BIZARRE MAGAZINE NO. 146 FEBRUARY 2009

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While, upon closer inspection, this may seem like a legit magazine about people who like to hold a lot of meetings, its abbreviated title – OMFG – is enough for it to belong on this list. Imagine all the people who bought an issue, and only realised once they got home that it’s not about millennials texting each other with gossip about who hooked up with whom. Top Tenz USD cash, generously donated by sponsor iCanvas, printers of high quality canvas art prints, priced for every lover of art.

We also take a keep dive into Alessandra Maria’s work, where the figures depicted are portrayed with very soft features. Paying homage to Renaissance drawings, Alessandra uses her chosen medium’s advantage, shading lightly enough for facial features to emerge but not dark enough to fall into the shadowy depths of the charcoal’s true nature. Winning artwork printed in the December 2023 issue of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, as part of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize editorial. There still is a tension between the two versions of my own art and storytelling – the lighter and the darker versions. Katie Gamb Unfortunately with a large proportion of the printed magazine market suffering a decline with lower sales in an increasingly digital age, Dennis Publishing has made the difficult decision to close the publication." Receive exposure to a successful commercial gallery’s collector base with the opportunity to sell their workUSD cash, generously donated by Yasha Young Projects,arts philanthropist and Executive Curatorial Director for the FOR_M, a new institution currently being developed in New York city USD cash, generously donated by the Founders of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Danijela Krha Purssey and Richard Purssey. Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is a leading publication for contemporary art lovers, featuring in-depth interviews and profiles of leading and emerging visual and wearable artists from around the world. Each issue offers informative, inspiring, and thought-provoking content, perfect for artists, artisan fashion designers, collectors, curators, galleries, and anyone looking to stay up-to-date on the latest trends in the contemporary art world. To be classified as an ‘Emerging Artist’ for the purpose of this Award, you must be in the early stages of pursuing a career as a professional artist [within the first 5 years], and have not won any Awards or Prizes previously. You must not be currently represented by a commercial gallery, nor had any solo exhibitions at a commercial gallery. If you don’t fit within this criteria, please enter one of the other Award categories. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize Winners in each Award category, and the Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize have been invited to participate in this year’s Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition ‘ Halcyon Days‘, at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco later this year. We look forward to presenting their work as part of this prestigious annual exhibition! These works will be shared in the coming weeks leading up to the opening.

Austin Allen: Radiance. Traditional painting, Liquid Watercolour and Ink. Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize In this Issue’s Artist + Artist editorial artist couple Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo share an intimate conversation about life, their shared history in bodybuilding, and a sense of playfulness and humour that is integral to this duo’s practices. The couple, both partnered in marriage and sometimes within their painting, are as much in demand as ever. An aesthetic set in stone in previous generations of fantasy, it is like visual popping candy for the brain to see modern actors portrayed amidst the dramatic environments. Look closer, and you will see the subtleties of modern culture embedded. This wonderful mix of nostalgia and contemporary references is refreshing, playful – and most importantly, shows there is very much still a place for fantasy painting in the modern age. Julie Bell Boris Vallejo Given that so many publications today have become overly politicised and preachy, as well as living on borrowed time in the wake of internet media, you’d be forgiven for thinking that nobody in their right mind buys magazines anymore. Despite this slow death, some super niche mags are still doing it the old fashioned way—providing the reader with stuff they want to read about… if you really like potatoes or corpses, that is.Halcyon Days’ opens on 5 November and the Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine will be in attendance. We hope to see many of you at the special opening reception! Founder, publisher and self-styled ‘Deaditor-in-chief’ Robert Steven Rhine has explained what inspired him to create this delightful magazine:

Exhibit in the prestigious annual Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition alongside 80+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists at Modern Eden Gallery, in San Francisco, CA USA If you are an art doll creator, or know one that you feel should be included in our next list, please comment below. I am always in search of exciting new creatives! At first I was painting wildlife more in their natural settings. But over time, I found it much more interesting to imagine the animals in absurd situations; creating stories in the paintings was more fun for me. Lucia Heffernan Anna Karvounari Solmaz Tohidloo

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Winning artwork also published in the Bizarre Art Prize editorial in the December 2023 of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. If you had to choose only three words that you feel best describes your work, what would they be, and why?