Happy Friday, folks! Here’s a fabulously floral figure getting ready to hit the town, painted by Devan Shimoyama. The Philadelphia-born artist enlivens his work with “glitter, rhinestones, fabric and sequins”, in the words of Charlotte Jansen for Elephant in 2019. These materials, “typically used by drag queens and feminine-presenting features”, allude to queer visual language, Jansen continues, while the structure of his paintings “harkens back to Goya and Caravaggio”. Shimoyama, meanwhile, describes his fantastical pieces as “functioning as much more brazen than I could ever actually be in person”, his aim being to depict masculinity as “limitless and ever-changing, according to how any individual feels at any given moment”. Read more here.
