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Mon, 2024-12-02 08:28

December 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Every month, Colossal shares opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at [email protected]. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter...
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2024-11-29 09:08

Participatory Pavilions by Hou de Sousa Emerge from Colorful Lights and Facets

For Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa, founders of design studio Hou de Sousa, urban thoroughfares and public squares are a blank canvas. The award-winning, New York-based team focuses on architectural installations and large-scale sculptures that invite visitors to experience their surroundings in new ways...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-11-28 05:00

Swans, Plants, and Fragmented Figures Warmly Embrace in Yool Kim’s Paintings

Warmth permeates Yool Kim’s most recent body of work, which portrays tangled masses of limbs and swans in rich palettes of reds, pinks, and oranges. ..
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2024-11-27 10:13

In Striking Assemblages, Portia Munson Elucidates Societal Constraints on Women

From a vast accumulation of found and readymade consumer products, Portia Munson has created elaborate sculptures and installations for more than three decades that explore the thinly veiled messages and codes embedded in mass-produced objects...
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2024-11-27 05:00

In a Resounding ‘Renaissance,’ Conrad Jon Godly’s Acrylic Paintings Scale Alpine Peaks

Through the deft manipulation of thick acrylic paint on canvas, Conrad Jon Godly summons snow-capped peaks, tumbling mountain springs, and shifting weather...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-11-26 09:49

‘Flow’ Follows a Courageous Black Cat Navigating a World Suddenly Plunged Underwater

When a brave black cat’s world is turned upside down after a massive flood, everything feels uncertain. Fortunately, when the feline teams up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog navigating a boat in search of dry land, the eclectic group relies on their unlikely friendships and a mix of courage, trust, and wits to survive in their newly aquatic world...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-11-26 05:00

Masks and Make-Believe: Children Traverse ‘Paper Stories’ in José Luis Ceña’s Paintings

Elaborate, imaginary worlds open up around the youthful characters in José Luis Ceña’s oil paintings. Brushy, splattered, and sometimes fuzzy around the edges, his protagonists don homemade costumes and traipse through forts made from sheets and boxes...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-25 16:35

Fantastical Totems Emerge from Clay in Yu Maeda’s Vibrant Sculptures

“I enjoy the freedom of shaping clay directly with my hands… creating forms that express spontaneity,” says Yu Maeda. Based near Tokyo, the artist began experimenting with ceramics after a career focused on painting when he started transforming animals and imaginary beings into vibrant, lighthearted sculptures...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-25 13:04

Sebastian Foster Announces 20 Artists for Its Fall Print Set

Sebastian Foster is thrilled to present its 2024 Fall Print Set, marking the 12th anniversary of the collection since launching in 2012. The new release features 20 works by well-established illustrators, printmakers, and painters from around the world...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-25 10:45

My Brain Took an Extended Vacation: Ben Zank Playfully Twists the Banal

When words can’t quite sum up a feeling, Ben Zank (previously) leans into a bizarre visual language. The New York-based photographer creates strange situations in which subjects find themselves subsumed by topiaries and shrubs or buttoned up with structural supports. ..
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-11-25 05:00

Warmth and Mystery Emanate from Illustrations by Myriam Wares

“In a way, I was always an illustrator at heart, at least since I was old enough to hold a pencil,” says Myriam Wares. “Drawing has always been a part of me since childhood; I simply continued along that path into adulthood.”..
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2024-11-22 14:34

The Colossal Gift Guide is Here

The season of giving has somehow officially arrived, and we’ve got you covered...
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2024-11-22 05:00

Idiosyncratic Ceramic Sculptures by Janny Baek Evoke Nature and Desire

“I think of my pieces as life forms that are in the process of transforming in ways that may be both wonderful and strange,” says artist Janny Baek, whose otherworldly ceramics (previously) merge vibrant color, eclectic motifs, and botanical details...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-11-21 15:27

Through Monumental Installations of Soap and Stones, Jesse Krimes Interrogates the Prison System

Around 2009, Jesse Krimes was sent to solitary confinement while awaiting trial for a drug charge. He had recently graduated from Millersville University of Pennsylvania with an art degree and spent his first year inside Fairton Federal Correctional Institution making. “The one thing they could not take away or control was my ability to create,” he says...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-11-21 12:30

From Single Balls of Clay, Paul S. Briggs ‘Hand-Turns’ Leafy Vessels

Curling leaves and pinched patterns cloak the bold vessels of artist Paul S. Briggs. Using a slab-building technique, he creates chunky sculptures that nod to nature, mindfulness, and the malleability of his chosen medium...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-11-21 08:39

Gary Wagner’s Photos Illuminate Rugged Icelandic Fjords and Shorelines

Working exclusively in black-and-white, Gary Wagner’s striking photos pare dramatic landscapes down to their essential shapes, lines, and tones. Based in Northern California, he captures shorelines, forests, and mountains using digital cameras...
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2024-11-20 14:34

Concentric Forms Escape the Confines of the Ceramic Vessel in Matthew Chambers’s Sculptures

It’s been almost exactly a decade since we first featured the concentric, ceramic vessels of Matthew Chambers on Colossal, and in that time, we’ve come to find his sculptures no less stupefying. ..
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2024-11-20 08:20

Hollie Chastain Lands a Playful Series of Collaged UFOs

From paper, thread, and gouache, Chattanooga-based artist Hollie Chastain (previously) combines ephemera and found materials into vibrant collages. Strips of paper are cut, woven, and stitched into playful, abstract compositions...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-11-19 18:13

Myriam Dion Weaves Milestones of Women’s History from Vintage Newspapers

From found vintage newspapers and hand-painted designs, Myriam Dion composes remarkably detailed collages. Known for reimagining newspapers into sculptural, geometric works, the Montréal-based artist (previously) has recently begun experimenting with a range of found materials, like gouache-painted samples of antique textile patterns and pages from old garden books...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-11-19 11:56

Sangmin Oh Illuminates Upcycled Industrial Fiber in Knitted Lighting Sculptures

Sprouting like coral or fungi, Sangmin Oh’s biologically-inspired lighting designs and furnishings merge form and function. Based between The Netherlands and South Korea, the designer (previously) is fascinated by the interplay of material, aesthetics, and sustainability...
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DIY Ideas

Arts and Crafts

December 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Participatory Pavilions by Hou de Sousa Emerge from Colorful Lights and Facets

Swans, Plants, and Fragmented Figures Warmly Embrace in Yool Kim’s Paintings

In Striking Assemblages, Portia Munson Elucidates Societal Constraints on Women

In a Resounding ‘Renaissance,’ Conrad Jon Godly’s Acrylic Paintings Scale Alpine Peaks

‘Flow’ Follows a Courageous Black Cat Navigating a World Suddenly Plunged Underwater

Masks and Make-Believe: Children Traverse ‘Paper Stories’ in José Luis Ceña’s Paintings

Fantastical Totems Emerge from Clay in Yu Maeda’s Vibrant Sculptures

Sebastian Foster Announces 20 Artists for Its Fall Print Set

My Brain Took an Extended Vacation: Ben Zank Playfully Twists the Banal

Warmth and Mystery Emanate from Illustrations by Myriam Wares

The Colossal Gift Guide is Here

Idiosyncratic Ceramic Sculptures by Janny Baek Evoke Nature and Desire

Through Monumental Installations of Soap and Stones, Jesse Krimes Interrogates the Prison System

From Single Balls of Clay, Paul S. Briggs ‘Hand-Turns’ Leafy Vessels

Gary Wagner’s Photos Illuminate Rugged Icelandic Fjords and Shorelines

Concentric Forms Escape the Confines of the Ceramic Vessel in Matthew Chambers’s Sculptures

Hollie Chastain Lands a Playful Series of Collaged UFOs

Myriam Dion Weaves Milestones of Women’s History from Vintage Newspapers

Sangmin Oh Illuminates Upcycled Industrial Fiber in Knitted Lighting Sculptures

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