In Carry It With You, artist J. Carino paints a queer epic stitched together from fire, flood, and open sky. Born in Littleton, Colorado and now based in Riverside, California, Carino blends the terrains of...
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Never Never by Kris Knight
In Never-Never Kris Knight continues his exploration of ambiguity and intimacy in portraiture, presenting a darkly fantastical new series of oil paintings that are as dreamy as they are dense. Knight’s new character paintings of secretive men are quietly static in their positioning and oddly calming in their atmosphere. Gentle, almost delicate portraits of young men are a parade of performers that Knight continuously inhabits in metaphor; physical manifestations of the full array of the artist’s internal psychological tones and personal narratives. Shadowed and veiled faces often do not directly address the viewer; rather Knight’s characters are contradictions – quiet in repose yet flush with restlessness – they creep with…
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Illustrations by Mojo Wang, Sex, Pain and Secrets
Mojo Wang’s illustrations do not arrive quietly. They confront the viewer with intimacy, vulnerability, and psychological tension, all rendered through surreal compositions that feel deeply personal yet deliberately unresolved. Working from China, Wang creates images that sit at the intersection of beauty and discomfort, where desire and suffering are not opposites, but intertwined states of being.
