painting Archives — Colossal

Time and Geography Dissolve in Otherworldly Landscapes by Sholto Blissett

January 10, 2025

an aerial view of a giant rooftop mural of realistic butterflies arranged as if in a specimen case

Mantra’s Murals Collect Enormous Butterflies in Building-Size Specimen Cases

January 10, 2025

a hyperrealistic oil painting of a crinkled ornamental carpet

Tens of Thousands of Individual Dots Bring Ornamental Rugs to Life in Antonio Santín’s Paintings

January 9, 2025

a surreal oil painting of a woman in a pink dress, standing in a gray room holding a string, connected to an owl, with a painting in the background of a castle tower in a landscape

Gertrude Abercrombie’s Autobiographical Surrealism Traverses Dreams and Reality

January 6, 2025

the interior of Ron Gittins' apartment in Birkenhead, England, featuring a very ornate, hand-sculpted fireplace of a bull's head with murals all around on the walls

Near Liverpool, a One-of-a-Kind Art Environment by Ron Gittins Is Saved

January 3, 2025

a quilted figurative portrait of a group of Black women lounging in the sun on a sandy riverbank

In Paintings and Quilts, Stephen Towns Spotlights Black Leisure in the Jim Crow South

January 2, 2025

a large mural on the side of a building of a woman hanging out her laundry

Community, Traditions, and Resilience Ring Through New Public Works for Tbilisi Mural Fest

December 31, 2024

a detail of an installation of various handmade fur and seal skin mittens illuminated in a gallery

Sonya Kelliher-Combs Merges Collective Knowledge and Native Alaskan Heritage in Mixed Media

December 26, 2024

a vibrant gestural landscape in hues of green, yellow, pastel purple, and light blue

Through Gestural Acrylic Paintings, Maria Calandra Guides Her Stream of Consciousness Onto Canvas

December 21, 2024

a vibrant desert landscape that stretches into digital glitches

Psychedelic Distortions and Glitches Streak Across Alexis Mata’s Bold Paintings

December 20, 2024

a backpack sculpture with a spigot on the lower left and a branch with a squirrel and a pinecone emerging from the top right

Guadalupe Maravilla’s Volcanic Rock Sculptures Invoke Resilience and Regeneration

December 13, 2024

an abstract landscape painting with figures and rainbows interacting in a glen

Three Women Artists Gather for The Jaunt and Hashimoto Contemporary’s ‘Winter Camp’

December 12, 2024

the side view of a painting on wood and velvet of otherworldly pink and purple flowers behind an ornate barrier reminiscent of wrought iron

Fantastic Blooms Entwine with Sculptural Motifs in Mevlana Lipp’s Imagined World

December 10, 2024

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December 10, 2024

a science fiction-inspired painting of a giant orb covered in architectural elements and signs, hovering over a darkened, detritus-covered landscape

Masakatsu Sashie’s Mysterious Spheres Hover Over Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes

December 2, 2024