Young artist

GIRLS IN REAL LIFE is an all-girl interview series profiling talented women working in art & culture.

Painting Lives and works in Kuwait City, Kuwait Featured in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar Arabia, visual artist Alymamah Rashed's surrealist paintings investigate the discourse of her own body as a Muslima Cyborg of the post-internet generation, fluctuating between the east and the west. Her art negotiates her female sub

Every painting tells a story. The paintings of Nigerian, Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby tell many.

Murabayashi Yuki is a talented young artist who has been selected to paint all the fusuma sliding doors at Taizoin Temple in Kyoto. Lucinda Cowing interviewed her for Kyoto Journal- article coming soon! 退蔵院ふすま絵プロジェクト

Artist Hope Gangloff captures the personalities of her friends and family in brightly colored large-scale portraits. Gangloff’s acrylic and collage paintings show her subjects in intimate settings—often domestic interiors—in poses of relaxation or quiet focus. The artist’s strong but gestural lines create defined shapes that are filled with repetitive marks and bright patterns. Gangloff gives equal textural attention to all areas of the painting, which draws the viewer’s eye to every detail…

"I want to portray empowered females with influence of mythology, history and contemporary times," Rapp explains. "Kind of like an underlying Venus in each piece. Strong and full of stories."

Howard University student Wilmer Wilson IV’s new work, “Domestic Exchange,” deals with the history and use of the paper bag in sculpture and performance.

To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what they are. But that didn't stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them. The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings

“Tengo tus poemas en mis manos y los leo a la luz del candil. Cuando terminó la lectura, la lámpara está moribunda y aún no nace el alba... 🖋️ Bai Juyi”