Russian surrealist Pavel Tchelitchew (21 September 1898, Moscow – 31 July 1957, Rome) left Russia in 1920 and spent parts of his artistic career in Germany, France, and the United States, where he became a citizen in 1952. His first show was at the New York Museum Of Modern Art, and below is what is perhaps his most famous piece, Hide And Seek, which is still on display there.

Read a more in-depth biography of Tchelitchew here.

Portland conceptual artist Abraham Ingle‘s first solo show is quite a curious one. Starting today at False Front Studio in Portland, Ingle will be displayed his socially-inspired art. The show, entitled If A Tree Falls… consists of all new practice projects which explore notions of presence in the age of “always on.” You should definitely visit this blog post on Ingle’s website to view more of the summary, but I’ll pick and choose a couple of interesting components to the six-part show:

Interruptions is a series of three videos that mix content from social media, drama, and real life to explore interaction. Interruptions was made in collaboration with Dustin Zemel.

A collaboration with The Portrait Booth Project, This is How I See You uses portraiture to juxtapose states of hyper-awareness and obliviousness.

The entire show will be streaming on Chat Roulette the entire time. YES.

This is sure to be a fascinating show.

Painted and illustrator Jen Lobo depicts animals living in a world that is rife with love and beauty. Scientifically accurate drawings displayed with pastel color palettes creates soft environments in which creatures live and play delightfully.

Dave MacDowell is a self-taught artist who creates some extremely detailed works centered around pop culture icons. Fast food brands, movie actors, and commonplace logos show up time and time again in his pieces, but that doesn’t really mean that his works are boring or derivative. They’re chaotic, colored in otherworldly hues, and always telling a million stories at once. I have a feeling that MacDowell is constantly cracking himself up as he creates, and that’s always a fun sign. (I think he also really likes to draw Jack Nicholson. This is just a hypothesis.)

The Breakfast Fight Club

Lord Of The Onion Rings

Miseryland

The Little Prince

Duck And Cover

I just wanted to take my art posting goofiness down a notch and feature some works by someone who really captures beauty in poetic ways. Tran Nguyen‘s sensitive soul is highlighted with her tender, emotional pieces which utilize subtle hints of patterning to accent plain portraits. Even the titles she names her pieces are fantastic.

Color/pattern me amused, amazed, and ridiculously impressed. It’s simply too good! Too good! Too good!!!!

and our world came tumbling after

parting from your wayward heart

do not breathe in the moon

what the world doesn’t know

our flutter-some ordeal

I get a little bit tird of hipster art photography sometimes (not to say that Miss Scarpulla is necessarily a hipster). You know the type — the type that takes over all Tumblr pages ad nauseum, with bleached out colors of pretty people, set against sunshiny backdrops. Well, they’re pretty photos, but they’re generally pretty photos that are indistinguishable from hoards of other pretty photos.

But every once in a while, you find photography by certain artists that might fall under that bracket on the surface, but really are much, much more interesting once you look closer.

Alison Scarpulla fits this description. She has two Flickr accounts — her popular one (aliscarpulla) and her less conceptual, more abstract one (freebliss). Both are brilliant. The photos from the former are often dark, haunting, and hazy tromps into smoky worlds:

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Here are some photos from the latter — in particular, some glitched out lovelies: