Tag: experimental art
Daiana Bruj creates layered abstract paintings using fabric, collage, and upcycled materials that carry traces of lived experience. Often incorporating personal elements like worn textiles, her work builds surfaces that feel both intimate and deeply human. Colour leads her process, forming an emotional field before shapes and structure emerge, while each material adds its own history to the composition. Rather than depicting faces directly, her paintings explore presence through absence, capturing the warmth, memory, and quiet imprint people leave behind. Over time, her practice has shifted toward restraint, using fewer elements…
Faye Johansen’s practice begins with attention to nature, to material, and to the quiet traces things leave behind. Working across watercolour, collage, and handmade journals, she builds surfaces that carry both process and place. At the centre of her work is a powerful series of one hundred charcoal portraits of Indigenous children, drawn onto discarded books layered with torn maps, music notation, and fragments of text. Each material holds meaning, speaking to displacement, memory, and loss, while charcoal allows the faces to remain both present and fragile. Alongside this, her journals…
Ligia Fascioni creates layered portraits that merge photorealism with hand-drawn floral and figurative elements over real urban textures. Using photographs of the Berlin Wall and torn street posters, she builds faces on surfaces rich with history and meaning. Each piece reflects the idea that identity is formed through layers—cultural, emotional, and historical. With a background in engineering and design, her work is both structured and deeply expressive. Her compositions transform decay into beauty, turning overlooked materials into powerful foundations. The result is art that invites viewers to look closer and uncover…
Nicole Garcia blends gothic and whimsy into bold, imaginative portraits and mixed media works. Her art celebrates strangeness, play, and fearless self-expression