Andreas Gefeller

Like another German photographer named Andreas, Andreas Gefeller’s very large-scale color photographs are both beautifully simple and crammed with detail. By rigging his camera from a height of 6-7 feet and at a 90-degree angle to a surface, he photographs every inch of his chosen environment. He then transforms all the images into a grid, which are stitched together digitally to form the final photograph. …

Miranda Donovan

British artist Miranda Donovan apparently finds herself at a dead end on a daily basis. In this case it's not a lack of inspiration but rather a source of it, leading her to an interesting interpretation of landscape painting. Expanses of brick wall cover her canvases almost like the enormous skies of Dutch landscape paintings, with graffiti hovering like heavy clouds. The small detailed landscapes …

Beautiful Decay Issue R: Richard Stipl

If you missed this year's Scope New York, Beautiful Decay worked with Scope to feature some participating artists showing at the 2007 fair in their issue "R." One that caught our eye there and that's also in the magazine is Richard Stipl, a Czechoslovakian-born painter and sculptor. Similar in to the plasticine realism of Ron Mueck's work, Stipl uses himself as a model to create …