I met up with Kevin Cyr (HF Vol. 10) to get some pre-show flicks before the opening of Temporal Surfaces, the 2-person show with Jessica Hess I curated for White Walls Gallery. It was such a treat to...
(photo by Scott Beale) San Francisco's 1:AM Gallery opened a most unique show in support of the rehabilitation of their neighbor, the fantastic site-specific "Defenestration," a huge multi-storied bu...
Ecoli, the HIV virus, and Small pox all get the glass blown heirloom treatment from Luke Jerram. Jerram creates an unbiased and dare we say beautiful look at these microbiotic killers by stripping th...
Los Angeles' Rob Sato opened his small but very impressive show "Junk History" at Giant Robot's San Francisco location last Saturday, February 13th. Sato premiered two large watercolor works, that, w...
Andrew Brandou's hypnotizing line heavy paintings have an unexpected ethereal glow. You can find him in Hi-Fructose Vol.14 now on stands and don't miss his duo show with the eye-catching work of Mart...
Damon Soule's most recent body of work for "Modus Alone" continues his exploration of geometry, color and space. What makes this work different from previous showings however, is its focus on the met...
Camille Rose Garcia sent Hi-Fructose some exclusive behind the scenes looks at the creation of her newest illustration work, nothing less that Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland". Garcia stays true...
The Pasadena Museum of California offers an interesting and overlooked perspective on one of the local icons of the city – The LA River. Though not often though of as a prominent subject for museum q...
Last week the Gagosian Gallery on New York's famed Madison Avenue opened Damien Hirst's "End of an Era" show. I am not sure if the title is a direct representation of Damien Hirst taking a new direct...
It's always great to watch an artist like Mark Licari work. Watch The Making of Mark Licari's Site-Specific Mural La Mirada: Flows to Bay at the Monterey Museum of Art-La Mirada.
New York's Last Rites Gallery is an epicenter of dark painting, turning the screws on puritanical taboos. With impressive art shows, the current solo shows by Nick Baxter and Fred Harper, for example...
Canadian artist Kristi Malakoff's paper sculptures and installations inhabit the space they are in... in fact you could say they swarm the environment entirely. These sculptures are made from a numbe...
Photos from Saturday evening at The Shooting Gallery to another packed house, where the 6 person Dutch collaborative Antistrot was on display. Next door White Walls hosted the group show "Never A Dul...
The ambiguous nature of Kate Eric's collaborative creations makes it all the more intriguing. What it is might be a creature but at what stage of development it's in would then be the question. Micro...
Artist Daniel Danger and band mate Justin Myer, recently collaborated to design their own tour poster for their musical ensemble A City Safe From Sea.
This year, Hi-Fructose will be taking a look at a few of the influential art galleries that showcase and support the art which we cover in the pages of our magazine. Our first foray leads us to New Y...
The Merry Karnowski Gallery brings LA a one/two punch with two outstanding artists with solo shows this Saturday. Victor Castillo's (featured in HF vol.8) hot dog-nosed blank-faced children amidst br...
(Type treatment by Brett Stenson) - Brett Stenson, type designer extraordinaire has done logos and type treatments for us for the last couple of issues. One of our favorite pieces he did was the titl...
Yasmin Bilbeisi travels to London's National Gallery to give Hi-Fructose readers a report on the provocative Kienholz: Hoerengracht red light district exhibit.
Tony Colletti & Nick Kushner bring us an exclusive look at New York City's Vincent Castiglia's recent showing at Switzerland's Museum of Porn in Art. Delve into Castiglia's intense imagery, which is ...
Indiana native and Florida resident artist Nathan Skiles delves deep into his interest in kitsch imagery to produce a curious new body of work. This new investigation, a series of cuckoo clocks made ...
We have a quick chat with Canadian artist Gary Taxali (featured in HF vol.4) about his upcoming solo exhibit of over 300 original works highlighting an already prolific career, many of which appeared...
Kevin Cyr (first profiled in Hi-Fructose vol.10) presents a video of his new work in progress project, the Camper Kart. One of the things Kevin Cyr is best known for his are his "portraits" of dereli...
Mark Jenkins (HF vol.5) and Aakash Nihalani, are booby trap setters, ambushing the boring drab visual landscape. They can make a simple walk through a city's downtown an eye opening and memorable exp...
Sas and Colin Christian are flying out from Florida to London's Opera Gallery to present "Inner Space" an very impressive new body of work. Showcasing Sas Christian's brilliantly rendered oil paintin...
Our love affair with Josh Keye's work began with Hi-Fructose Vol.5 (way back in 2007) and six months ago, his powerful deer image graced the cover of HF Vol.12. His latest solo show "Fragment" is now...
San Francisco Museum of Art rolled out the party last night for their 75th Anniversary Celebration, a three-day weekend of free admission and special programs January 16 through 18. Featured are a se...
We first covered Cleveland artist Amy Casey way back in HF vol.5 and since she's created a most impressive body of work. Her teetering roller-coaster like city-scapes appear in her latest solo show t...
We're pleased to announce the release of an exclusive giclee print by artist Alex Pardee! "Digested Rainbow" was the centerpiece to Pardee's solo show "Letters from Digested Children." Limited to jus...
The David B. Smith Gallery opens a most impressive Group Exhibition to kick start 2010. It features Gregory Euclide (HF Vol.14), Ricky Allman, Emil Alzamo, Lori Field, Kristen Schile, Mike Stilkey an...
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