Los Angeles-based painter Audrey Kawasaki‘s haunting imagery of both sexualized women and lucid imagery of death and lust leaves something categorically in it’s own. Her consistent style of wood-based paintings with oil and graphite gives her art the distinct feeling of the embodiment of nature and humanity. Captivating the audience with fixated eyes and the collaborative efforts of an art nouveau and japanese manga, Audrey’s art has found a place in the souls of thousands. “I paint them [that way] because they are distant, elusive and unattainable, and slip right through your hands,“ explains Kawasaki. Caught between timeless and modern, her artwork is something to be heard about for a long, long time.

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