Pinar Yolacan: Maria

Poignant, compelling and startling, artist Pinar Yolacan's photographs of Afro-Brazilian women living on the northern Brazilian island of Ithaparica and dressed in clothing she created from animal insides and fabric are the focus of her 22-piece show at Rivington Arms, which just opened in New York last week. Yolacan cast women from the ages of 27 to 90 as her subjects after being inspired by …

Samuel Sparrow

Samuel Sparrow, a Glasgow-based artist who's exhibited recently in Sweden, Scotland and England, has some recently completed new pieces. An accomplished illustrator, he's contributed periodicals like Rant and Bearded Magazineamong others. If you're passing through Stockholm before Sunday, he's also one of the featured creative minds being featured at an exhibition being held inside a former downtown cinema that's been converted into an Urban Outfitters …

David Reed

It's either the eye-pop effect of his palette or the graffiti tag sensibility of the brushstrokes that endear David Reed's new paintings to me. They just seem familiar. In what can feel like an austere and exclusive world of high culture and Chelsea art openings, his solo show opened with a mix of 20-something hipsters and beret-topped collectors. So it seemed like Reed achieved what …