From The Comics Journal #134, February 1990.

Fever Ray, illustrations by Steve Cutts

Ana Martins, the 22-year-old Portuguese artist and graphic embroiderer fell in love with textiles while working on her bachelor’s degree in graphic design, and now she works to “deconstruct, decontextualize and transform a traditional technique into a modern graphic, connecting cultures and generations.”

Artist Julien de Casabianca pastes famous neoclassical paintings onto unexpected, inner-city surfaces as part of his ongoing Outings Project.

Australian artist Michael Pederson, better known as ‘Miguel Marquez Outside,’ isn’t interested in art galleries. He prefers to hide his strange and witty signs throughout cities like Sydney to be noticed and enjoyed by the public. If all the official signage that can be found around an average city bores you, you might not even notice the ones that are a little bit off, warning you of dangerous pigeons and tiny sinkholes.

Groundbreaking Channel 4 series from 1998 exploring Outsider Art, in which Jarvis Cocker travels the globe in search of large-scale visionary environments. [All three episodes inside the snap.]

Brian Coldrick is an Irish illustrator and the artist behind a series of eerie comic series called “Behind You: One-Shot Horror Stories.” Keep in mind that the artist doesn’t need many panels to scare you – he only needs one. By Aušrys Uptas.

Outsider artist Betye Saar.

Artist Meg Saligman created the "Common Threads" mural.

Mr. Hendricks, known for both his sky paintings and his experiments in art as performance, was also a longtime teacher at Rutgers. By Neil Genzlinger.

The Hamburg based artist of Norwegian descent creates magnificent sculptures inspired from fine arts, mythology and sculptures in the ancient periods which he then casts with a dark, elegant twist resulting in minimal yet striking creations.

Park Güell is the reflection of Gaudí's artistic plenitude, which belongs to his naturalist phase.

Even in a world of omnipresent surveillance technology, old-fashioned pencil artists help police catch bad guys.

Civil rights activist Rodney Barnette was under government surveillance for over 10 years. Now his daughter, Sadie, has turned his 500-page FBI file into art.

If Ramón y Cajal’s medical renown was partly a product of his artistry, then his drawings’ aesthetic virtues can’t be separated from their effectiveness as scientific documents. By Jackson Arn.

Hyperbolic is a wild exterior growth that wraps around the art nouveau façade of a 100 years old building. Crystal Wagner is known for her large-scale mixed-media installations using a variety of materials like braided nylon, wire mesh, and cable ties that create colorful forms affixed to buildings or suspended from galleries.

Working only with layers of painted galvanized wire atop steel armature, UK artist Kendra Haste creates faithful reproductions.

Incredible makeup artist.

Serbian artist Endre Penovác masterfully captures the charm of animals with his expressive brush strokes and gestural marks.