Fine artist

Hope Gangloff’s work stands out amongst traditional pieces of art and has progressively altered familiar museum spaces in order to incite engagement with new and present day artistic ideas. The New York City native and self-proclaimed “ham-fisted writer and a casual jerk” is primarily known for creating vivid and animated oil portraits of her friends in order to capture her perspective on the culture of American life. Gangloff’s study of art began at Cooper Union in New York and has since…

Alana Barton's paintings blend figurative and abstract elements to explore childhood and family relationships, evoking surreal, dreamlike states and nostalgia.

Channeling M.C. Escher and the Droste effect, more broadly, a Chicago-based artist has been painting portraits of himself painting portraits of himself. Seamus Wray, who’s appeared in a similar project shared on Colossal, began with a single representation (shown above) and mirrored his pose in a photograph of the work. He then repeated that process five times, which resulted in a recursive, mixed-media series that changes slightly with each iteration—two cats make an appearance in the final…

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Acclaimed Spanish artist Vicente Romero captures exquisite detail in his pastel paintings of semi-nude women with delicate light and emotive compositions.

EDITORIAL | Marina Abramović: A Fusion of Art and Fashion Marina Abramović, born on November 30, 1946, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), is a performance artist known for her groundbreaking works that push the boundaries of her own body and mind. In 1965, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade intending to study painting, however, her artistic path took a different turn when she became intrigued by the possibilities of performance art—specifically, the idea of using her…