Sad Girls Bar is a generative art project of 10,000 unique NFT Sad Girls by artist Glam Beckett.
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Marvelous works by Japanese artist Kazune Shintaku who explains her work and subjects: “I paint young girls because I respect and praise their youth and the unlimited life force in them more than anything else.”
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A selection of works from artist Lori Nelson’s recent solo exhibition, “Season of the Shutdown” that was on view at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Five years ago, the long-time New York City native, Lori, and her family decided to venture north, moving upstate to the Catskill mountains. According to the artist, it was on this trip she finally “got” nature. Fast forward to today, and Lori is now an avid mushroom forager and nature guide. She explains, “Every day is still exciting and new. [Surrounded by nature] I’m still like a besotted Freshman at her first prom.” It is that very same youthful fascination for the great outdoors that Lori captures in her work. “I hope to convey the wonder of being out in the natural world and the power that that world will share with us if we only choose it.”
Lori always paints her subjects with a classical beauty, and in this series, her figures express a calm contentment for the natural world they find themselves in. We feel similarly enthralled by her landscapes, which radiate and glow to mesmerize subject and viewer alike. And, it is the innate reverence nature forces us to feel that inspired the series as a whole. The artist writes that one effect she noticed during “the protracted and ongoing pause in which we find ourselves” due to Covid was, in fact, a return to nature. “During the initial severe Shutdown days,“ she says, "People had only a few choices for how to get by, the most attractive for many being: go outside, go to the forest. Seeing people become interested in foraging and self-reliance has been really exciting to me as I understand the thrill of independence these things bring in a pretty wobbly world.”
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Currently on view until October 6th, 2021 at Kiyoshi Art Space in Tokyo, Japan is artist Shoichi Okumura’s exquisite solo exhibition of new works, “Fictional Travelers.”
Okumura was born in Beijing and raised in Tokyo. While studying at the Department of Japanese Painting at Tama Art University in 2011 he studied abroad at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China where he studied Chinese painting. Returning to Japan in 2013, he announced the “Sister Sansui / Grandpa Sansui” series, which combined elements of Japanese painting and Chinese painting and was well received by Japanese art critics. After that, he explored the world of Taoyuan with mandala structures of gardens and Hokusung Sansui as a foundation and won the “Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015” Shuuemura Award, the “20th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award,” and the “Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi as well as many other awards for his work. He currently exhibits in Japan, receiving numerous accolades and awards with each new body of work.
“Fictional Travelers” is an exploration and questioning of social imagination, told through exciting, tropically colored works derived from the alluring colors of modern Japanese shopping malls all while being influenced by Western and Song Dynasty landscape paintings.
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