August Vilella creates oil paintings by means of a surreal-intuitive method. Thanks to this method and without using any previous sketches or ideas, he tries to give shape to his past and future through the subconscious mind.
All in Contemporary Art
Jonny Niesche
Born 1972, Sydney, Australia Lives and works in Sydney.
Alberto Giacometti at Tate Modern
Some years ago, an animated short directed by the indie filmmaker Sam Chen was released. “Eternal Gaze” is a journey through one of the most important artists (or one of the greatest, as said in the premise of the movie) of the last Century: Alberto Giacometti.
Dave Bopp
Dave Bopp’s (1988, Basel, Switzerland) colorful works with acrylic resin paint on aluminium leave the viewer disoriented and wondering.
Jonathan Wateridge
Jonathan Wateridge's paintings are elaborately crafted 'non-events' that have the trappings of a real occurrence but for the most part are entirely fabricated.
Jörg Galka-Teisseyre
Jörg Galka-Teisseyre spent his childhood and youth in the German city of Paderborn, where he was born on 16 of august 1962.
Casey Weldon
Casey Weldon is an american artist born in southern California now based in New York, where he works as an illustrator. Weldon is known for the use of melancholy and humor into his pop-surrealist view.
Andrew Hem
Raised in Los Angeles, Andrew Hem’s illustrative paintings bridge disparate aesthetic influences as well as cultural touchstones and sensibilities.
Joel Rea
Joel Rea was born in 1983 and graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2003. He has exhibited his paintings through out Australia for the last 13 years featuring also in notable overseas exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Ryan Heshka
Ryan Heshka was born in Manitoba, Canada, and grew up in Winnipeg. Fueled by long prairie winters, he spent a lot of his childhood drawing, building cardboard cities and making super 8 films. Early influences that persist to this day include antiquated comics and pulp magazines, natural history, graphic design and music, movies and animation.
Sebastian Wahl
Sebastian Wahl has made it his mission in life to take collage to new and uncharted territories.Wahl’s work encompasses everything from psychedelic landscapes to iconic, mandalic and spiritual surrealism. His attention to detail and sense of symmetry, balance and color bring all the elements included in his pieces together to create countless harmonious mirages.
Tropical Sighs by Caroline Gavazzi
A series of abstract, impressionist photographs which explore the world of tropical plants living behind glass.
Winnie Truong
Winnie Truong is a Toronto based artist working in pencil crayons on paper to produce large scale portraits that challenge our ideas of beauty and discomfort.
Barbara Egin
Barbara Egin is above all interested in people, and depictions of women constitute a major part of her oeuvre. Her female protagonists are not struggling to emancipate themselves, however, nor are they to be understood as sociocultural gender constructions. They are at once confident and uncertain, strong and vulnerable.
“IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT DYING” An Interview with Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele
Between May 24 and June 10, OJ hosted the first duo exhibition of two young Italian artists, Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele, entitled “It won't only kill you, it will hurt the whole time you're dying". Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele are both artists based in Milan,IT. We came together with the artists to talk more about themselves and their upcoming show in OJ.
Venice Biennale 2017: Instagram Blockbusters and Must-See Pavilions
"Faust" by German artist Anne Imhof has long hours of few-seconds-videos on Instagram. This fractioned narrative hides unutterable sensations: a prison-style fence surrounds the external area, leading to the strained experience even before the actual performance; the pavilion reverberates frightful echoes, imperceptible by microphones; the internal structure is times bigger and higher than the lens can reveal but the numerous visitors contribute to claustrophobia, just to point a few elements that an insider can describe.
Femke Hiemstra
Originally an illustrator for Dutch magazines, pop surrealist artist Femke Hiemstra's works became so elaborate that she then turned her hand to fine art. Within her paintings she portrays a Grimm-esque world, where highly detailed animal characters are set against dark, surreal settings.
Nicola Kloosterman
Nicola Kloosterman (Johannesburg, 1976) is an analog collage artist from the Netherlands who works with found imagery. Her subjects vary from fragmented female figures and faces to landscapes, nature and abstracts made with coloured paper and textiles cut from fashion magazines. Her collages explore concepts of (in)visibility, perception and feminine power.
Tom French
Tom French is a highly collectible and well-regarded British artist whose powerful monochromatic canvases are driven by his efforts to engage with the subconscious, and a rigorous pursuit of truth.
Eva Rossi-Kivimaki
'My art is an expression of how the mysteries of life affect me, the materials direct me to which mystery, the night sky, joy, birth, nature and energies that surround us, the "the Cosmic Loneliness", serenity, peace, love...' -Eva Rossi-Kivimakii