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Solange Knopf's Surrealist drawings are a testament to the power of art as a form of self-reclamation. Struggling with severe depression, Knopf taught herself to draw, a practice that helped her forge a new identity. Her work is characterized by meticulous detail, using a technique similar to automatism to create seemingly simple and familiar scenes.
Knopf's drawings feature elaborate depictions of surreal figures, faces, creatures, plants with eyes, circles, and nature motifs. Yet, beneath this innocent veneer lies a recurring sense of darkness. In works like Spirit Codex No. 22 (2014), a magical dream world is infused with sinister undertones.
Working in solitude, Knopf's process is one of intuitive exploration. Images come to her, and she compulsively adds to the work, rotating her drawings to discover new shapes and ideas until no more can be included. This method allows her subconscious to guide the creative process, resulting in deeply personal and evocative drawings.
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If you still think you are awake as you read this,
you are having a lucid dream.
Wake up.
The Black Sun rises.
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From Aron Wiesenfeld’s ‘Playtime’
Known primarily for mysterious paintings, Aron Wiesenfeld has been experimenting with a tinier canvas, packing the same enigmatic energy into the confines of a yellow Post-It. His ink drawings rely on intricate line work and the artist’s ability to convey vast narratives within a three-inch square.
“The moody spaces of of American artist Aron Wiesenfeld thrum quietly with moments of melancholy and a deep sense of loneliness. His scenes are of dimly lit liminality: sparse, shadowy landscapes outside of borders where the wilderness and urban converge and paths or portals often appear. We don’t know whether the characters in them will take that road or make the leap beyond; they exist perpetually at the threshold of their own personal fable in the solitude of self reflection as they stare off into an enigmatic abyss.”
-S. Elizabeth, “The Art of Darkness”
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Amanda Kate Walker (New Haven)
"I imagine potential explanations for the phenomena and mysteries of the world around me. How would I explain the formation of life if I didn’t know about sexual reproduction? How would I understand storms if I knew nothing about meteorology? If I could create a mythology to explain the seemingly unexplainable, what would that be? Myths are operatic in scope, but also extremely intimate in the personal ways we understand them and apply their meanings to our lives, in addition to which, they are boiling over with imagery. Drawing inspiration from different world mythologies combined with a lifelong love of history, medieval art, and theater, I use painting and collage to explore the world around me.
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Taiwanese-American artist James Jean makes contemporary pop art that has captured the imagination of the art world and popular culture. His colossal internet following is a testament to his instantly recognisable style, which mixes a comic and manga sensibility with the detailed prowess of Renaissance painting and traditional Japanese wood carving.
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Teagan White is an artist and outsider naturalist whose work arises from direct experience with natural phenomena and dedicated communication with the land. Through careful observation and poetic allegory, their paintings explore regional ecological issues such as drought, wildfire, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity loss, as well as the universal spiritual and psychosomatic burden of our acquiescence to a necrotic, extractivist civilization.
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Esther Sarto is an artist and illustrator born in Copenhagen, currently based on a danish island called Bornholm.
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Ego is a Seattle based professional artist, using classical painting techniques to conjure intricately crafted portraits of macabre yet whimsical solitary outsiders. He feels a kind of kinship with these characters, as a socially-awkward extroverted introvert himself. The seemingly melancholy, yet somehow also charming figures he dreams up appear to dwell in the spaces somewhere between the natural and metaphysical worlds. In his work there is often a juxtaposition between the grim and endearing, the modern and classical, the real and the surreal.
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Dasha Pliska (Ukraine)
She primarily works in graphite, charcoal, and pencil, representing her drawing manner rough in texture but subtle in its accuracy. Her unique, shadowy world is inspired by mythology and nature. It has a solid base in reality but always leaning toward the spiritual realm.
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