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Saturday
Nov222025

Keita Morimoto 'Evening Embers' Print Available

Artist: Keita Morimoto
Title: Evening Embers
Medium: Gold Shimmer Layer on Giclee Print
Size: 53 x 65 cm
Edition: TIMED
Price: €817

 

*available for 48 hours at 8am EST on December 9th, 2025

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Keita Morimoto is a celebrated Japanese contemporary painter, renowned for his evocative cityscapes and portraits that merge classical painting techniques with scenes of modern urban life. Born in Osaka in 1990, he immigrated to Canada as a teenager, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University in Toronto in 2012, before eventually returning to Tokyo in 2021 where he is currently based. 
Morimoto's distinctive style is characterized by his mastery of chiaroscuro the dramatic use of light and shadow drawing inspiration from Dutch Golden Age painters like Rembrandt and early 20th-century American Realist Edward Hopper. He uses these historical methods to illuminate contemporary subjects, such as neon signs, vending machines, and lonely street corners, transforming everyday urban scenes into something mysterious and profound. His work often explores themes of urban isolation and the search for human connection amidst consumer culture, creating a "cinematic quality" in his compositions. 
His paintings, which incorporate subtle references to anime and street fashion, have been widely exhibited internationally and are part of numerous permanent collections, including the High Museum of Art and the ICA Miami.
Wednesday
Nov122025

Judy Chicago 'Reincarnation' Triptych Available

Artist: Judy Chicago
Title: Reincarnation (Triptych)
Medium: Sparkle Gloss Varnished 24 Color Screen Print
Size: 105 x 44 cm
Edition: 50
Price: €3,025 

 

Judy Chicago is an American artist, educator and writer born in 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, celebrated for her pioneering role in feminist art and her commitment to exploring the female experience through bold, collaborative works. Trained at UCLA, she challenged the male-dominated art world by creating powerful pieces that celebrate women’s history, sexuality and creativity. Her most famous work, The Dinner Party (1974-79), is a monumental installation featuring a triangular table with 39 elaborate place settings dedicated to significant women from history and mythology, each rendered in ceramics, textiles and embroidery, merging craft with fine art to elevate traditionally feminine skills.
Chicago’s practice spans painting, sculpture, installation and performance, often employing vivid colours and symbolic forms to confront taboos and reclaim female narratives. Her Birth Project (1980-85) involved hundreds of volunteers in creating textile pieces depicting childbirth, while The Holocaust Project (1985-93) explored genocide through tapestry and stained glass, demonstrating her ability to tackle complex historical subjects with emotional depth and visual impact.
A dedicated educator, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at Fresno State College in 1970, inspiring generations of artists to question gender roles and institutional power. Her teaching emphasized collaboration, personal narrative and the validation of craft as high art, breaking down barriers between disciplines and hierarchies.
Today, Chicago continues to create and advocate, producing works that address climate change, ageing and the ongoing struggle for gender equality. Her art is held in major museums worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Tate Modern. Through her unwavering commitment to feminist principles and collaborative practice, Judy Chicago has transformed contemporary art, ensuring that women’s voices and experiences are seen, heard and celebrated.
Thursday
Oct302025

James Jean 'Sun Tarot Series' Early Access Open

Artist: James Jean
Title: Sun Tarot Series
Medium: Giclee Prints and Resin Sculptures
Size: Various
Edition: Various
Price: Various

*early access only open until 1pm EST on Friday October 31st, 2025

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James Jean is a Taiwanese-American visual artist celebrated for intricate, dreamlike works that merge Art Nouveau elegance with contemporary surrealism. Born in Taiwan in 1979 and raised in New Jersey, he trained at New York’s School of Visual Arts, graduating in 2001. He rocketed to prominence as a comic-book cover illustrator for DC/Vertigo’s Fables and The Umbrella Academy, winning six Eisner Awards for his detailed, symbolic imagery.
Jean’s style is instantly recognizable: fluid, curvilinear forms intertwine with botanical motifs, anatomical fragments and mythic creatures, all rendered in fine, jewel-like lines. Early influences include Chinese silk scrolls, Japanese woodblock prints, Alphonse Mucha and Hokusai, yet he filters these sources through a modern lens, creating kaleidoscopic worlds that feel both ancient and futuristic. After a decade in commercial illustration for clients such as Prada, Time, Rolling Stone, My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park, he pivoted to fine art in 2008, producing large-scale acrylic paintings and digital prints.
Working from a Frank Gehry-designed Los Angeles studio, he layers translucent washes over meticulous ink drawing, allowing pigment to pool and bleed, forming accidental galaxies that echo natural decay. This tension between precision and entropy mirrors his thematic interest in memory, myth and the collapse of historical time. Recent exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Tokyo have sold out, while fashion collaborations with Prada and a BTS-themed installation at HYBE Insight Museum extend his reach into global pop culture.
Whether crafting a monumental mural or a tiny ballpoint sketch, Jean seeks what he calls “the hallucinatory forms” buried in the mind, inviting viewers to lose themselves in ornate, endlessly unfolding tableaux where past and present, beauty and unease, dissolve into luminous color.
Tuesday
Oct212025

James Jean 'Sun Tarot Nebula' Print Release Details

Artist: James Jean
Title: Sun Tarot Nebula
Medium: Spot Varnished FancyAF Embossed Giclee
Size: 9 x 12.5 Inches
Edition: TIMED
Price: €375

*available at 1pm EST on Friday October 31st

Tuesday
Oct212025

James Jean 'Sun Tarot Nebula Pollen' Print Release Details

Artist: James Jean
Title: Sun Tarot Nebula Pollen
Medium: Spot Varnished FancyAF Embossed Giclee
Size: 9 x 12.5 Inches
Edition: TIMED
Price: €375

*available at 1pm EST on Friday October 31st

Tuesday
Oct212025

James Jean 'Sun Tarot Nebula Nectar' Print Release Details

Artist: James Jean
Title: Sun Tarot Nebula Nectar
Medium: Spot Varnished FancyAF Embossed Giclee
Size: 9 x 12.5 Inches
Edition: TIMED
Price: €375

*available at 1pm EST on Friday October 31st

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James Jean is a Taiwanese-American artist born in 1979 who moves between illustration, painting and monumental installation with fluid grace. Raised in New Jersey and trained at New York’s School of Visual Arts, he first gained fame creating intricate covers for DC Comics’ Fables and The Umbrella Academy, winning six Eisner Awards for his combination of delicate line work and jewel toned atmosphere . In 2007 he stepped away from commercial deadlines to focus on gallery painting, producing large canvases where human forms melt into blooming flora, rippling water and geometric shards, suggesting dreams caught mid transformation.
His relationship with Takashi Murakami is built on mutual admiration rather than pupilage. Murakami invited Jean to join the 2016 group show Juxtapoz x Superflat at Vancouver Art Gallery, placing Jean’s painting Bouquet at the centre of the exhibition branding . Murakami later curated Azimuth, Jean’s 2018 solo show at Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo, writing that Jean’s narrative drawings possess “a language original to his brain” and praising his ability to dissolve the boundary between illustration and high art . The two artists share an interest in flattening hierarchies: Murakami’s Superflat merges pop culture and fine art, while Jean fuses Renaissance detail, Chinese scroll painting and street art energy into luminous contemporary mythologies.
Today Jean lives in Los Angeles, where he continues to paint, publish limited prints and create immersive stained glass installations, proving that stories can glow as brightly on gallery walls as they once did on comic book covers.

 

Monday
Oct202025

Ai Weiwei 'Forever Bicycle' (Blue + Silver) Print Release Details

Artist: Ai Weiwei
Title: Forever Bicycle (Blue + Silver)
Medium: Gold Leaf Embellished 3 Color Screen Print
Size: 75 x 75 cm
Edition: 100
Prices: €2,420

*application open until Monday November 17th, 2025

Monday
Oct202025

Ai Weiwei 'Forever Bicycle' (Red + Gold) Print Release Details

Artist: Ai Weiwei
Title: Forever Bicycle (Red + Gold)
Medium: Gold Leaf Embellished 3 Color Screen Print
Size: 75 x 75 cm
Edition: 100
Prices: €2,420

*application open until Monday November 17th, 2025

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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist, architect and activist born in Beijing in 1957 who uses sculpture, photography, film and social media to challenge authority and champion human rights. The son of poet Ai Qing, he grew up during the Cultural Revolution and later studied at Parsons School of Design in New York, where exposure to conceptual art shaped his belief that ideas carry more weight than objects. His best known works transform traditional materials into pointed political statements: Sunflower Seeds consists of one hundred million porcelain seeds hand painted by artisans in Jingdezhen, inviting viewers to consider mass labour and individuality, while Straight comprises ninety tons of rebar recovered from schools destroyed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, the bent metal painstakingly straightened to memorialise young lives lost to corruption.
Architecture is another arena of critique. He helped design Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics, yet later distanced himself from the project, calling the games a propaganda show. His subsequent installations often expose state surveillance: surveillance cameras cast in marble or bronze sit like silent idols, questioning who watches whom in modern society.
Detention in 2011 for eighty one days without charge intensified his global profile. Since regaining his passport he has lived in Portugal and Britain, continuing to produce work that links personal experience to universal themes of freedom and exile. Whether building a fence across New York landmarks or wrapping refugees in thermal blankets on Berlin concert hall steps, he insists that art must engage with the world beyond the gallery. By merging ancient craft with contemporary dissent, he proves creativity can be a powerful form of resistance.
Saturday
Oct182025

Joan Cornella 'Work Hard and Then Die' Print Release Details

Artist: Joan Cornella
Title: Work Hard and Then Die
Medium: Varnished Giclee Print with Glow In The Dark
Size: 43 x 60 cm
Edition: TIMED
Prices: €726

*available at 6am EST on Thursday October 23rd, 2025

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Joan Cornellà is a Spanish artist born in 1981 in Barcelona. He studied fine arts at the University of Barcelona and has become internationally known for his unsettling yet humorous visual narratives. Working primarily in acrylic on canvas and ink on paper Cornellà creates brightly colored minimalist figures that engage in absurd violent or taboo acts. His clean aesthetic recalls vintage advertising and classic comic strips yet the content subverts expectations with scenes of self harm deception and social hypocrisy rendered with deadpan smiles and vacant eyes. The contrast between cheerful palettes and disturbing subject matter forces viewers to confront uncomfortable truths about contemporary life including vanity cruelty and digital narcissism.

Cornellà began publishing comic strips in Spanish magazines before gaining viral fame through social media where his single panel images spread rapidly among audiences hungry for dark satire. Solo exhibitions in Hong Kong Taipei London New York Tokyo and Seoul have drawn long lines of fans eager to purchase prints books and merchandise featuring his instantly recognizable characters. Despite accusations of nihilism Cornellà insists his work is joyful arguing that laughter at tragedy is a healthy response to an absurd world. He continues to produce new paintings and comics daily sharing them with millions of followers online while preparing large scale installations that immerse viewers in his candy colored nightmare.

Sunday
Sep142025

Cleon Peterson 'Shame' Sculpture Pre-Sale Available

Artist: Cleon Peterson
Title: Shame
Medium: Resin Sculpture
Size: 10 x 9.6 x 5.8 Inches
Edition: TIMED
Prices: $776