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Category: Sculpture & Dimensional

  • Mario Martinez ( MARS-1)

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    Mario Martinez, who also is known by the handle MARS-1, is a painter based in New York who uses exacting representational techniques to paint imaginary objects and spaces. His compositions are often elaborate arrangements of geometric and pseudo-biological forms, intricately detailed and rendered with a palpable dimensionality. They sometimes encompass fantastical landscapes and suggestions of…

  • Michael Robear

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    The watercolors of northeastern Maryland artist Michael Robear would be striking enough in any context — crisply rendered in muted palettes, with intriguing narrative elements bordering on magic realism — but they are particularly arresting in their individualized sculptural frames. In addition to being a painter, Robear is a sculptural metalworker and also works with…

  • Jim Kay

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    Jim Kay is a British illustrator know for his illustrations for A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, and the pop-up book, Bugs with George McGavin, and lately — in particular — for his work on the new Illustrated Editions of the Harry Potter series. The first in that series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone:…

  • Richard Schmid: The Landscapes

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    Richard Schmid is a well known painter, author and teacher, who is highly regarded among other artists and whose signature style is often emulated by his students. I first mentioned Schmid on Lines and Colors back in 2008. In that article, I focused largely on his demo videos and his excellent instructional book, Alla Prima.…

  • beinArt Collective returns

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    Founded in 2003 by Jon Beinart as the “beinArt Australian Surreal Art Collective” and expanded internationally in 2006 as the “beinArt International Surreal Art Collective”, the beinArt Collective has long been a web destination, publisher and sponsor of group exhibitions for artists working in the areas of strange, surreal, fantastic, psychedelic, visionary and outsider art.…

  • Gilbert Legrand

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    French artist Gilbert Legrand takes common objects like household tools, garden implements, plumbing fixtures, paintbrushes and cleaning supplies — adds the occasional bit of extra material, and paints the resulting objects with faces and other characteristics — to produce his delightfully whimsical sculpture/assemblages. In addition to his sculptures, he has a section in his site…