Imperfection art

This drawing by Canadian artist Cathy Daley is full of vigor and energy and expresses exactly how I feel on most days, but especially today, as I have run away to London again to do lots of exciting things. Including becoming a piece of art for the Motley Collective and seeing degree shows and friends. I hope you have a good weekend, I am really looking forward to mine.

Cesar Biojo can paint with a pristine, realist perfection, but he refuses to make his paintings that simple. His canvases are marked by physical, aggressive marks. One can imagine Biojo shading the faces and limbs of his subjects with delicate brushstrokes and then going back to destroy his work, smearing the beige-colored paint to turn the portrait into something more. His paintings often focus on single subjects stripped from their context — there is no clothing or interior decor to…

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Korean artist Yeesookyung masterfully produces imperfect sculptures, bulbous yet elegant works composed from mismatched porcelain. The series, titled “Translated Vase,” was first inspired by the Korean artisan tradition of destroying porcelain works that are not deemed pristine, and she has continued to make the fused pieces since 2001. Intrigued by these tossed aside works and shards, Yee began saving fragmented tea cups and pots rejected by contemporary masters. Honoring the works’…

Grief makes us feel crushed and broken beyond repair. The Japanese art of Kintsugi shows that God can make us broken but beautiful.

Lucas Simoes was born in 1980 in Brazil. An independent artist, he studied architecture and design in Brazil and Italy. Many of Lucas’ pieces are heavily layered as he cuts away at different …

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Self-taught Nigerian artist Arinze Stanley (previously) is a wizard when it comes to putting charcoal and graphite to paper. The artist creates hyperrealistic portraits at a scale just larger than life, spending hundreds of hours detailing his subjects’ skin, hair, and sweat so that the works are nearly indistinguishable from black and white photographs. The artist recently opened a solo exhibition of new drawings at Jonathan LeVine Projects in New Jersey titled Mirrors, which seeks to pull…

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Wabi-sabi embraces imperfection and appreciates asymmetry, irregularity, simplicity and the organic nature of natural objects . Luna’s new “Wabi-Sabi” guitars are constructed with B grade tops....usually rejected for being aesthetically imperfect but sounding the same as A grade tops. This is a brilliant combination as each guitar is different and we are able to offer…

Kintsugi nails are trending again, so we asked a professional nail artist how we can get the look.