Maggie Johnson – Myartisreal Magazine

Salman Khoshroo manipulates wool to simulate brush strokes in portraits and sculptures

Maggie Johnson — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:36:57 +0000

Iranian artist Salman Khoshroo began his art career as a self-taught painter specializing in portrait work. But most recently inspired by the covid 19 pandemic, has ventured into the world of sculpture. Drawing from his previous work Salman began to create 3-dimensional abstract portraits out of colorfully dyed wool. Using the wool fibers in a way that is comparative to brush strokes Salman is…

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Matt Stevens converts movies into remarkable vintage style book covers

Maggie Johnson — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 18:56:57 +0000

Top-notch cinema meets vintage graphic design with Matt Stevens’s newest project, “Good Movies as Old Books.” In this project, Stevens creates artistically pleasing, diverse, and increasingly unique movie posters. Inspired by the styles of vintage books and their always intriguing covers, Steven’s decided to reimagine some of his favorite movies as if they were books. Matt makes it clear this is…

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Mid-century modern designed daybed and lounge chairs by Instrmnt Applied Design

Maggie Johnson — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:43:13 +0000

Glasgow-based studio, Instrmnt Applied Design, also known as I-AD, newest venture in the world of furniture design is “A truly multifunctional piece” A daybed designed in a true midcentury modern style. Created in alliance with Edinburgh-based furniture craftsman Namon Gaston the bed base is crafted from solid American walnut built with quality in mind. The expandable rear section of the bed base…

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From athlete to an artist, a look at BGW and his journey to art

Maggie Johnson — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:14:00 +0000

The swiss-based french-born artist known as BGW has an origin story unlike many. Financial markets trader, surfer, skater, family man, were a few of the many titles BGW held for many years before his life-defining accident. After the accident that ultimately left him quadriplegic BGW no longer skates, surfs, or works in the financial market. However, he has gained a new title, artist…

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Poetic paintings depicting the pressures of domestic life, a look at Chidinma Nnoli

Maggie Johnson — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 22:15:38 +0000

Poetic paintings depicting the pressures of domestic life, a look at Chidinma Nnoli 22-year-old Nigerian artist Chidinma Nnoli uses acrylic and oil-based paints to create surreal and often poetic pieces that reflect the incredibly ingrained pressures enforced upon women by a patriarchal societal framework. Chidinma exhibits a constant struggle for safe space by creating a pastel, cloudy environment with elements of tranquility like flowers, comfortable sofas, and indiscernible artworks. These constituents create a cozy, homelike feeling that is juxtaposed by […]

‘Magic Trump’ a satirical art series by Marie Serruya

Maggie Johnson — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:35:01 +0000

Serruya often works in the video medium, creating hilarious and often intense scenes of comedy, destruction, and more. While her sculptures often feature faces of famous artists and well-known figures. Exploring our reality through her own comedic lens. In her first limited art piece multidisciplinary artist, Marie Serruya inspired by the magic troll dolls of the ’80s adds colorful toupees to her…

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Landscapes and geometric drone paths by photographer Reuben Wu

Maggie Johnson — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 18:56:04 +0000

Reuben Wu, a Chicago-based photographer brings a refreshingly innovative and technologically clever twist to landscape photography with his most recent project titled “light storm”. “Light storm” is a photography project focused on the natural beauty of Wu’s surrounding environment as well as using artificial light to accentuate the many geographical features of any given habitat around the world.

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Miniature Landscapes by Heidi Annalise

Maggie Johnson — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 01:04:46 +0000

A mint tin, a dash of oil paint, and a beautiful landscape is all Heidi Annalise, a colorado based artist, needs to create stunning and amazingly creative miniature studies of the natural beauty of the surrounding world. Heidi’s work is inspired by her preoccupation with the earth and its many habitations as well as her creative vision of a more streamlined and whimsical approach to the…

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Exploring femininity, a look at Fipe Gouge Merrall

Maggie Johnson — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:06:28 +0000

Expressive femininity and mixed media artistry collide when Australian artist Fipe Gouge Merrall puts her mind and creativity to the test. Fipe brings an invigorating execution of the display of the female form by not idealizing it but exhibiting it in concurrence between delicate observation and raw voicing of the female experience. With materials such as watercolor paints, pastels, and charcoal.

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Photographer Kata Geibl Presents ‘There is nothing new under the sun’

Maggie Johnson — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:35:28 +0000

Kata Geibl, a Hungarian photographer, is challenging our perception of the world and how capitalism affects its resources with her crisp, engaging, and thought-provoking photography. With her newest series titled, “There Is Nothing New Under The Sun”. Kata showcases our innate human need to consume. Our economic system, being capitalism, mirrors this need by displaying the widespread phenomenon…

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