New Contemporary Art

None of the artwork featured here is mine. Every post has a link to the artist's website or social media.

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Hayden Clay is a visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY. "I use 3D art to explore a variety of surreal ideas, often through simple natural themes such as water or clouds. I’m particularly interested in blurring the line between dreams and reality, creating sensations of strange tranquility."

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Dustin Yellin is a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist known for his richly layered storytelling that explores the intricate relationship between nature, technology, and the human condition. Working across mediums—including painting, sculpture, animation, and institutional collaboration—Yellin creates immersive, thought-provoking works that reveal the hidden networks connecting all living things. Internationally recognized for his groundbreaking glass sculptures, Yellin embeds layered imagery and paint within laminated glass to create visually complex, three-dimensional collages. These pieces function as modern-day pictographic allegories, inviting viewers to navigate the depths of personal consciousness and the broader societal structures we inhabit. His distinctive technique blurs the lines between art and science, imagination and reality.

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Ellen Jewett - "Plants and animals have always been the surface on which humans have etched the foundations of culture, sustenance, and identity. For myself, natural forms are a continual source of fascination and deep aesthetic pleasure. At first glance my work explores the more modern prosaic concept of nature: a source of serene nostalgia but this is balanced with the more visceral experience of 'wildness' as remarkably alien and indifferent. Upon closer inspection of each 'creature' the viewer may discover a frieze on which themes as familiar as domestication and as abrasive as domination fall into sharp relief. These qualities are not only present in the final work but are fleshed out in the process of building. Each sculpture is constructed using an additive technique, layered from inside to out by an accumulation of innumerable tiny components. Many of these components are microcosmic representations of plants, animals and objects. Some are beautiful, some are grotesque and some are fantastical. The singularity of each sculpture is the sum total of its small narrative structures."

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Matias Karsikas is a sculptor from Nivala, Finland. He works with glass and ceramics, constantly challenging and refining his complex methods. “Working with ceramics and glass feels like home rather than work. These are materials I want to spend all my spare time with. Ceramics enchant me repeatedly with their versatility. Exploring ceramics feels like navigating through complex terrain filled with endless possibilities. Glass and ceramics have an almost magical feeling to me. Opening a ceramic kiln or working with glass blowing often fills me with wonder. Sometimes working feels like playing make-believe as an alchemist when plain earth transforms into gold, the glow of emerald, and bubbling glass.”

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Hiroshi Furuyoshi was born in Hiroshima in 1959 where his parents ran an antiques shop. He spent his youth surrounded by all sorts of treasures and curiosities, which he naturally loved and unsurprisingly has always been drawn to depictions of curiosity cabinets. Furuyoshi is particularly interested in works from the Baroque and is intrigued by the exuberance and grandeur of the period. He has used these sources to create his own unique style, a style so ultra-realistic that the viewer wants to reach out to touch the objects in the cabinets.

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Lui Ferreyra has cultivated a distinctive technique which implements small geometric fragments that coalesce into complex color patterns. In their totality, these patterns reveal intelligible imagery— mostly that of landscapes and figures. But beyond subject-matter, his paintings call attention to the cognitive act of transposing visual perception onto a two-dimensional surface.

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Papercraft Miniatures by Dan McPharlin

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JL King was born in San Francisco California and raised in a large multiethnic family. Her mother is Chinese American, her father is African American, and both were talented artists in the visual and performing arts. Early experiences and exposure in the art world left long lasting impressions which led her to pursue a career in health and science, however she maintained her creative practice in different mediums before committing her focus to oil painting. Sharp-focus detail is a lifelong endeavor she pursues to this day from her studio in the historic Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco, California.

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Ink and acrylic gouache works by Graham Yarrington

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Von Wolfe is a British artist of German and Polish descent. He studied Philosophy at York University and currently lives and works in London. Von Wolfe's process embodies the seamless interplay between the artist's practice as an oil painter and the forefront of technological innovation. Striking a balance between intuitive human discernment and a cutting-edge node-based system using diffusion models, the resulting works showcase astounding precision. The artist navigates the boundary between digital and tactile realms.

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Shannon Taylor is a painter, illustrator, craftsman and educator based out of Oakland, California. A highly prolific artist, Taylor has developed a style of watercolor that is distinctly her own, utilizing rich colors, layers of blending, dry-brushing, and pattern work, Taylor is constantly pushing and expanding on the possibilities of the medium. Often conjuring the decorative and figurative qualities of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and aesthetic movement, Taylor’s work is an exploration of beauty. In her paintings, heavy indigo skies are filled with stars, and flowers bloom from the backs of languid, lovely women, and tiny worlds can be held in your hand; the world that Taylor has made is gilt, prismatic, and lovingly wrought.

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Hand-carved woodblock paintings by Sthenjwa Luthuli

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Seth Haverkamp is an internationally acclaimed portrait artist. Known for his unique still lifes and portraits, Haverkamp derives his primary inspiration from beauty -- color, form, and the drama of light and dark. Along with interesting and unique still-life paintings Seth has done many commissioned portraits, but his chief subject and love is his children. They always take him to new heights of creativity and beauty.

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Katsuyo Aoki is a Japanese artist whose sculptural practice centers on ceramic materials. From the early stages of her practice, Aoki has engaged with elements such as ornamentation, craftsmanship, and narrative. By working with ceramics—a material historically deeply connected to these traditions—she reintroduces and reconsiders them within a contemporary context. Drawing on a wide range of decorative styles, Aoki creates porcelain works whose surfaces are both intricate and subtly unstable in appearance. Their excessive ornamentation suggests a tension between external form and the inner condition of human beings. Through these works, she reflects on the contemporary condition of human nature, particularly in relation to our perception of life and death.

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Chet Zar's interest in the darker side of art began in the earliest stages of his life. A natural fascination with all things strange fostered within himself a deep connection to horror movies and dark imagery. He could relate to the feelings of fear, anxiety and isolation that they conveyed. These are themes which had permeated most of his childhood drawings and paintings and are reflected in his work to this day.

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Giuseppe Scarangelli is an Italian artist whose practice is shaped by a multidisciplinary background and a strong interest in psychological and relational dynamics. His painting practice centers on notions of relationship, interdependence, and embodied presence. Through fluid gestures and layered, material surfaces, painting becomes a relational field in which bodies—real or implied—intertwine and affect one another. Rather than depicting the body, his work absorbs its rhythm and tension, situating itself in a suspended space between physicality and perception, where matter becomes a carrier of psychological and emotional resonance.

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Julia Lundman is an artist in San Francisco, creating paintings and drawings inspired by myth, folklore and fantasy. “My work is an exploration of all of the mysterious fantasy worlds I read  about and drew as a child, fairies, myth, legends, animals - all of the fascinating creatures I was introduced to in Narnia and Greek Myth. I am interested in revisiting these inspirations with the depth of experience as an adult, thinking about how I can retell beloved subjects with nuance and personal meaning. I work in my studio daily using traditional methods I’ve learned from years of study. I am currently working in mixed media using water based, non toxic materials on paper mounted on hardboard, sometimes utilizing gilded metal accents.”