Skin artwork

I first saw Shirley Faktor’s powerful work in a private collection in California in the late eighties. I was drawn to this artist, and when I met her a few years later, in Jerusalem, she showed me some of her recent pastels. The ones I remember most were huge drawings of faces—none of them showed …

bart hess manipulates pink latex to resemble wrinkled human skin in grotto installation | Netfloor USA

Literate

For some people, maintaining a positive body image can be a lifelong challenge. In a series of complex paintings called Skin, 19-year-old photographer

for 'illustrated people', thomas mailaender manifests an artistic performance in pictures, illustrating the product of his experimental body artworks.

New York-based artist Edie Nadelhaft series ‘Flesh’ of oil paintings was created through exploring the human’s biological surfaces. The hyperrealistic paintings take reference from photographs of the artist’s hands blown out of proportion. Behind these rather disturbing paintings stands a strong message of ‘vitality and vulnerability that characterize the human’s physical existence’, which is slowly […]

Human skin anatomy, computer artwork.

Digital artist Charlie Bowater reveals her top brush choices for emulating the skin's natural texture and imperfections.

3D performance artist and designer Hermione Flynn argues that our skin may become another digital interface that we can simply ‘design’

in the approaching realm of designer babies, embryo screening, and the ability to choose the traits of ourselves and children; why are we still wearing garments that haven't progressed in dozens if not hundreds of years?