INO’s  latest mural at the 4th edition of Festival Concreto – in Fortaleza City, Brazil

Michael Beerens, street artist Paris, France michaelbeerens.fr

Lianne Nixon , an illustrator based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Website  /  Instagram

“GIANTS” Solo Show in London’s Lazinc Gallery from January 12th until February 28th, 2018 – 29 Sackville Street

“Zaluuokhin” by Fin DAC in Adelaide, Australia

Kathy Ager is a Canadian-born artist based in Amsterdam. It’s what flows beneath the surface that interests her. In Ager’s current body of work, she braves the mind’s basement, ventures into the heart’s deep dark woods, plundering pieces of people and things she encounters. The images that emerge are physical records from these intimate depths. Both deeply personal and universal, they are cryptic messages directed towards the audience. She challenges the viewer to face the discomfort and to see the beauty and power in letting yourself feel. She describes subjects such as dead animals, which frequently appear in her paintings, as the intimate and tender offerings of our nature which are subjected to the subtle brutality of consumable, disposable modern life and love. Sometimes strikingly eery or underlyingly violent, her works are crafted in a way that is original and appealing to the eye, and in a way become her weapons against the pain of letting oneself be vulnerable. Kathy Ager’s Website

Mateusz Lengling – from Bydgoszcz, Poland Instagram

Semeniuta aka Local Preacher Based in Sochi, Russia Artist / Photographer / Graphic designer / SUPERSATURATION / HYPER UNIVERSE Don’t forget to check out Slava Semeniuta’s  Behance portfolio  and follow him on   Instagram  to see more of his visual art.

NOIR Artist (Lucien Gilson) is a young visual artist and muralist painter from Belgium (Liege) who studied in Saint-Luc Liege. At 28, NOIR Artist creates paintings and murals on almost all supports, but always in black shades (“NOIR” means “BLACK” in French). Paintings, drawings, monumental frescoes, wall art, trompe l’oeil, decoration and urban design: his “shady” work always leaves an impression. Inspired by the advertising, baroque art, tattooing and Pop Art, NOIR Artist gracefully revisits his personal painting obsessions and his very personal vision of our consumer society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ0LG74lFWI By meeting NOIR Artist, you’ll soon realize the keen interest of Lucien Gilson in both yesterday and today’s art. The young painter, however, does not seek to recreate what has already been done. Instead, his pleasure is to push the limits of pictorial creation even further by re-appropriating the iconography that fascinates him. His pseudonym “NOIR” was inspired by the fact that he does not use any other pigment than black, not even grey or white. Only –but more than fifty- nuances of black, whether in acrylic paint, charcoal, black stone pencil or aerosol. As a painter and muralist, NOIR Artist sees light as a raw material born from the very heart of his black, from the bristles of his brushes. Especially influenced by the “fatal romanticism” of Robert Longo, icon of Pop Art, famous for his monumental hyperrealistic works, the work of NOIR Artist seduces at first by its technical quality and its excellence in the art of illusion. His works make it seem as if the complex mechanism of a camera had been simply replaced by a mere human hand. And yet… Let’s have a closer look. The NOIR Artist paintings and frescoes are dotted with infinitesimal details, making them infinitely fascinating. His way of appropriating the space allotted to him, regardless of its size, allows his works to avoid being repetitive and multiplies the points of view and interpretations. In a 2.0 Warhol spirit, NOIR Artist seeks the image that will challenge his look in magazines, advertisements, superhero movies, comics, web, people in the news, but also in Baroque painting or Christian iconography. Each raw image is then cropped, triturated, diverted to integrate mixed-up visuals with high narrative contents. Between baroque imagery and various symbols of our consuming society, his visual association are like mirror reflections of our time. NOIR Artist’s paintings subtly tease all that targets our desires. CONTACT@NOIR-ARTIST.COM (Belgium / Liège) noir-artist.com

Katharina Grosse Born 1961 in Freiburg / Breisgau / lives and works in Berlin / 2000-2010 Professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee / 2010-2018 Professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf. The installation is called “ The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Metres, Then it Stopped ”  and was created for Sydney Festival 2018 ,  available to see until April 8, 2018. Instagram  / Website

Erik Jones Brooklyn-based artist Available at Jonathan LeVine Projects in Jersey City January 6 – February 3. Website   /   Instagram

Opening Reception Saturday, February 24 from 7-11pm (On View February 24 Through March 31, 2018) On  Saturday, February 24 , downtown Los Angeles’  Corey Helford Gallery (CHG)  will proudly present the latest exhibition from leading German graffiti artists and storytellers  HERAKUT  —  HERA (Jasmin Siddiqui)  and  AKUT (Falk Lehmann) . Titled “Herakut’s RENTAL ASYLUM , ”  the exhibition of all new works will inhabit  CHG ‘s 4,500 square-foot main gallery, with the artists in attendance. Regarding their newest creations,  HERAKUT  states: “The show is called ‘Rental Asylum’ — as we all need to rent a place somewhere far from today’s actual reality, don’t we? And all our creatures on canvas are the happy patients of our rental asylum. They all have different reasons for checking in with us, for a bit, before facing the shit show our world has become.” After joining forces in 2004, the artists merged their names and styles to collaborate as HERAKUT. Since then, the duo have been painting murals all over the world, along with additional works on canvas, paper and film for gallery and museum shows. Beyond international exhibitions around the world (France, Gaza, Germany and Jordan, among many others), live festival showings at Glastonbury (U.K.), Coachella (U.S.) and an appearance at the Happy 80th Birthday, Dalai Lama celebration (U.S.), this marks HERAKUT’s second exhibition at the gallery. HERAKUT  consider themselves “storytellers” who want to share their thoughts and questions with the public, so their figurative work is always accompanied with text. Their process of painting is also a dialogue with both artists adding their individual techniques to the piece.  Jasmin  uses her drawing skills on finding the form and proportion of their characters, while  Falk  specializes on painting the photorealistic elements. In addition,  HERAKUT  are also involved with a variety of charity organizations — where the two work with children in schools and youth programs teaching young people to create a world for themselves — inside their minds. A collection of their work can be found in their books  HERAKUT – the perfect merge  and  After The Laughter . In addition to  HERAKUT ’s exhibition,  Corey Helford Gallery  will be premiering new shows from  Adrian Cox  in  Gallery 2  and  Troy Brooks  in  Gallery 3 . Opening reception for all three shows will be hosted  Saturday, February 24 from  7-11pm . The reception is open to the public and all shows are on view through  March 31 . COREY HELFORD GALLERY 571 S. Anderson St . (Enter on Willow St) Los Angeles, CA 90033 Tel.  310.287.2340 Open Tuesday–Saturday, 12 Noon to 6pm