Signs of the Time by Walead Beshty

"In this intriguing sculptural series spanning 2005 to 2014, LA-based artist Walead Beshty packaged his artworks in FedEx boxes and shipped them across the country to exhibitions and galleries. But unlike most artists who utilize every bit of care to protect and pad their artwork from the inevitable rough handling of mail carriers, Beshty designed his pieces to break. For his famous FedEx works he constructed laminate glass objects that fit seamlessly within the dimensions of standard size shipping boxes. Through the “normal” handling the objects would inevitably crack and shatter and it was up to curators and gallerists to carefully remove each piece for display. The fragile volumes were then given titles that specifically mention the date, tracking number, and box size of shipment."

Art of Andrew McIntosh

Scottish painter Andrew McIntosh  takes ubiquitous structures often abandoned on rural homesteads like travel campers or sheds and reveals hidden worlds within: radiant sunsets and expansive skies that appear like portals into another place. Drawing inspiration from a childhood spent in the Highlands of Scotland, the London-based painter gives unexpected life to derelict buildings set against the backdrop of mist-filled woods and frozen mountains.

Embroidery Art of Ana Teresa Barboza

Peruvian young artist Ana Teresa Barboza use embroidery on photography to create beautiful and bizarre artwork

Schoony

Schoony is a leading urban artist whose unique aesthetic and technical brilliance has brought the art world by storm. His hyper realistic sculptures question war, mortality and contemporary society.

His most iconic life cast sculpture “Boy Soldier” first unveiled outside the houses of parliament as an anti-war protest, is now a household name, featured in Hollywood blockbusters and collected internationally. Since then Schoony has experimented with many different themes, examining capitalism and pop culture, with his keen eye and technical ability Schoony remains one of the few artists working within the life-cast discipline.

If I Stand On My Toes I Can Touch The Ceiling

Schoony and Ryca in collaboration with David Walker for his 2014 show at the Hoxton Gallery.

Art of Dave White

Dave White is a contemporary British Artist who dedicates his work to celebrating popular culture and interpreting emotive issues. 

Art of Andrew Hem

 “Unknown Terrain”  is a culmination of Andrew Hem's imaginative view of the world.  In his show statement, Hem shares his personal goal of painting the Seven Wonders of the World by the time he is thirty years old. Here, he portrays sites like the Grand Canyon and Mount Everest, recreating the experience of seeing them as an emotional one, rather than capturing their physical reality. Although these are famous places, many of them are out of reach or facing the threats of industry, becoming “unknown” to future generations.

Art of Nicomi Nix Turner

Graphite art of Nicomi Nix Turner is filled up with occult symbols. Creating detailed illustrations that invoke a surreal understanding of the perfection in nature, her works delve into the occult and the connections between alchemy, mythology, decay and birth. Her hyper-detailed illustrations capture the coexistence of life and decay in a bouquet of fungi, personified insects, bones, flesh and fauna.

Art of Panos Tsagaris

New York based, Greek artist Panos Tsagaris burst onto the art scene in 2005 with his first solo exhibition "Theanthropic" and has since embarked, both artistically and personally—as these are undeniably intertwined, at least in Tsagaris’ case—on a journey of continual transformation towards a higher state, a “state of Catharsis” in the artist’s own words.

Drawing on the fields of spiritualism, esotericism and the Occult among others, his artistic process can be compared to that of an alchemist, as curator at large at MADRE Museum Eugenio Violahas poignantly observed, combining disparate elements, from contemporary life to quantum physics to mystical traditions, in order to achieve a masterfully calibrated equilibrium. This artistic-cum-alchemist transformational process aims at “capturing and expressing the restlessness and magic that exists in the soul of all of us” as the artist explains, in order to “elevate our ‘impure’ self to the level where it can reunite with our ‘Divine’ essence”.

“Let The Sun Protest” exhibition at Marie-Laure Fleisch Gallery, Rome
Installation photos by Giorgio Benni

Art of Emilio Villalba

Californian artist Emilio Villalba recently presented by Modern Eden gallery depicts dreamy distortion on canvases. "His gorgeously distorted work is dreamy and unfocused, at once familiar and unsettling in a way that makes the hairs on the back of your arms stand up."

The Jewellery of Joy BC

Born in raised in a pocket of South East London,  27-year-old Joy Bonfield expresses everything from her Italian heritage, to her feminist interests and discovery of Yoruba castings into her two-year old jewellery line, balancing bespoke one-offs with a beautiful and affordable ready-to-wear collection to maintain her staunch belief that “everyone should have access to fine jewellery and precious metals.”

Art of Andrey Surnov

Go deep into the mid road somewhere nowhere sadness depicted by Russian artist Andrey Surnov

Martin Wittfooth

Martin Wittfooth was born in 1981 in Toronto, Canada. He spent his childhood in Finland, before moving back to Canada as a teenager. Through his paintings, Martin presents a world which is dystopian by its very definition. The Earth he depicts is void of human life, and filled with strong symbolic implications that the root cause is of our own making; pricipally our disconnection from, and disrespect for, the natural world.

Sense of Motion of Emmanuelle Moureaux

In celebration of NSK ltd.’s 100th anniversary, the exhibition ‘Sense of Motion’ has been hosted inside the commercial shopping mall of Omotesando Spiral in Tokyo where architect Emmanuelle Moureaux has injected the space with vibrancy and colour with the ‘colour mixing’ installation.

Diego Fernandez Illustrations

Once mentioned in our Top 2012, Diego did a lot of new artworks since than. Mainly a portraits of a young women his illustrations exude the inner beauty wrapped in art-nouveau reflexion

Paintings by Eckart Hahn

Eckart Hahn is a self-taught German painter and fine artist. He is famous with his large acrylic paintings in which combine a collage-like approach with a hyperrealist finish. Hahn has had numerous shows in many German and American galleries. His works are parts of prestigious collections in Europe and North America.

Contrived Structures Nick Sellek

Contrived Structures is a series of photographs created by Nick Sellek depicting detailed models, embracing the contrived structures that surround us in our overdeveloped urban environments. They are close up, exaggerated studies of architectural components, severed from context to emphasise the absurdity of their design. The models are also intended to be displayed as freestanding objects, and to be viewed from all angles. 

Embroidery and Illustrations by Liza Smirnova

Moscow-based artist Liza Smirnova uses embroidery as a tool for her illustrative artworks

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Malevich Gestalta

Moscow-based designer Maksim Arbuzov made a sort of an art statement by juxtaposing two icons of mass-production and contemporary art: IKEA and Malevich

"The moment when culture is reflecting in a mass product. Time is going and we often don’t see how history influences to our culture and markets. My idea is to show how through time frames art objects can find reflection in mass-market products. Malevich's Gestalta representing a contemporary culture was created from two famous man-made pieces from different centuries"

Surreal Portraits by Ben Zank

American photographer Ben Zank, shot a new series of surreal portraits following his move from New York City to New Zealand. In a statement about his latest work, Zank says, “The images represent an ongoing experience of emotions that I feel, the most recent being isolation and a longing to connect with another human being.”

Tamura Yoshiyasu Art

Tamura Yoshiyasu (田村吉康) is a professional manga illustrator & painter, born in Gunma, Japan, 1977. Since high school, he has been drawing & in 2003, his first manga, “Fudegami” was published in the popular monthly, Gekkan Shonen Jump. As a painter, he has exhibited his works at Takashi Murakami’s gallery Higari Zingaro, Basel, Taipei, Los Angeles, New York & Mexico City. He also collaborated with the fashion brand “McQ: Alexander McQueen” for the 2014 winter collection.