charcoal and ink. Find more on the artist’s Instagram. Photo by Spike Mafford Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Fine Art Education Artist Art 86

Feature Shoot

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery; © Rania Matar. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Heather and Tony Podesta Collection; © Justine Kurland; Image courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Rania Matar, Yara, Cairo, Egypt, 2019; Archival pigment print, 44 x 37 in.;

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Print Color Art Fine Art 70

Feature Shoot

MARCH 8, 2022

Since 2020, Mark Peterman has been constructing worlds of his own using miniature sets and props, blurring the lines between fact and fiction. In the artist’s words, each photograph represents “a suspended moment in time, a void, where the unknown looms.” Explore their projects below. Mark Peterman. Jennifer Thoreson.

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