Brooklyn based artist Alexandra Rubinstein creates series where we find famous hollywood heartthrobs like Jon Hamm, Justin Bieber, David Beckam, Ryan Gosling and more positioned in-between the legs of a woman. The ongoing series is titled A Dream Come True. See some selected works below:
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Illustrations by artist Sashiko Yuen (Wishcandy)
The artist mainly known as Wishcandy creates an ongoing pastel punk illustration series surronding the subject of women with ties to emotion filled themes includecompassion, eroticism, violence, freedom, and candy. wishcandy.net
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Facebook’s New Gender Equal Friend Icon
Facebook has been making a few updates, nothing new there. But this time the Friend Icon we’ve become familiar with has had a specific gender equal based update. Instead of having the woman shorter behind the man now they have become the same size, and she’s in front. NOBODY puts faceless icon woman behind faceless icon man! Did you notice the update? “As a woman, educated at a women’s college, it was hard not to read into the symbolism of the current icon; the woman was quite literally in the shadow of the man, she was not in a position to lean in,” said Facebook design manager Caitlin Winner. “My…
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Jessica Ledwich and the Monstrous Feminine
Jessica Ledwich’s work does not ease the viewer in. It confronts directly, unapologetically intense, and deliberately uncomfortable. Her series The Fanciful, Monstrous Feminine operates in a space where beauty rituals are no longer soothing or aspirational, but strange, excessive, and psychologically charged. What is usually marketed as refinement is pushed into distortion, revealing something far more unsettling beneath the surface.
