Istvan (known as Etienne) Sandorfi was born in Budapest in 1948 and died in 2007. His father was director of the American company, IBM, in Hungary. Because of this association he served five years in Stalinist prisons during the Communist regime and his family was deported to an isolated Hungarian village. At the time of the 1956 uprising the Sandorfi family fled the country and became expatriates, first in Germany, then in France.

Kate Nichols leans her delicate face against the glass of a chemical fume hood in a University of California, Berkeley lab, peering into a beaker filled with a pale yellow liquid—“like a well hydrated person’s pee,” she says, laughing. The yellow brew is a fresh batch of silver nanoparticles. Over the next week, the liquid will turn green, then turquoise, then blue as the particles morph in shape from spheroids to prisms under the influence of time and fluorescent light.

I tried my hand at painting for the first time in years. I thought it would be fun to follow a Bob Ross video. However, in the video, you need oil paints, several types of brushes and palette knives. This is the result after trying to use a bent plastic spoon as a knife and trying to lay down liquid acrylic instead of stiff oil paint. Fun times! Back to the drawer you go, ya bastards of art supplies!

Artist Rick Berry demonstrates his painting technique.

Attention all artists! In partnership with our friends at Squarespace, Hi-Fructose will be highlighting five artists who are currently using Squarespace for their website or portfolio, to be featured on HiFructose.com. This week we are featuring Ontario based artist Kit King, who in collaboration with her husband, creates large scale hyperrealistic oil paintings that portray her subjects in fragments. Her compositions feature tight crops of their faces, eyes, hands, and tattoos...

The painter Gustave Caillebotte captured a moment of radical transformation, as the Paris we know today took shape. Jason Farago takes a look.

Canadian artist Mark Heine is working on a series of oil paintings inspired by sirens, mythical maidens of the deep. Like his subjects, which are equally beautiful and haunting creatures, Heine’s paintings embody both beauty and feelings of unease. His work has inspired polarizing reactions; some viewers feeling discomfort, while leaving others entranced.

Yet another matte painting done :') It's a random location on Terrenus Domus (the planet the Dark Planet story takes place at). I have to get better at creating depth in these matte paintings though...

by Keng Lye

The iconic Bullgod in space

Alongside Jeff Soto's "Nightgardens" (covered here), Sashie Masakatsu made his debut solo exhibition at KP Projects/MKG in Los Angeles last weekend with "Blind Box." We featured Masakatsu's dis...

gallery director cat gardiner in conversation with ruth mclees on the occasion of her solo exhibition 'between two rivers' [12 june - 11 july 2015]

One of my favourite painters. His pictures are kind, relatable and very thought provoking. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Artist Joe Mangrum has creating temporary artworks with sacks of colored sand since 2006. He’s made short-lived masterpieces all over the world, on streets and inside contemporary museums and galleries. He has completed nearly 1000 paintings, and here are some of his best.

Portrait artist Mary Jane Ansell may dress up her female subjects in the traditional European fashions of men, but they evoke a strong femininity. Her near-hyper realistic oil paintings portray...

Redefining the notion of teamwork, UK-based married couple Irina and Siviu Szekely are an inspiration to everyone that’s ever thought of using their relationship to give something back to the world. The pair have been working together for years, producing hand-made collages and photographs which draw upon their lives together

Figurative artist Malcolm Liepke paints expressive images of men and women with increasing sensuality and range of emotions. The gestural quality of his oil paintings (previously covered here) ...