I stumbled upon Australian artist Gemma Smith and her Tangle paintings via the Sarah Cottier Gallery. Upon further exploration, I was immediately drawn to both her large-scale paintings and translucent acrylic sculptures. Her abstract paintings and prism-like “boulders,” as she calls them, are both modern and mesmerizing. She combines bright bold colors, angles, and lines, all in an asymmetrical way. She plays with hard edges and soft curves that show her keen sense of spatial relationships.
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Brooklyn-based artist and designer Mike Perry does many different things but his paintings are unforgettable. While all of his work is unusual and innovative, it still has enough commercial appeal for big name companies to constantly hire him. I love his use of geometric shapes and bright, bold colors achieved with different mediums. He has such an impressive body of work that it’s impossible to choose favorites.
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UK-born Hong Kong-based artist Simon Birch makes paintings that I only wish I was talented enough to create. His giant, colorful brush strokes by themselves don’t look like they’d be able to form a complex portrait, but when it all comes together, the characters are alive and moving on canvas.
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Artist Cayce Zavaglia considers herself a painter (she is formally trained in drawing and painting), but for the last ten years she’s been working on a series of portraits that are more works of embroidery. Atop a background of sanded and distressed acrylic, Zavaglia uses crewel wool to hand embroider the likenesses.
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California-based artist Andrew Myers drills thousands of painted screws into wood and then individually paints each screw head. A labor-intensive process, Myers explains that these are more a labor of love than a profitable endeavor.
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This week Narwhal Art Projects presents Specimens: New work by Carly Waito. If you’re not already familiar with Carly Waito’s detailed paintings of gemstones, it’s time to meet her!
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Oh wow Philip Govedare’s landscape paintings are something out of a sci-fi movie about the surface of Mars.
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I just love me some colorful graphic paintings, like these from New York artist Peter Halley.
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I fell upon the work of Takashi Iwasaki via Booooooom and instantly loved the playfulness of color versus white space. It feels like the colorful shapes are dancing around the canvas. Scroll down to see even more of his beautiful art – including a few pieces that look painted but are actually embroidery.
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Back in 2008, Copenhagen-based multi-disciplinary arts and design studio Hvass & Hannibal was invited, along with a handful of other designers and artists, to design one of DGI-byen‘s meeting rooms. The idea was to create a more stimulating and inspiring environment for employees.
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