Gabriel Shuldiner, Butterflies, Sunshine and Unicorns, Black Painting, US, 2015

With his series of intense black mixed media paintings, artist Gabriel Shuldiner captures the void simultaneously created by and filled up b...

By employing ever-more complex techniques, wedding rare species of wood and precious metals in novel arrangements, and endowing each piece with incredible components, Jean-Luc Le Mounier creates work, astonishing and seductive in equal measure, that pushes the frontier of his craft into the realm of art. This exciting exploration is perhaps best-evidenced by Papillon pieces, Le Mounier’s series of inimitable cabinets, all rendered by his expert hand, and featuring doors carved into the shape of a butterfly’s wings. This particular iteration features wings covered in black straw marquetry, a delicate inner gate wrought of antiqued bronze, and a sumptuous interior of lemon ceylon wood.

This is a new work by Mattia Biagi.  

While Douglas D. Craft's (American, 1924-2015) Dragonfly series is textured in appearance, it is merely a painterly illusion. 'Dragonfly #8' is a rhythmic series of vertical black st...