Rising Textile Artist Julia Gutman Sews Friendship and Loss Into Her Plush Portraits
It was grief that drew artist Julia Gutman to textiles. Born in Melbourne in 1993, she originally trained…
Gabriele Münter’s Groundbreaking Modernist Vision Is Coming into Focus
Art Portrait of Gabriele Münter, 1903. Photo by Robert Beyschlag. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Gabriele Münter, Still Life…
Ali Banisadr’s Mesmerizing Paintings Make Sense of Chaos
Art Portrait of Ali Banisadr. Photo by Charlie Rubin. Courtesy of Olney Gleason. Ali Banisadr’s childhood in Tehran…
Rising Painter Emil Sands Finds Beauty in the Vulnerability of the Human Form
Emil Sands first saw Doryphoros, Polykleitos’s fifth-century BCE sculpture of the “ideal man,” during one of his childhood…
Élise Peroi’s Woven Paintings Are a Transcendent Take on Tapestry
I stumbled just before reaching the door of Élise Peroi’s home and studio in Arles, France. While the…
In Noelia Towers’s Subversive Paintings, Troubled Women Are the Stars
“I like troubled women,” Noelia Towers remarked, sitting cross-legged on a large couch in the cozy Chicago apartment…
Geoffroy Pithon’s Kaleidoscopic Works Redefine What Painting Can Be
French artist Geoffroy Pithon is in the middle of explaining how he doesn’t see painting as something sacred…
Painter Agrade Camíz Captures the Beauty and Brutality of Life in Rio de Janeiro
Growing up, Agrade Camíz never thought she would become an artist. From her perspective as a child in…
Heidi Lau Bridges Heaven and Earth in Otherworldly Ceramics
A faceless being commonly compared to a pig appears across Daoist, Confucian, and Chinese myths as an agent…
In Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s Provocative Video Games, the Audience Is the Art
In Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s interactive video artwork I DIDNT REALISE YOU THOUGHT LIKE THAT (2025), a series of fictional…
How Renegade Sculptor Judy Pfaff Made a Career Breaking the Rules
Art Portrait of Judy Pfaff in the studio, c. 1991. Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery.…
Rising Painter Eva Helene Pade Captures the Rhythm of Dancing Bodies
Art Portrait of Eva Helene Pade. Photo by Petra Kleis. Courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac. Eva Helene Pade, Rød…