Valeria Vertii is a Ukrainian-born artist based in Paris who works across painting, drawing, metalwork, ceramics, and glass, moving so fluidly between mediums that she has trouble listing them all without leaving something out. She trained first as a painter and has spent the last several years pulling that foundation toward sculpture and installation, driven […]
From digital worlds to airbrushed paintings, Austin Lee explains why the future of art isn’t about technology, it’s about connection. Sitting in his Brooklyn studio surrounded by luminous canvases, airbrushes, sculptures, and computer screens, Austin Lee doesn’t describe art as a profession or even a practice. Instead, he describes it as a way of existing
For Portuguese painter Mafalda d’Oliveira Martins, painting is a way of understanding people. Working primarily in oil, Mafalda creates figurative paintings that explore memory, vulnerability, relationships, and the quiet moments that often pass unnoticed. While her paintings frequently begin with ordinary scenes or familiar faces, they become much more than records of reality. They are
