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Through Otherworldly Forms: Thomas McCue’s Biomechanical Mythologies
There is a world at play beneath the surface of Thomas McCue’s paintings—a world where color, form, and invention collide in breathtakingly strange and mesmerizing ways. Working with oil on canvas, McCue crafts dense, abstract compositions that pulse with the energy of life in transformation. In works like Broken Hornets,…
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Own Soul’s Warning: Michelle Peterlin’s Mythic Meditation on Choice and Chaos
A storm brews beneath a golden field. A tree heavy with temptation casts its roots into a dark, trembling world. And at its base, a lone figure—nude, fragile, and curled inward—sits on the edge of rupture. Michelle Peterlin’s Own Soul’s Warning is not just a painting; it is a reckoning.…
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A Time 4 Us: Water Kerner’s Lyrical Lamentation on Loss and Reckoning
A slab of scorched earth floats like a discarded memory—neither fully anchored in the real world nor entirely imagined. On it, a white polar bear bends toward a porcelain ashtray as if searching for water, nourishment, or perhaps meaning. Behind the bear, a cluster of darkened, charred trees stands sentinel…
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Christopher Robins by David Poyant: A Threaded Ode to Wonder, Memory, and the Earth
There is something timeless and tender in David Poyant’s Christopher Robins, a hand-embroidered marvel selected for the 5th annual Earth 2025 international smart exhibition. At first glance, the viewer might think they are seeing a painting. But look closer, and the intricate texture of embroidery reveals itself—each leaf, ray of…
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Aunt Mary by Cher Pruys: A Tribute Etched in Time and Tenderness
The gentle grace of aging is rarely captured with such breathtaking honesty and emotional resonance as it is in Cher Pruys’ Aunt Mary. With this deeply personal and universally touching acrylic painting, selected for the Passage of Life: Aging 2025 international smart exhibition, Pruys offers us more than a portrait—she…
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Two Children by Mai Văn Nhơn: A Manifesto of Innocence and Urgency
In Two Children, Vietnamese artist Mai Văn Nhơn channels a vision that is both harrowing and hopeful—etched not just into stainless steel, but into the viewer’s conscience. Selected for the 2nd Annual TOYS and JOYS 2025 international smart exhibition, this remarkable mixed media piece confronts the paradox of childhood innocence…
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Doodle 101: The Ice Within – A Review of Dan Holt’s Intricate Abstraction
There are artworks that whisper, and then there are those that echo—resonating across the quiet chambers of the mind with a pulse so intricate that one can’t help but lean in. Dan Holt’s Doodle 101, a pencil drawing selected for the 2nd Annual Abstraction 2025 international smart exhibition, does precisely…
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Earth and Clouds: A Lyrical Terrain by Ella Boughton
With Earth and Clouds, Ella Boughton delivers more than an acrylic landscape—she offers a metaphysical journey into the soul of the planet, interpreted through the flowing anatomy of abstraction. In this breathtaking work selected for the 2nd Annual Abstraction 2025 international smart exhibition, Boughton reimagines Earth not as a static…
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Tiny Wings: Eunji Li’s Poetic Meditation on Fragility and Becoming
Delicate as a whisper and profound as a turning tide, Tiny Wings by Eunji Li takes flight in the 5th Annual Woman 2025 International Smart Exhibition as a quietly powerful exploration of womanhood, transformation, and inner strength. This 21×14 inch mixed media illustration captures the nuanced moment between stillness and…
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Our Children’s Inheritance: Diane Bywaters’ Assemblage of Warning and Wonder
A spiral of bone and shell, a toy-sized skeleton rowing a boat, and a bound bronze sphere dragging behind—a strange and evocative scene unfolds in Diane Bywaters’ Our Children’s Inheritance. At first glance, it may appear whimsical or even playful. But linger, and its truth surfaces: this is no innocent…
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