Craft & Mixed Media
Not all art fits neatly into painting, sculpture, or photography, and this section is home to the mediums that sit outside those categories. Craft and mixed media work often blurs the line between fine art and traditional handwork, bringing together techniques like calligraphy, ceramics, embroidery, paper art, and collage under one roof. These pieces can combine several materials in a single work, or lean fully into one specific hands on craft. What they share is a strong focus on process and material, since the making itself is often as important as the finished piece. Explore this section for art that plays by its own rules.
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Cayce Zavaglia | Craft & Mixed Media
Cayce Zavaglia is an American artist, born in 1971 and raised in Australia, who trained as a painter before turning to embroidery 16 years ago to create hand-sewn portraits of friends, family and fellow artists. From a distance her thread portraits read as hyper-realistic paintings, but up close they reveal their true construction in cotton,…
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Essentialism Art | Craft & Mixed Media
Essentialism in painting strips an image down to its purest form, removing everything unnecessary to reach the core truth of an idea, a philosophy art historian Mark Cheetham traces back to early abstractionists like Mondrian and Kandinsky. Key figures include Frank Badur, known for structured color fields, and Robert Moskowitz, who reduces everyday objects to…
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Arabic Calligraphy by Iraqi Artist Jassim Mohammed | Craft & Mixed Media
Jassim Mohammed is an Iraqi calligraphy artist and a member of the Iraqi Artists Syndicate, the Iraqi Fine Artists Association, and the Iraqi Calligraphers Association. His paintings set Arabic letters loose from their traditional forms, letting them float in bright, colorful compositions that galleries have described as organized chaos. He won first prize in Arabic…
