The oscillating curves of a sine wave become a disfiguring characteristic in Léo Caillard’s ongoing Wave Stone series. Carved in white Carrara marble and stone with green and gray ripples, the French artist’s sleek renditions of Aphrodite, Laocoön, and Venus appear to have warped, glitched, or transformed into a tight spiral. Much of Caillard’s work is anachronistic, and he tells Colossal that “the face of the statue connects the piece to its reality, a representation of a classical and iconic figure from the past,” while the abstractions create new gaps of negative space. More

Canadian artist Mathieu Laca crafts oil paintings that use texture and abstractions that toy with the conventions of portraiture. Whether it’s famous subjects or the vague everyman or everywoman, the artist packs both meticulous, odd flair and personality into each of the paintings. He's given this treatment to anyone from Henry David Thoreau and Albert Einstein to historical arts figures like Vincent Van Gogh.

Lucas Simoes was born in 1980 in Brazil. An independent artist, he studied architecture and design in Brazil and Italy. Many of Lucas’ pieces are heavily layered as he cuts away at different …

Discarded photographs from yesteryear are given new life in the photographic project ‘Single Image Processing’ by Japanese artist, Kensuke Koike. In the stacks of weathered old photographs, worn albums and bundles of vintage postcards so often found at flea markets, Koike finds inspiration for a different kind of photographic practice. Using a scalpel, Koike meticulously crafts […]

Marion Peck moves into a new chapter of her practice as she unveils "StraVolti" at Dorothy Circus Gallery Rome on April 21. The show, collecting new works that explore psychological themes and modern art history, presents a series of distorted portraits rendered in oil. "StraVolti" runs through May 28.

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New collage art by Matthieu Bourel.

Kai Fine Art is an art website, shows painting and illustration works all over the world.

The human body and it’s representation in visual culture is an important inspiration to me as an artist. Our body is a strong communication instrument; it is our most private possession and at the …

Jaime Pitarch is a Spanish artist who has created a series of sculptures by completely modifying everyday objects.

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8″ x 8″ – Oil on paper This 8″ x 8″ self portrait color study is on black cotton rag paper. It is a whimsically

‘Proxy’: a collection of abstract portraits, unfettered by proximity, meditating on distance & distortion. By Seb JJ Peters. Almost an extension of his catalogu

New collage art by Matthieu Bourel.

Splicing and rearranging the subjects depicted in vintage flea market finds, photographer Kensuke Koike reformats discarded memories into intriguing and precise abstract works.

Paintings of faces and figures by contemporary British artist Simon J Houlton, in the style of cubism, expressionism, and art brut.