Asuka Ohsawa

Today’s special on Beautiful Decay: Asuka Ohsawa

Asuka Ohsawa masterfully uses gouache on paper to create a world rife with dichotomous flair. Long Japanese scroll paintings depict cute anthropomorphic animals frolicking the town in seeming innocence and naivete but upon closer inspection there is a child ready to detonate a bomb and a crowd ready to [...]

Tadashi Moriyama

Today’s special at Beautiful/Decay: Tadashi Moriyama

I found Tadashi Moriyama’s work during Bushwick Open Studios this past June and fell in love with the intricacy and obsessive mark making process that is evident in each ink and gouache work. Each painting is rife with apocalyptic imagery rendered in countless repetitions of a few motifs including waffle-like [...]

Elsewhere

- A reflection on the newly opened Transmitter Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

- Today’s special at Beautiful Decay: India Street Mural Project artist Chris Soria.

Helle Mardahl

Today’s special at Beautiful/Decay: Helle Mardahl

The works of Helle Mardahl vary in medium with paintings, sculpture and collaged photographs addressing human fallacies and inventive absurdities. The artist’s background in fashion is demonstrated by the precise coordination and arrangement of shape and color embodying the figures.
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