ArtConnect

Artist to Watch: Josh Aronson @jda.usa Miami-based artist Josh Aronson explores masculinity and landscape through a deeply personal lens — asking what it means to belong. His work returns to one core question:
what does it take to feel at home — in your body, in a place, in a story that wasn’t written for you? An artist to keep an eye on. #artisttowatch #contemporaryphotography #emergingartist #artconnect #visualstorytelling

Artist to Watch: Tianxing Xu @tianxingxu.art Born in Shanghai and now based in New York, Tianxing Xu builds entire worlds from memory — fragmented, overexposed, and never fully resolved. His work takes the form of paintings, prints, installations, and books that act like blueprints for an imagined amusement park. 
A place that feels familiar, but never quite existed. #artisttowatch #contemporaryart #emergingartist #artconnect #painting

Artist to Watch: Jorge Sánchez Di Bello @dibellojorge Colombian artist Jorge Sánchez Di Bello works between installation, object, and glass — exploring how materials carry memory, history, and political context. In his work, materials are never neutral. 
They transform, reflect, and hold meaning — shaped by research, place, and lived experience. #artisttowatch #contemporaryart #installationart #artconnect #materialpractice

@risd1877 Furniture Design graduate student Jisu Han Jung is exploring the idea of “form fakes function” through his piece “Door Room Divider.” What is the action of opening a door if it doesn’t take you to a new space? Is it still a door? See the work of graduating student @junghanjisu along with other students completing master’s degrees across 19 disciplines at RISD Grad Show 2026 on view May 21–30 with a public opening reception on May 20 from 6–8 pm. at the Rhode Island Convention Center.

@hiroakinakaj Sequences/Consequences 43, 2019 #conveyor #performance #sculpture

Charlotte Sapene @charlotte_sapene is a Venezuelan artist working between Mexico and Nicaragua. Her practice explores landscape as a psychological and emotional space shaped by displacement, memory, and intuition. Through painting and sculptural interventions, she creates quiet, contemplative scenes where figures and nature reflect a search for belonging. #art #painting #home

Inspired by the places he moves through, the people he encounters, and the details most people overlook, Jake Williams’ @fotocollagian work captures everyday life from a deeply personal perspective. Streets, hotels, restaurants, sidewalks, signs, shadows, and fleeting moments become fragments of memory shaped through collage. . #Collage #art #photography

@elenbraga__ at Art Düsseldorf . #contemporaryart #artfair #artdüsseldorf #artdüsseldorf2026 #germany @neuer.aachener.kunstverein @artduesseldorf

😂 @themadnessofart Jim explains why Jeff Koons is the most important sculptor in the world. Watch S1E2 The Wedding Gift at @themadnessofart #themadnessofart #comedy #artworld #satire #webseries

@adambasanta 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 2026. Mixed media. 8’ x 5’ x 3’. 300 screaming chicken toys, metal, motor, electromagnetic clutch, lexan, rubber, electronics. “Formal, orderly, and extended[...] use of language in social contexts to share ideas and knowledge[...], a structured exchange of information”. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 ______, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦-𝘤é𝘭è𝘣𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬-𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦. “𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 ______”, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘺, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺’𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘦. 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘳 (𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦), 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸. 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦’𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥, “𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦” 𝘰𝘯 _____, 𝘦𝘯𝘥-𝘰𝘧-𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴. What causes online synchronicity? Does repeated content reflect a spontaneous public coalescing, or is it a symptom of a larger condition? From “social media” to “post-content”: a self-sustaining exhaustive mechanism of neutered expression masquerading as communication patterns. See you at the next crisis. (Ps. I am just one more pathetic chicken in the pile, no better no worse. so Like, comment + share pls thx insert emoji here). Part of COMMON ABSURD, at @oboro4001 until 6.6.26 Fabrication and design: Louis Fortin luigiartisan.com @luigiartisan #art #performance #kineticsculpture #sculpture

Armand Brume in his studio, sewing the climate by hand. . #art #fashion #performance

@tabata.von.der.locht showing a bit of process behind her newest works In her artist practice, Tabata von der Locht expands her working environment from the studio to urban areas. By walking around and observing, she develops an ever-growing collection of traces, imprints and fragments. . #art #graffiti #bricks #urbanart