Jarek Puczel
Jarek Puczel (Jarosław Puczel) is a Polish painter whose take on representational realism is to bring focus to the signs and signifiers of meaning in a scene by rendering the rest of the scene as flat expanses of colour. The overall effect…
An Artists’ Dialogue: Kenichi Hoshine & James Jean
You may have heard of James Jean and Kenichi Hoshine already – they are both prolific, well-known, and exceptionally talented artists. James Jean was born in Taiwan and raised in New Jersey. Kenichi Hoshine was born in Japan, and also…
KiSung Koh
To make a long story short, I saw a brief article on Hi-Fructose about an artist I was unfamiliar with, KiSung Koh. Koh is originally from Seoul but moved to Canada in 2006, & recently graduated from Sheridan College. He…
Gregory Thielker
Hey, do you like taking photos through rainy windows? Me too. But wait… these aren’t photos – they’re oil paintings. Okay, paintings of photos, but still: mind=blown. These paintings are part of an ongoing series, “Under the Unminding Sky” by Gregory…
Wolfgang Beltracchi – Master Art Forger
La Forêt (1927), Max Ernst. Well, not quite. This forgery by Wolfgang Beltracchi was part of the collection of the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl, Max Ernst’s birthplace. It sold for 7 million euros in 2006. Der Spiegel recently published an…