Colossal art

We are honored to have worked with artist Cinta Vidal on an exclusive release of the print edition of her 2017 painting, Urban Evening, available now in The Colossal Shop. In her latest series of paintings, Catalan artist Cinta Vidal (previously here and here) takes on the vast and complicated topic of industry: its omnipresence, its normalizationContinue reading "Colossal x Cinta Vidal Print Release: Urban Evening"

Giant Humans Overtake Landscapes in Guillaume Chiron’s Clever Collages

In his portraits, Brazilian artist Rafael Silveira conveys the permeation of emotions through surreal phenomena.

Artist Kathleen Ryan creates a conversation between the beautiful and the grotesque in her oversized sculptures of mold-covered fruit. The New York-based artist uses precious and semi-precious stones like malachite, opal, and smoky quartz to form the simulacrum of common green rot on each fruit. Working at a larger-than-life scale, Ryan creates a foam base,Continue reading "Moldy Fruit Sculptures Formed From Precious Gemstones Challenge Perceptions of Decoration and Decay"

Brooklyn-based artist Guno Park evokes the tradition of memento mori with an exquisite new drawing highlighting the precarious line between life and death. Titled “Nature of Things,” the meticulously crosshatched piece rendered in graphite stands at a striking 85 inches, portraying the oversized human figure with botanicals winding around its spinal column and through itsContinue reading "Vines and Flowers Intertwine with an Imposing Skeleton in an Elegant Graphite Drawing by Guno Park"

Surrounding Black children with jumbled masses of cartoon characters, doodles, and explosions of color, Chicago-based artist Kayla Mahaffey (previously) imagines adolescent daydreams and an array of playtime inventions. She infuses her acrylic paintings with a longing for carefree summer days, mornings spent watching the foibles of favorite animated characters, and hours left open for adventure,Continue reading "Evoking Childhood Nostalgia, Color and Cartoon Commotion Burst from Kayla…

The artist uses scale through showing the viewer a known small animal, like a chick, as significantly larger especially when compared to the man. The artist takes something the viewer knows and makes it unfamiliar.

Japanese artist Naoto Hattori imagines small fluffy animals with healthy doses of fantasy and some unnatural hybridization. The painted creatures often feature round heads and disproportionately large and reflective eyes. Cat-birds with mushrooms growing on their furry heads and other mashup beasts toe the line between whimsical and eerie thanks to large eyes that revealContinue reading "Hybrid Creatures with Oversized Eyes Reflect Imagined Landscapes in Surreal Paintings by Haoto Nattori"