LIFE

Artist Sage Vaughn explores the harmonic disparity between man and nature

In a new exhibition at LA’s Scion AV Installation space, artist Sage Vaughn questions the nature of human existence with contemplative works that juxtapose attractive and repulsive imagery. Appropriately titled, “LIFE” spans a bevy of media and allegorical iconography that showcase Vaughn’s interest in creating “a body of work inspired by a word that describes almost anything: it covers so much, it means nothing.” From …

Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo

Jan Fabre's bug-based series tackles King Leopold II's Congo

Sponsored content: One of the most captivating artists at Miami Art Week, Belgian artist Jan Fabre painstakingly creates massive allegorical works entirely out of naturally shedded jewel beetle wings. In the series “Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo,” he uses the biological emerald detritus to comment on the gruesome history of King Leopold II and the Congo Free State with dazzling and upsetting effect. Two …

Anew

Explore the beauty in everyday objects at United Photo Industries' group exhibition

In the same vein as Sam Hecht and Kim Colin’s thought-provoking book “Usefulness in Small Things,” the group photo exhibition Anew explores the beauty in everyday objects. Opening today at United Photo Industries in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood, the exhibit features nine photographers with an unconventional eye for revealing an underlying sense of magic in the otherwise banal. Focused on light, color, form and texture, each …