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Performance view of “Donna Huanca: Surrogate Painteen,” 2016. Photo courtesy of Peres Projects, Berlin. Amid the cosmopolitan chaos of London this fall, the New York artist Donna Huanca is creating space for meditative contemplation. As Frieze Week sets in, the Zabludowicz Collection in London will be taken over by […] Read more The Beauty of […]

Believe it or not, these astoundingly realistic portraits of animals are highly detailed body paintings that double as optical illusions. Hailing from Tyrol, Italy, artist Johannes Stötter began working in this fleshy medium in 2009, and has since taken the body painting world by storm. His work draws inspiration […] Read more Trippy animal paintings […]

“Kissing Myself” via @designdain Optical illusions were one of my favorite grade school diversions (remember those Magic Eye posters from the ‘90s?), so “illusion artist” Dain Yoon ’s Instagram account has me mesmerized. The South Korean selfie magician fills her feed with surreal face and body painting images that look like Pablo Picasso […] Read […]

Australian artist Emma Hack paints on a model’s body until it perfectly aligns with the intricate, colorful patterns of the wallpaper behind the model. In other work, she perfectly adjusts the contours of her models to match the detailed patterns of flowers and animals. Ms. Hack is the queen of camouflage body painting […] Read […]

If you have a steady hand and an Instagram , there’s no reason not to let your budding inner artist out — no matter what your day job is. Take, for example, a hairstylist named Dre. She’s been using platforms like Reddit and Instagram to show off her awesome body painting work[…] Read more Makeup […]

Universal Gravitation Katherine Airs ’ canvas is 5-foot-10 and weighs 145 pounds. She’s a painter who uses one particular human being as her body-painting canvas. A guy named Michael. She transforms his fair skin with acrylic paints and photographs him in his birthday suit. On Saturday, August 11, her […] Read more The Man, The […]