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Cicadian Symmetries: The Art of Aubrey Learner

Aubrey Learner’s incredibly realistic drawings are intriguing studies in precision and subtle repulsion. Reminiscent of naturalist illustrations, her imagery combines inorganic elements such as scissors, ribbons, corset lacing, and feminine undergarments, with insects, leeches, butterflies, snails, and worms. These beautifully detailed compositions have a mysterious and jarring sense of juxtaposition.

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Ariana Page Russell: Art Via Skin

Ariana Page Russell explores the artistic possibilities of dermatographia, “a condition in which one’s immune system releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the hypersensitive skin’s surface is lightly scratched. This allows me to painlessly draw on my skin with just enough time to photograph the results. Even though I can direct this ephemeral response by drawing on it, the reaction is involuntary, much like the uncontrollable nature of a blush.”

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Olivier de Sagazan

Olivier de Sagazan’s truly disturbing, visceral, liminal performance art pieces tread the fluid boundaries between beauty, grotesqueness, terror, uncanniness, and creativity. The emotional intensity and sheer bizarreness of his uncanny art, which is a hybrid of painting, photography, sculpture, and performance, takes the viewer beyond ordinary considerations of aesthetic pleasingness into a world of violently expressed and unnervingly arcane impulses.

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