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Thursday
Oct302025

Shawn Huckins 'Beaver Moon' Print Release Details

Artist: Shawn Huckins
Title: Beaver Moon
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 23 x 27.5 Inches
Edition: 35
Price: £600

*available at 11am EST on Thursday November 13th, 2025

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Shawn Huckins is a New Hampshire born painter who cracks open American mythmaking with a wink. After earning a BA in Studio Art from Keene State College and the University of Wollongong in 2006, he began meticulously recreating eighteenth-century portraits, then slipping twenty-first-century text beneath powdered wigs: LOL, BRB, tweets and emoji float across colonial faces like digital ectoplasm. The collision is both joke and inquiry, asking whether emojis erode the eloquence that once fueled revolution.
Working without Photoshop, Huckins projects archival images onto linen, masks off crisp lettering with tape, and builds luminous skin tones through weeks of glazing, ensuring every serif and beauty mark is hand-painted. Recent series conceal sitters behind vibrant quilts or Roman busts shattered on the floor, suggesting history is a comforting blanket and a crumbling weight we simultaneously hide behind and drag forward.
Exhibitions at Richard Heller Gallery, Duran Mashaal Montréal and K Contemporary Denver regularly sell out, while museums such as Boston MFA and Tucson Museum of Art have added his canvases to permanent collections. Grants from the Haven Foundation and Colorado Creative Industries support his practice, yet he still posts studio jokes to Instagram, believing humor is the fastest bridge between art and audience. Whether depicting George Washington with a notification bubble or draping founding fathers in psychedelic fabric, Huckins insists that laughter can open a back door to critical thought, inviting viewers to chuckle first and question second how a nation so eloquent at birth now speaks in disappearing stories.
Tuesday
Oct142025

Delia Hamer 'Hemispheres' Print Release Details

Artist: Delia Hamer
Title: Hemispheres
Medium: Gold Leaf Embellished Giclee Print
Size: 62 x 62 cm
Edition: 30
Price: £550

  

*available Thursday October 23rd, 2025

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Delia Hamer is a German born artist who grew up in the countryside of southern Spain. She studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and later completed her Masters in London. Hamer now lives and works in Amsterdam where she creates paintings that merge texture and liquidity through a mix of acrylic oil pastel pencil and paper collage techniques. Her vibrant color palette reflects the intense light and atmosphere of the Mediterranean coast where she spent her formative years.

Hamer’s work explores themes of memory identity and the passage of time often layering translucent washes and torn paper fragments to build dreamlike scenes that hover between abstraction and figuration. She has exhibited in solo and group shows across Europe including recent presentations titled Rinse My Soul and Fluye Sin Cesar. Her canvases invite viewers to linger discovering hidden faces botanical forms and fragments of text that suggest personal narratives. By blending drawing painting and collage Hamer constructs visual diaries that speak to the fluid nature of experience and the way places and moments leave lasting impressions on the psyche.

Wednesday
Oct082025

Lino Lago 'Fake Abstract' Print Available

Artist: Lino Lago
Title: Fake Abstract
Medium: Deckled Varnished Giclee Print
Size: 27 x 23 Inches
Edition: 45
Price: £595

 

Lino Lago (b. 1973, Redondela, Spain) is a Madrid-trained painter who stages elegant collisions between Old-Master finesse and digital-age minimalism. After graduating from the Universidad Complutense, he became fascinated by reports of painting’s “death,” responding with the long-running Fake Abstract series: meticulous oil reproductions of Renaissance and Bourbon portraits that he half-obscures with flat monochrome or gold-leaf swipes, leaving only a sliver of face or lace visible beneath a seemingly Photoshop generated mask. The device questions authenticity, value, and how screens mediate our contact with history. Technical rigor underpins the joke each passage of flesh is modeled with 18th century glazing, while the overlay is sanded to vinyl like smoothness, so brushstroke and pixel coexist on one skin.
Lago’s work has entered public collections including Harvard Business School and the Flint Institute of Arts, and has been shown at ARCO Madrid, Pulse Miami, and in solo exhibitions from New York to Copenhagen. Awards such as the BMW Painting Prize from the Queen of Spain and the Vilnius City Arts Award confirm institutional respect for his conceptual sleight of hand. Recent shows like Multipolar (2025) expand the lexicon, pitting Caravaggio against color field slabs to evoke a fragmented, many-centered cultural world. Living between Madrid and Vilnius, Lago continues to probe how much of the past we actually need to see before we admit the present has already re-written it.

 

Wednesday
Oct082025

Riikka Sormunen 'Holiday, 2025' Print Release Details

Artist: Riikka Sormunen
Title: Holiday, 2025
Medium: Deckled Varnished Giclee Print
Size: 20 x 20 Inches
Edition: 20
Price: £450

*available Thursday October 9th, 2025

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Riikka Sormunen (b. 1987, Helsinki) turns daydreams into jewel toned oil paintings where fashion-editorial poise meets surrealist unease. After a semester of fashion design she pivoted to illustration, building a clientele that ranged from Finnish magazines to Japanese apparel before committing solely to canvas in 2016. Working on unprimed linen, she applies thin, lucent layers of oil so crimsons and viridians bleed like textile dye, then tightens select zones lace cuffs, serpent scales, cat pupils to photographic clarity. The resulting images feel simultaneously vintage and hyper-contemporary: Klimt-like pattern fields float around blank-faced women who grip wilted bouquets or let goldfish dangle from their sleeves, every object posed as if for an unseen camera.
Influences converge in her studio: early Lucian Freud for fleshy tension, Ukiyo-e prints for flattened perspective, and Nordic folklore for latent darkness. Solo exhibitions at Allouche Gallery (LA) and Rhodes Contemporary (London) sold out rapidly, while group stints at Dallas Contemporary and the “Nordic Delights” tour confirmed international appetite. Recent pieces such as Ghost Friend and Cat’s Eye push scale toward life-size, intensifying the tension between decorative beauty and psychological vacancy. Sormunen photographs her own floral still-lifes as source material, then digitally distorts petals into acidic hues no garden could grow, reinforcing the calculated artificiality she calls “soft sensuality under surveillance.” Living back in Helsinki after residencies in Tokyo and Lisbon, she continues to probe how femininity, nature, and consumer imagery can be arranged then eerily silenced inside a single gilded frame.

 

Thursday
Dec152022

Cathy Tabbakh 'Don't Envy Green' Print Available

Artist: Cathy Tabbakh
Title: Don't Envy Green
Medium: Varnished Giclee Print
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Edition: 10
Price: £350