Volume 18
Friend of The Artist aims to create a supportive ecosystem for artists from around the globe, by shining a spotlight on emerging talent, and sharing their work with a wider audience through its volumes juried by art world insiders, published artist interviews, and social media features. Volume 18's jury panel includes a dynamic and international group of curators, museum directors, and gallerists.
Drawing from cinema and popular iconography, Pogossova creates imagined objects and spaces that exist in the space between reality and fiction. Her work explores how cultural references can authorize belief trigger interpretations, and habituated ways of seeing.
California-based Randy Jayne Rosenberg addresses timely content-driven themes in both her art practice and her curatorial work. As a curator, she has produced collections and numerous exhibitions for The World Bank; the United Nations; the Dalai Lama Foundation and the nonprofit, Art Works for Change.
Born in Costa Rica and based in Mexico City, Melissa Ríos works primarily in painting and drawing. Mining the fertile ground between figuration and abstraction, Ríos draws on feminist, literary, and surrealist understandings of reality and its representation.
Not all flowers smell sweet, and CJ Hendry’s flowers appeal to a different sense. Lovely to look at and soft to the touch, Hendry’s Flower Market features plush and brightly colored flowers made entirely of fabric.
Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is an artist, educator and designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Best known for her home spun and hand knitted ‘khadi’ sculptures using ‘kala cotton’ - an inherently organic cotton strain indigenous to India, her work is at an intersection of material memory, sustainability and intergenerational dialogue.
Kentucky-based artist Jeremy Booth boldly captures the essence of the Wild West with daring minimalism in his art. Focused primarily on iconic cowboys and Western landscapes, his work embodies the spirit of resilience and adventure inherent in the Wild West. His bold and minimal style captures the West in a cinematic, colorful, and surprising manner.
Brent Estabrook (b. 1985) is an American artist known for his large-scale, colorful oil paintings of stuffed animals. His artistic journey began by turning frustration over student debt into paintings of enlarged currencies, leading to a career breakthrough and has since evolved through realism, hyperrealism, abstract, and surrealism.
Secret Walls is revolutionizing the art world with its exhilarating live paint battles that captivate audiences and showcase the extraordinary talent of artists from around the globe. We had the pleasure to interview founder, Terry Guy, to hear about it's innovative "paint battles" it began in 2006, exciting brand partnershipships, and what's in store over it's next 20 years.
Montreal-based artist FVCKRENDER, aka Frédéric Duquette, pushes the boundaries of imagination and technology while blurring the lines between the physical and virtual worlds through his ambitious experiential art.
FOA’s Laura Day Webb in conversation with Classical African Art Dealer, Cole Harrell on his latest exhibition “FEMME” now on view through June 30th date at Harrell Fine Art in NYC
With painted murals from the Swiss Alps to his recent work at Wynwood Walls in Miami, Greg Mike has certainly made his mark on the world. Mike is known for his signature characters, bold street art, mural paintings, and Loudmouf icon, which blends colorful designs with pop culture.
Paola de la Calle is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist whose work examines home, identity, borders, and nostalgia through the use of textiles, printmaking, and sculpture. In her practice, De la Calle combines photographs sourced from family albums and found images which she prints on textiles
Mary Lai is a multifaceted artist based in Los Angeles, California, whose show 'Synchronicity' just opened the Art Room in LA. Her outlook is that “Art is a universal language that can speak to anyone” and her dreamer mindset is reflected in her vibrant contemporary artwork that aims to uplift and evoke emotion.
In her new body of work, Anne von Feyburg pushes the boundaries of her practice by challenging the scale and dimension of the Rocco-era masterpieces she reinterprets. Papillotage is on view until February 14th
Dan Lam is an internationally acclaimed artist based in Dallas, Texas. On December 16th, Lam will reveal a new body of work in Guttation, a solo show at Hashimoto Contemporary in New York.
Boasting of sold-out exhibitions in New York, LA, Paris, and Hong Kong, Matt Gondek shares the secrets behind his successful career and latest work.
Friend of The Artist is dedicated to elevating the work of emerging artists from around the world. In our printed books, we invite jurors to help us select the top emerging artists who work in a variety of mediums. Each volume showcases the diversity of aesthetics and ideas that artists are exploring. The community we create is just as important as the book itself. By working with and interviewing artists and curators from around the world, we've forged an international community where ideas and ways of working are put on display and relationships are formed.
