This year’s installation in the promenade features a surreal group of rectangular glass blocks with what appear to be colorful, life-size dancers trapped inside — part of a series that the featured artist, Dustin Yellin, calls “Psychogeographies.” Closer inspection reveals that each block is made up of more than two dozen thin panels of glass, with the layers decorated with paint or drawings or collages and then glued together. Viewed from the front or back, they form striking three-dimensional figures; from the side, the images seem to disappear. Read the full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/arts/dance/new-york-city-ballet-applies-a-surreal-touch-to-build-audiences.html?searchResultPosition=2

At once playful and plaintive, the ascendant painter’s cartoonish rendition of a tennis match gone awry captures a scenic snapshot of sun-soaked surrealism. Here, we ask an artist to frame the essential details behind one of their latest works. An interesting feature that’s not immediately noticeable: Maybe the lack of tennis being played—no tennis ball in sight. I like the idea of them getting all dressed up to smoke a Marlboro Gold in a semi-surreal, pale green tennis court landscape. I stay in a realm of cartoon-ized imagery that exists in between reality and fantasy—kind of the strangeness of a manufactured

Hajime Sorayama, the father of the sexy robot revolution. Though he began his work on sexy robots in 1983, it has only grown more relevant in our increasingly technological society. Internationally recognized as the primary innovator of realistic expressionism via his airbrush technique, Sorayama continues to inspire artists of all mediums: painters, sculptors, film directors, and fashion designers.   Read the full article at https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/article/hajime-sorayama-machines-with-sex-appeal

On March 23, 2023, Allouche Gallery will unveil The Alchemy and the Ecstasy, which showcases Hannah Yata‘s most extensive collection of artwork. The Alchemy and the Ecstasy is an exhibition that brings to life the artist’s kaleidoscope of color and emotion, with each work encapsulating a transitional zone between fear and wonder. Her art fuses human rituals and growth with the natural world and other living beings, using alchemical symbols to portray the transformation of the soul as it passes through the light and darkness of existence. Through her use of myths and ancient symbols, Yata brings us back to