Valerie Hegarty has a talent for making art history deeply uncomfortable, and that is precisely the point. In her sculptural works, well known paintings and iconic imagery are not preserved or revered. They are attacked. Chewed up. Broken down by the imagined forces of nature, time, and entropy. This is destruction as transformation, not vandalism. And it is fascinating to look at.
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Paint Forms by artist Kim Keever
There is something wonderfully liberating about Kim Keever’s process. Based in New York City, the artist creates abstract works by dropping paint into water filled aquariums and letting physics take over. No sketches. No strict plans. Just color, movement, and chance. The results feel playful and unpredictable, which is exactly the point. Each piece captures a fleeting moment that can never be repeated. Paint blooms, sinks, spreads, and dissolves in real time, forming shapes that feel both organic and otherworldly. What you see is not designed in the traditional sense. It is discovered.
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Hsiao Ron Cheng X LES’ Fashion Collection
Artist Hsiao Ron Cheng famous for her pastel portraits and dreamlike asthetic has translated her unique style into a fashion story. The collection reflects the core of the artists work, in colors and placing peices of work on the clothing as prints. See the whimisicaly graphic collection below:
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Anthropomorphic Mountains by Artist Pam
There is something deeply comforting about Pam’s work. Maybe it is the softness of the lines. Maybe it is the way the figures seem to exist halfway between human and landscape. Or maybe it is the reminder that nature, much like us, carries emotion.
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Mixed Media Art by Eugenia Loli
“It’s important for me to “say” something with my artwork, so for the vast majority of my work there’s a meaning behind them. I usually do this via presenting a “narrative” scene in my collages, like there’s something bigger going on than what’s merely depicted. Sometimes the scene is witty or sarcastic, some times it’s horrific with a sense of danger or urgency, some times it’s chill. I leave it to the viewer’s imagination to fill-in the blanks of the story plot.” -Artist Eugenia Loli source:
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Duplicity by artist Matthieu Bourel
Matthieu Bourel’s Duplicity is a facial manipulation series that turns recognition into something strange and absorbing. Using duplicated elements from the same or related photographs, Bourel morphs old Hollywood starlets and actors into portraits that feel elegant at first glance, then quietly disturbing the longer you look.
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Portraits by artist Phealls Phree
Phealls Phree’s painted portraits are striking, intimate, and unapologetically honest. Featuring women of color set against natural backdrops, the work celebrates beauty while embracing texture, imperfection, and process. These are portraits that feel lived in rather than polished for display.
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Banksy Piece Removed for being “Offensive and Racist”
No shit. Banksy’s artworks are known for their satire imagery on heavy issues and ones that get swept under the rug. Residence from the oceanside town of Clacton-on-See in Essex were flipping when the graffiti imagery appeared on Tendring Disctric Council’s boathouse. The image presented was one of birds on a wire. A group of grey pidgins holding protesting signs reading: “MIGRANTS NOT WELCOME”,”GO BACK TO AFRICA”, and “KEEP OFF OUR WORMS” These messages harshly directed to a smaller, alone, colorful bird not to far from the pidgins. “The site was inspected by staff who agreed that it could be seen as offensive and it was removed this morning in…
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Sculptures by Edoardo Tresoldi
Edoardo Tresoldi does not make sculptures in the traditional sense. He builds absences. Using industrial wire mesh, the Rome based artist creates figures, buildings, and monumental installations that feel present and invisible at the same time. They hover between reality and memory, like a place you swear you have been before but cannot fully describe.
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Guardians by Andy Freeburg
There is something quietly powerful about Andy Freeburg’s Guardians. At first glance, the series feels understated. Almost static. Women sit or stand in Russian art museums, positioned beside famous paintings and sculptures. They are not models. They are not performers. They are guards. Their job is to watch, protect, and remain unnoticed. Freeburg flips that dynamic completely.
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Sweets Portraits by Photographer James Ostrer
Photographer James Ostrer documents our obsession with sugar in a series of grotesque real life portraits of people covered in layers of sweets and junk food. Speaking largely on the to the global food production and increasingly dangerous methods of mass production, Ostrer’s photographs conjure tribal images that are both fascinating and repulsive. Via the press release, “This adornment becomes a mask of what we eat which then becomes entwined with a hyper-pop sensibility and an obsequious inquiry into the great volumes of sugar that flow through our bodies.”
