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Woven into Akea Brionne ’s glimmery Afro-surrealist tapestries is an impulse toward sustainability. With a degree in the subject and a practice rooted in research, the Detroit-based artist bega...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/akea-brionne-tapestries/

Whether working in acrylic and ink on paper or carving small wooden sculptures, Marcel Dzama uses performance as an ordering tool. Raised in Winnipeg before relocating to Brooklyn, the artist is...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/marcel-dzama-wild-kindness/

In a brief email exchange about her work, GaHee Park references freedom several times. The Seoul-born, Montréal-based artist wants to liberate herself from realism and infuse her paintings with...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/02/gahee-park-still-lifes/

Elephants with blue scales and pipe-like trunks, a woman sporting an enormous bouffant filled with birds, and a farmer grasping a tree with roots evocative of veins or intestines are just a few o...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/martin-jarrie-illustrations/

A review of Paco Pomet ’s paintings from the last few years uncovers an unwavering fascination with the sun and moon. Brilliant glowing orbs appear in the distance and illuminate otherwise gr...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/12/paco-pomet-celestial/

Brazilian artist Rafael Silveira supplants heads with bunches of flowers, flocks of birds, and plumes of smoke in fantastical portraits that delve into the inner workings of the human psyche. Li...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/12/rafael-silveira-human-psyche/

Next year marks the 100th anniversary of surrealism, an enduring movement the poet André Breton sparked in 1924. Countless artists across disciplines have been inspired by the uncanny, unconscio...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/12/new-surrealism-robert-zeller/

For more than five decades, Sandy Skoglund has explored a fusion of photography, installation, and conceptual art. The artist’s elaborately detailed scenes, built from a wide variety of materi...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/sandy-skoglund-imaginary-worlds/

Stories come to life on the page and introspective figures explore inner worlds in the dreamlike illustrations of Simón Prades (previously ). His surreal scenes often feature silhouettes of peo...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/simon-prades-illustrations/

Alchemy and the depths of the occult manifest within Remedios Varo ’s practice. The Spanish surrealist (1908-1963), whose works are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, was a researcher at ...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/09/remedios-varo-science-fictions/