Netherlands-based artist Redmer Hoekstra has created this series of stunning surreal pen drawings…

The marble sculptures by British artist Matthew Simmonds aren't your typical human forms popularized by the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Simmonds leaves the natural edges of the rocks juxtaposed with his small, finished spaces.

István Sándorfi (In France Étienne Sandorfi, born 12 June 1948 in Budapest, Hungary, died 26 December 2007 in Paris, France) was a Hungarian hyperrealist painter.

Japanese artist Azuma Makoto has worked with bonsai trees in the past, but his newest botanical art project is out of this world—literally. On July 15, Makoto and his crew ventured to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to launch two objects into space: "Shiki 1," a 50-year-old white pine bonsai suspended from a metal frame, and an untitled arrangement of orchids, hydrangeas, lilies, irises, and other flowers.

Jeremiah Stermer was born in Baltimore. He started his artistic path at the age of 11. Jeremiah Stermer considers himself a realist – surrealist, meaning that the theme is always surrealistic, but the painting is made in a traditional way. He states that he draws and paints very naturally, and that he pays the particular attention on the air around the subjects of his paintings and considers the mood as the crucial element of his works.

Jieun Park

Jieun Park, Korean artist practices a style of night breaks in the same pattern: the moon provides the base light for these painted snap shots. Jieun Park creates the rest of the light herself by placing artificial lights in the windows of the city buildings to evoke an aura that seems especially apt for the subject matter.

John T. Salminen

Salminen was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned his Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree from the University of Minnesota. He lives in a self-built log cabin surrounded by 40 acres of pine forest in Duluth, Minnesota. For nearly 34 years, Salminen was a high school art teacher. Although he started college as a music major, Salminen became enchanted by the art studio during his high school years. He painted while teaching high school students.

Juan Carlos Manjarrez

Juan Carlos Manjarrez is a hyperrealistic artist currently based out of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico who creates amazing figurative oil paintings. Manjarrez’s work is pretty astonishing to say the least, and I can’t image what it’s like to view his work in person.

katharine Morling

london-based artist katharine Morling crafts pieces she describes as ‘three-dimensional drawings’, in the medium of ceramics. the life size pieces, and the unexpectedness of their scale, create a slightly surreal experience; from faux-wood paint to hand painted pins, screws, zippers and stitching, the black and white flat illustrations on each white ceramic item give it a curious sense of being both two and three-dimensional at the same time.

Key Sculpture in Prague

Kobe Biennale, Japanese designers