EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW // The Beautifully Brutal World of Michelle Avery Konczyk

Michelle Avery Konczyk, also known online under her artist name Velvet Mush @velvetmush, is a watercolour artist recognised for her dark surrealism paintings that explore themes of beauty, femininity and the macabre. Michelle Avery Konczyk is currently represented by Bender Gallery @bendergallery.

Read the exclusive interview by Samantha Dexter @anerdyperspective
> https://beautifulbizarre.net/michelle-avery-konczyk-art-interview/ [link in bio] ...

QUICK GET YOUR ENTRIES IN Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize closes next month 🤩 $10,000 USD CASH goes to this year`s Grand Prize Winner

If you would like to exhibit with 100+ of the best contemporary artists at @moderneden in San Francisco USA later this year, win life changing cash prizes + have your work published in the December issue of Beautiful Bizarre art magazine - enter today!

Entries are open in the following Award categories:

✨ @raymarpanels Painting Award
✨ 33PA @poetsartists Drawing Award
✨ Sculpture Award
✨ @mpbcom Photography Award
✨ @inprnt Digital Art Award
✨ @bearwolfbooks Emerging Artist Award
✨ @catherine.k.gyllerstrom Imaginative Realism Award

For more information about each Award category, prizes, and to enter, visit https://beautifulbizarreartprize.art/ [link in bio]

2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is proudly sponsored by ~
PLATINUM SPONSORS: @raymarpanels, @bearwolfbooks, @catherine.k.gyllerstrom, @beautifulbizarremagazine, @poetsartists, @mpbcom, @inprnt
GOLD SPONSORS: @moderneden, @art_escape_italy, @rosemarybrushes
SILVER SPONSORS: @poetictigergallery, @staticmedium, @artandfablepuzzles, @nannygoatgallery, @blackdragonpress, @huiontablet, @coreyhelfordgallery, @bayphotolab
BRONZE SPONSORS: @sculpey_official, @stanwinstonschool, @spectrumlab, @naia_museum, @escapemotions, @thinktankphoto @gelaskins
MEDIA PARTNERS: @supersonicart, @myartisreal @artdataintel, @darkartsociety, @allaboutphotocom
ACADEMIC PARTNERS: @rmit_art
@barcelona.academyofart @academy_of_fine_art

Entry by: @symprez - @raymarpanels Painting Award ...

EXHIBITION PREVIEW // Modern Eden Gallery Presents `The Portrait Show 14: Masquerade`

Modern Eden Gallery @moderneden invites you to `The Portrait Show 14: Masquerade`, where every mask becomes a mirror, lost in the layers of what is concealed and revealed.

See the show in a preview by Bella Harris @bellaharrisart
> https://beautifulbizarre.net/modern-eden-gallery-masquerade/ [link in bio]

Opening Reception: June 4, 2026 | 6-9 PM
Exhibition Dates: June 4, 2026-July 26, 2026

Modern Eden Gallery
1100 Sutter Street | San Francisco, CA 94109

For press inquiries or sales, please contact Modern Eden Gallery Director Kim Larson at kim@moderneden.com

General Information, please email info@moderneden.com

Phone: (415) 956-3303
Wednesday–Saturday, 12–5 pm

Private artwork viewing appointments are available

Artwork shown by Leilani Bustamante @lbustamante ...

An uneasy feeling washes over me as I gaze upon Emily Reed’s ‘Invasive Species’. This painting plays with feelings of innocence, belonging, and isolation whilst offering a fresh take on the wolf in sheep’s clothing idiom.

Artwork details: ‘Invasive Species’, 2024, mixed media on canvas, 30 x 24 in

Discover more of Emily’s work at @rjdgallery: https://rjdgallery.com/artist/emily-reed/

RJD Gallery, 227 North Main Street, Romeo, MI 48065

For more information on RJD Gallery including including exhibition info, artist representation and artworks currently for sale please visit: https://rjdgallery.com ...

You could easily lose yourself in this surreal dreamscape. Save the date for ‘Lost Landing’, a solo exhibition by Alexis Mata @alexismataaaa 🇲🇽 opening this Saturday at Thinkspace Projects @thinkspace_art.

“The exhibition ultimately proposes a space where forms seem to mutate, drift, and slowly colonize their surroundings. Each piece functions as the trace of an unknown landscape, a fragment of an expanding world where ideas disperse, float, and find new ways to grow.” - Alexis Mata

“Lost Landing”
Oil on canvas
160 x 160 cm
63 x 63 inches
2026

Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 6 from 6-10PM

On view:
June 6 - June 27

Thinkspace Projects
4217 W. Jefferson Blvd.
LA 90016 ...

ART PRIZE BLOG // Win $10,000 USD Cash in the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize!

The 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is open for entries, and this is your chance to win the Grand Prize of $10,000 USD cash (plus amazing prizes) and have our Editor-in-Chief Danijela Krha Purssey – who curates each issue of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine – see your work! Enter now for the opportunity to be published not only in Beautiful Bizarre art magazine, but also across our social media and websites while entries are open.

To inspire you to submit your own work, we share EVEN MORE entries that we’ve received so far across all seven award categories. See them at https://beautifulbizarreartprize.art/win-2026-beautiful-bizarre-art-prize [link in bio]

2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is proudly sponsored by ~
PLATINUM SPONSORS: @raymarpanels, @bearwolfbooks, @catherine.k.gyllerstrom, @beautifulbizarremagazine, @poetsartists, @mpbcom, @inprnt
GOLD SPONSORS: @moderneden, @art_escape_italy, @rosemarybrushes
SILVER SPONSORS: @poetictigergallery, @staticmedium, @artandfablepuzzles, @nannygoatgallery, @blackdragonpress, @huiontablet, @coreyhelfordgallery, @bayphotolab
BRONZE SPONSORS: @sculpey_official, @stanwinstonschool, @spectrumlab, @naia_museum, @escapemotions, @thinktankphoto @gelaskins
MEDIA PARTNERS: @supersonicart, @myartisreal @artdataintel, @darkartsociety, @allaboutphotocom
ACADEMIC PARTNERS: @rmit_art
@barcelona.academyofart @academy_of_fine_art

Entry by: Aleksandra Yarushyna @art.rouniss - @bearwolfbooks Emerging Artist Award ...

“NUEVA PRIMAVERA“, 2024 by Nicole Sánchez Ilzenhöfer @nicolesanchezi

"If, as a child, I hadn’t known the sea, a river, a tree, flowers, or a horse, I’m sure I wouldn’t have become an artist. I learned everything there. Those are the moments that shaped me and still accompany me, places I can always return to, and that will remain eternal within me with the same magic, innocence, and wonder. I am made of childhood."

Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 in.
Available

https://nicolesanchez.com/painting ...

Every angle tells a story.

"Medusa”, 2025. 31 x 31 x 96 cm. Ceramic vase, underglaze drawing, gold, triple fire by Nina Murashkina @ninamurashkina

"One of my favorite plot of Greek mythology is a personage of Medusa. In my interpretation it’s a terribly beautiful woman killing strangers by her look." ...

EXHIBITION PREVIEW // Brandi Milne: Now, and Forevermore at Corey Helford Gallery

Corey Helford Gallery @coreyhelfordgallery presents the highly-anticipated main gallery solo exhibition by celebrated American Pop Surrealist, Brandi Milne @brandimilne.

See the show in a preview by Natalia Joruk @talipops_j

> https://beautifulbizarre.net/brandi-milne-corey-helford-gallery-2026/ [link in bio]

Dates: May 16 – June 20, 2026

COREY HELFORD GALLERY
Main Gallery: 571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033

Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

(310) 287-2340

For more information please email sherri@coreyhelfordgallery.com ...