Textile artist Sophie King works with hand embroidery techniques. King produces artworks – often wearable objects -- that acknowledge views of textile art as a traditionally feminine practice and explore the potential strength and utility behind it.
Robert Malte Engelsmann works under the pseudonym Kaeghoro, creating abstracted illustrations that draw inspiration from a range of sources both recognizable and hidden. The artist often creates his works using a free flow state of mind, allowing his pen or pencil to move freely, without too much planning.
The eyes, nose and mouth without a face, not a face without the eyes, nose and mouth.
Artist Jun Seo Hahm creates digital compositions that express fragmented biological components, and organic forms oddly removed from their usual context. The resulting images have a sense of the uncanny valley about them, and seem both alien and highly familiar.
Holton Rower creates works that hover halfway between painting and sculpture. Using layers upon layers of thin poured paint, Rower creates psychedelic patterns out of pooling, melting color.
German designer and photographer Mark Broyer expertly captures the beauty and loneliness of urban environments. Broyer has photographed both city and landscape in a range of locations, but all his works seem to draw on the nature of human intervention without human presence.
New York and Tel Aviv-based artist Tal Barel works with room-installations and dreamlike multimedia assemblages. The artist's work combines this wide range of disciplines into single pieces or gallery-filling series that seem to function as one object, conceptually.
Lu Chao is an artist based in London and Beijing. Using oil paint and other traditional media, the artist explores the beauty and fascination of the unknown, taking as inspiration the Socratic Paradox – the notion of knowing that we know nothing.
Jordan Casteel lives and works in New York, where she creates evocative figurative paintings of urban life and residents. Casteel's painted subjects tend to be pictured in candid poses and situations, with a sense of deliberateness in expression and details.
Mixed media artist Jessie Draxler works with photography, collage, and traditional drawing materials. The artist's images are stark and eerie, often presenting off-kilter human figures and scrambled, partially obscured faces.
Pierre Soulages lives and works in Sète and Paris, France. Throughout his career, Soulages has been known for painting, engraving, and sculpture – his recent works seem to combine all three disciplines in dramatic, monolithic paintings.
Painter Johnathan Chapline was born in Georgia and lived in Texas before moving to Brooklyn, NY, where he is currently located. The artist's works are neon-colorful with a hopeful, retro-futuristic aesthetic.
Brooklyn-based artist Carol Bove is known for her large-scale sculptures of curved, abstract forms. Bove's works with steel and concrete take on an interestingly organic aesthetic, with imperfect, dynamic shapes that seem to buck the traditional appearance of the media.
Designer, musician and artist Keshav Ramaswami creates work under the studio name AA/K/AA/R/A, a stylized form of a Sanskrit word which roughly translates into English as "formation." Certainly, Ramaswami's entire portfolio speaks to the importance of form.
Los Angeles artist Marc Trujillo paints portraits of American wastelands. Trujillo's delicately rendered images of wholesale stores, fast-food restaurants, and gas stations are somehow stately, yet desolate.