New art thread for 2024 starts here! This is a mostly daily thread with a different artist featured in each post, primarily modern and contemporary stuff since that's my thing.
Paintings by London-based Indian artist Raqib Shaw, 2010s-20s, known for his complex depictions of fantasy worlds combining a range of influences - including decorative arts traditions and Western masters like Bosch and Holbein, as well as satirical elements.
Mixed media works by Palestinian artist Laila Shawa, 1980s-2010s, whose practice explored political and cultural themes drawn from her own experiences. In 1985 she founded the Rashad Shawa Cultural Center in her home city of Gaza, but it was targeted and destroyed by IDF bombing in 2023.
An experimental mixed media painting using handmade plant-based watercolors and inks from @SoMK with gouache and colored pencil on 9x12" hotpress paper.
Bi-colored boletes, wood frog, white dotted prominent moth, an eastern red centipede and a pleasing fungus beetle with a clump of moss and lichens.
@asheillustrates I love this portrait I painted a few years ago in large part for the story behind the piece. The subject is a retired auto worker who, through her union, was able to help get a women's restroom on the factory floor and do other amazing things for colleagues! I painted her for a book about community organizing that recently came out.