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Myartisreal Podcast Ep 24 | Linnea Strid couldn’t be stopped, even after facing multiple rejections from art colleges

Myartisreal — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:56:16 +0000

Linnea Strid is a Swedish artist who has made a name for herself through realistic portrait paintings. Growing up, she was always into art and knew that becoming a full-time artist was her ultimate goal. However, as we all know, achieving that goal is not easy. After Linnea had been rejected by art college four times, things seemed rather bleak. Join me, your host Jacob Johnson…

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Stefan Draschan finds similarities with Museum-goers and the paintings around them

Myartisreal — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:20:09 +0000

Photographer Stefan Draschan visits museums and observes not just the art but also the other visitors. In what has become an ongoing series “People Matching Artwork”, Stefan takes photos of visitors that accidentally match the artworks they are observing. Draschan has become a master of sorts for finding the beauty in the mundane and coincidence of everyday life. You can view more of this series…

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“A wall waiting for a piece” – Myartisreal Gallery Exhibition

Myartisreal — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 17:36:51 +0000

Myartisreal’s current online exhibition (view here) went live on our main site on the 19th of November and will be live until the 1st of January. The show is titled “A wall waiting for a piece” and features ten contemporary artists from around the world. The core idea for this show and the meaning of the title is simple, every wall is just an empty spot waiting for a piece. Often people don’t…

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Kathleen Ryan brings new sculpture and “Bad Fruit” to Karma Gallery in New York City

Myartisreal — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:18:11 +0000

Kathleen Ryan is back with her latest exhibition at the Karma Gallery in New York City. We spoke about Ryan’s elegant sculptures of moldy fruits constructed with beads in the past (read here), but this new show offers us some new sculptures to behold. We see many variations of rotting cherries placed through the show, each one with a fishing pole replacing the stem. We even see one sculpture of a…

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Nature meets sculpture in these ever-changing works by Jamie North

Myartisreal — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:55:40 +0000

Australian artist Jamie North operates at the intersection of nature and man-made structure. Columns of concrete and steel rise up with plant life sporting out of the cracks and crevices. North carefully terraforms each sculpture to allow it to support the plant life. Picking plants native to his home of Australia such as Kangaroo vines, Port Jackson figs, and kidney weeds wrap, and more.

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Fabian Oefner pushes coffee table books to the limit with the ‘Bialetti book’

Myartisreal — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:48:08 +0000

Coffee table books, simple books meant to decorate your coffee table and for guests to flip through, but can they be more than that? Fabian Oefner sure believes so, he has pushed coffee table books to a new level of meta. Pushing it even further than Kramer did in the sitcom Seinfield where he published a coffee table book about coffee tables that also turned into a mini coffee table. For Fabian…

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Alexandra Kehayoglou creates portals to nature with her landscape rugs

Myartisreal — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 18:22:14 +0000

It’s almost as if you are living in nature itself when you look into these landscapes and marshland rugs by Alexandra Kehayoglou. Coming from a family of rug makers that owns the largest South American carpet company, Alexandra knows a thing to two about designing rugs. However, she is not just a normal carpet maker but rather an artist who uses her roots in the craft to design beautiful rugs that…

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The cycle of life within Wolfgang Stiller’s “Matchstickman”

Myartisreal — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:32:57 +0000

Since I started actively looking for new art and exploring all types of mediums I have been in love with a set of sculptures by German artist Wolfgang Stiller. While the artist still adds various sculptures to this series of works he began to create them about 10 years ago. I however didn’t discover them until about 2016 and still to this day will think about these profound works of art.

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Minimalistic and realistic, a look at Mark Tennant

Myartisreal — Thu, 07 May 2020 18:55:51 +0000

Prepare to be amazed, the paintings of New York-based artist Mark Tennant are some of the most captivating works of contemporary art today. Each work almost feels like a photograph taken at just the right moment, as if someone is walking around with a camera snapping photos of the nightlife. However, these works of art are not photos they are paintings. Somehow even with his simplistic style and…

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Dipped Paintings, a series by Oliver Jeffers

Myartisreal — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:21:12 +0000

Today we shine a spotlight on these amazing dipped paintings. “In November of 2014, I began the first of a series of performances whereby I dipped my own fully painted portraits into vats of enamel paints. It is a process that permanently hides parts of the portrait’s features. I painted the portraits alone in my studio and kept each veiled. Prior to dipping. I never photographed any of the…

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