Visual Art – Page 10

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Darla Teagarden’s Altars at Roq la Rue

Darla Teagarden’s solo show, Altars, is exhibiting at Roq la Rue Gallery in Seattle now through March 28th.

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Miso’s Cornucopia

{ Cornucopia began life as a meditation on 16th-century Flemish still life paintings, but evolved into something more descriptively elusive. The relatively small, but lavishly illuminated oil paintings that comprise the exhibition feature botanical wonders alongside the dissected anatomical figures that populate Karen Hsiao’s fantasy Miso world.

The titular cornucopia relates to Hsiao’s vast collection of specimens, both flora and fauna, that continue the tradition of scientific classification paintings spanning Audubon to Walton Ford – but reflecting a modern context of fetishistic connoisseurship. }

— La Luz de Jesus

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Uldus Bakhtiozina’s Interpretations of Russian Fairy Tales

These dreamy and colorful photographic renditions of traditional Russian fairy tales by Uldus Bakhtiozina represent Ivan the Prince and the Firebird, Tsarevna Frog, Baba Yaga, the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (based on Snow White), and others.

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Jas Helena

Jas Helena creates intricate, macabre, occult-inspired drawings reminiscent of baroque etchings. The delicate ink illustrations convey an impression both of painstaking detail and of portentous, magnificent atmosphere.

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Neuron Paintings by Greg Dunn

These amazing landscapes of the brain in gold, ink, dye, and metal, are by neuroscientist-artist Greg Dunn, who is inspired by the sumi-e style of ink wash painting. He also uses the technique of microetching, a form of lithography that manipulates light on a microscopic scale, which creates a very beautiful and stunning effect.

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The Self-Portraits of Lauren Thurman-King

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The Romantic Cannibal: The Art of Kurokawa Inuko

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Miss G Designs in “Midnight”

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Iceland

These haunting, otherworldly images are by Selina Elkuch for SOME/THINGS. I like the desolate beauty, and their revelation of the Iceland coast shrouded in mists and crowned by towering, strange, dark, mysterious rock formations.

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Flowers and Insects: The Art of Toru Kamei

Toru Kamei’s lush works are reminiscent of vanitas paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries. His motifs are flowers with eyes, skulls, butterflies, and other creatures including bats and beetles. His masterful use of lighting and color brings a sumptuous glow to his illustration of death and decay. I love his juxtapositional imagery, such as the blossoms overflowing and spilling from the rib cage in almost obscene abundance, while strange, alien, seemingly sentient vegetation grows around it in the night, with its sense of still, mysterious hunger.

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