I thrive on fear. I live to feel my heart quicken and my bones shake. The monotype prints of artist Grady Gordon instal a fear which I haven't felt in a good while. if I were to cut my finger, nothing would happen. Gorden's gorgeously terrifying visions have frozen the blood inside my arteries.
There's a fairy tale aura surrounding the work of German photographer Katharina Jung.
There's a beautiful, yet dark sacredness to the work of New York based artist Leilani Bustamante.
The photography of polish artist Maciej Goraczko is exactly the sort of extreme dark art that Wyrd Words & Effigies was set up to celebrate. As I scrolled through his work, my excitement became almost too much to handle.
People say love is a strong word. Well, it doesn't seem strong enough to adequately describe how I feel about these black and white waterolours from Indonesian artist Elicia Edijanto.
I haven't been able to stop thinking about the work of Italian contemporary sculptor Livio Scarpella since I first encountered it a few days ago. His ghostly sculptures, craved from stone (extremely hard to believe) and embedded with crystals have a living human delicacy about them. I feel that if I were to place a… Continue reading Veiled Ghosts
Loving the ghostliness of Susan Burnstine's photography.
Enjoying the eerie, stunningly grotesque work of Japanese artist Fuyuko Matsui. Her work leaves a lasting feeling of fear.
Brian Luong is an artist with an extremely diverse output. I'm especially attracted to his darker works.
After a few days of studying the art work of Erika Sanada, I'm still finding it hard to believe that her disturbing series 'Odd Things' has been crafted using ceramics. Her curious creatures are a reflection of her sensitive mind, her bitter childhood and current anxieties.
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 