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Batman, Robin, and Wonder Woman all find themselves in sticky situations in Tina Lugo's paintings, which blend her hallucinatory sensibility with a sexy sense of humor. More »
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Is there anything more wondrous than art showing interstellar phenomena and dolphins — together? It's like a whole universe of awesome, all in one place. Brandon McConnell's spray-painted art is full of pyramids, galaxies, sunsets, true love and dirt bikes. More »
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Just because you're getting older and the spandex doesn't quite fit like it used to doesn't mean you hang up the tights and stop fighting crime. Andreas Englund's oil paintings capture moments from a hero who's showing his age. More »
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To some, Comic-Con is a sweaty heap of pulsating fans. To us, it's a galleria of delights and treasures waiting to be uncovered. But the goodies are hard to find. So we're taking the guesswork out of navigating the Con floor. More »
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There's far more to monsters than kidnapping women and getting revenge on their creators. In the painting series "Tiny Confessions," these creatures lay their souls bare and confess the pain they don't want you to see behind their anger. More »
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Epic fantasy and epic space opera collide in Benjamin Collison's digital Star Wars/Lord of the Rings mashup paintings. That Eye of Sauron Death Star is going to haunt my dreams. More »
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Gallery 1988's latest pop culture-themed art show takes us back to the 1980s, with artistic explorations of Beetlejuice, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and Back to the Future. It's called, appropriate, the "3B" show. More »
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You know those dreary landscape paintings that haunt every yard sale and adorn too many a gallery wall? Artist Chris McMahon adds his own touches to such paintings — and proves that giant monsters can improve just about anything. More »
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In Roland Tamayo's paintings, sea creatures find themselves punked out with modern-day technologies, transforming them into the vehicles and weapons of the future. Take a leisurely cruise aboard a humpback sailboat, or face nature's deadliest weapon: the shark jet. More »
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We're enraptured by Robert Burden's tapestry-esque, 10-foot tall painting of Luke and his Tauntaun from Star Wars. And we're even more impressed of the time-lapse video he created showing how this painting was created. Check out this artist's work. More »
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Audrey Kawasaki paints part-manga, part-Art Nouveau scenes of women in supernatural settings. Kawasaki places her subjects in a "sensually esoteric realm," where sea creatures, skeletons, and beasts from Japanese mythology roam. It's some sexy-odd phantasmagoria. [Audrey Kawasaki via The Scuttlefish] More »
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When not trolling the galaxy for his latest bounty, Boba Fett likes to kick back in this casual hoodie/jacket combo. He's joined on the high-fashion runway by his dear old dad, Stormtroopers, and even Jar Jar Binks. More »
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You're traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of painting and sculpture but of mind-bending imagery. Gallery 1988 is readying its latest geek-themed art show, and this promises to take us into The Twilight Zone. More »
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Boobs! Dragons! Dragons and boobs! Men in thongs! Women in thongs! Swords! Snakes! Barbarians! Cakes! Perms! Rassling! Thighs! Butts! It's Boris Vallejo time! You've been warned! More »
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In the 1980s, painted movie ads were the norm in Thailand. These exquisitely creepy collages didn't just divulge important plot points to audiences... they were scarier than the movies themselves. More »
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Scott Eagle has demons. Many demons. They come to haunt him in all sorts of guises - sometimes as tornadoes, sometimes as bleeding trees. Nature is not benign. The best way to deal with them is to paint them. More »
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Superheroes are often depicted with exaggerated features, but the artists known as WonderBros take it a step further. Their paintings grossly distort the facial features of familiar superheroes and villains, inspired by the facial distortions found in Pablo Picasso's art. More »
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Epic Mickey's stylized concept art is a mecha-filled vision of the Disney apocalypse, but Alexis Rockman's paintings take a more natural view of a post-human Disney World — and imagines other cities and monuments long after we're gone. More »
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Luke Chueh is best known for his bizarre and often bloody paintings of otherwise adorable bears and bunny rabbits. In his latest series, he reinterprets Dante's Inferno, casting his cute critters as the eternally damned. More »
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In the days when mobile cinemas first came to Ghana, local artists were commissioned to paint posters promoting the films, posters that often exaggerated the content of the films and took on an artistic life of their own. More »
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Vesna Jovanovic's illustrations are inspired by the natural world and the tools science uses to explore it, creating often surreal images of human innards, often combined with twisting lab equipment and machinery. More »
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Steampunk artist Myke Amend's paintings of airships are almost deceptively serene, with ornate ships sailing through icy skies. But tentacles and sea monsters lurk in the background, hinting at high adventure and grave dangers. More »
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Pixar's artists definitely have a racy side, even if it doesn't always come out in their G-rated fare. But with The Ancient Book of Sex and Science, the studio's artists let loose with saucy images of science and science fiction. More »
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In Polish artist Jacek Yerka’s surreal paintings, technology coexists with fantasy, buildings defy logic and gravity, and no boundaries exist between the biological and the mechanical. Although beautiful on their own, they suggest the settings for outlandish tales of foreign worlds, a quality that inspired science fiction writer Harlan Ellison to write an anthology of short fiction based on Yerka’s work. More »
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Fred Einaudi's portraits take the iconic visual language of their subjects – the can-do attitude of women in wartime propaganda posters, the innocence and curiosity displayed in paintings of children, the elegance and drama of Victorian and Edwardian era portraiture – and juxtaposes it with unexpected images of death and destruction. The results are some of the most haunting visions of humans and animals going on with their lives in a devastated world. More »
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In 2003, artist Sunny Buick conceived and curated SCI-FI Western, an exhibition of art inspired by both science fiction and the American frontier. Taking the analogy of space as the new Old West to the next level, the participating artists juxtaposed B-movie imagery from westerns and science fiction with bizarre and surprisingly poignant results. More »
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Superman and Batman sit on the toilet, looking sort of depressed. Why are they so bummed out? It's hard to tell, since I can't read the speech balloons, but maybe they've realized there are some situations that giant muscles just won't solve. It's a typical image for Indonesian artist I. Nyoman Masriadi, who often depicts muscle-bound men and women looking either monstrous or ridiculous. His paintings have been known to fetch up to $360,000 each, and he's won awards, maybe because he's put his finger on a muscle-attenuated nerve? [Bloomberg] More »
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