Art, design, and visual culture

Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-12-02 14:00

Yumi Okita’s Butterflies and Botanicals Metamorphose from Colorful Thread

From vibrant thread and wire, Yumi Okita conjures thrillingly lifelike moths, butterflies, and flowers. The Raleigh-based artist (previously) meticulously embroiders insects’ colorful wings with an eye for realism, so until you’re up close, they appear as though they could flutter away at any moment. And in her more recent series of otherworldly botanicals, petals, leaves, and roots curl to look as though they were just plucked from their habitats...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-12-02 11:00

Masakatsu Sashie’s Mysterious Spheres Hover Over Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes

Encircling eerie orbs, architectural elements and neon signs hover above urban landscapes and fields of detritus in Masakatsu Sashie’s oil paintings. His fantastical, post-apocalyptic scenes envision Earth “as a representation of the universe,” the artist tells Colossal...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-12-02 08:28

December 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Every month, Colossal shares opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at [email protected]. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter...
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2024-11-29 09:08

Participatory Pavilions by Hou de Sousa Emerge from Colorful Lights and Facets

For Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa, founders of design studio Hou de Sousa, urban thoroughfares and public squares are a blank canvas. The award-winning, New York-based team focuses on architectural installations and large-scale sculptures that invite visitors to experience their surroundings in new ways...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-11-28 05:00

Swans, Plants, and Fragmented Figures Warmly Embrace in Yool Kim’s Paintings

Warmth permeates Yool Kim’s most recent body of work, which portrays tangled masses of limbs and swans in rich palettes of reds, pinks, and oranges. ..
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2024-11-27 10:13

In Striking Assemblages, Portia Munson Elucidates Societal Constraints on Women

From a vast accumulation of found and readymade consumer products, Portia Munson has created elaborate sculptures and installations for more than three decades that explore the thinly veiled messages and codes embedded in mass-produced objects...
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2024-11-27 05:00

In a Resounding ‘Renaissance,’ Conrad Jon Godly’s Acrylic Paintings Scale Alpine Peaks

Through the deft manipulation of thick acrylic paint on canvas, Conrad Jon Godly summons snow-capped peaks, tumbling mountain springs, and shifting weather...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-11-26 09:49

‘Flow’ Follows a Courageous Black Cat Navigating a World Suddenly Plunged Underwater

When a brave black cat’s world is turned upside down after a massive flood, everything feels uncertain. Fortunately, when the feline teams up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog navigating a boat in search of dry land, the eclectic group relies on their unlikely friendships and a mix of courage, trust, and wits to survive in their newly aquatic world...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-11-26 05:00

Masks and Make-Believe: Children Traverse ‘Paper Stories’ in José Luis Ceña’s Paintings

Elaborate, imaginary worlds open up around the youthful characters in José Luis Ceña’s oil paintings. Brushy, splattered, and sometimes fuzzy around the edges, his protagonists don homemade costumes and traipse through forts made from sheets and boxes...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-25 16:35

Fantastical Totems Emerge from Clay in Yu Maeda’s Vibrant Sculptures

“I enjoy the freedom of shaping clay directly with my hands… creating forms that express spontaneity,” says Yu Maeda. Based near Tokyo, the artist began experimenting with ceramics after a career focused on painting when he started transforming animals and imaginary beings into vibrant, lighthearted sculptures...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-25 13:04

Sebastian Foster Announces 20 Artists for Its Fall Print Set

Sebastian Foster is thrilled to present its 2024 Fall Print Set, marking the 12th anniversary of the collection since launching in 2012. The new release features 20 works by well-established illustrators, printmakers, and painters from around the world...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-25 10:45

My Brain Took an Extended Vacation: Ben Zank Playfully Twists the Banal

When words can’t quite sum up a feeling, Ben Zank (previously) leans into a bizarre visual language. The New York-based photographer creates strange situations in which subjects find themselves subsumed by topiaries and shrubs or buttoned up with structural supports. ..
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-25 05:00

Warmth and Mystery Emanate from Illustrations by Myriam Wares

“In a way, I was always an illustrator at heart, at least since I was old enough to hold a pencil,” says Myriam Wares. “Drawing has always been a part of me since childhood; I simply continued along that path into adulthood.”..
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2024-11-22 14:34

The Colossal Gift Guide is Here

The season of giving has somehow officially arrived, and we’ve got you covered...
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Art, design, and visual culture

Art, design, and visual culture

The best of art, craft, and visual culture since 2010.

Yumi Okita’s Butterflies and Botanicals Metamorphose from Colorful Thread

Masakatsu Sashie’s Mysterious Spheres Hover Over Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes

December 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Participatory Pavilions by Hou de Sousa Emerge from Colorful Lights and Facets

Swans, Plants, and Fragmented Figures Warmly Embrace in Yool Kim’s Paintings

In Striking Assemblages, Portia Munson Elucidates Societal Constraints on Women

In a Resounding ‘Renaissance,’ Conrad Jon Godly’s Acrylic Paintings Scale Alpine Peaks

‘Flow’ Follows a Courageous Black Cat Navigating a World Suddenly Plunged Underwater

Masks and Make-Believe: Children Traverse ‘Paper Stories’ in José Luis Ceña’s Paintings

Fantastical Totems Emerge from Clay in Yu Maeda’s Vibrant Sculptures

Sebastian Foster Announces 20 Artists for Its Fall Print Set

My Brain Took an Extended Vacation: Ben Zank Playfully Twists the Banal

Warmth and Mystery Emanate from Illustrations by Myriam Wares

The Colossal Gift Guide is Here

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