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NKSIN, real name Shin Nakagawa, is a Filipino-Japanese artist who creates largely monotone figurative busts of various characters — some resembling pop cultural figures, others entirely featureless. Created using airbrush on canvas, much of his work is aesthetically inspired by '90s animation as he seeks to address societal issues in a humorous way.For his latest solo exhibition, NKSIN is showcasing a new body of work entitled REVIVAL at albertz benda gallery in Los Angeles. Growing up in-between Japan and the Philippines, his artwork is deeply informed by his biracial identity and the social inequity and discrimination experienced along the way. Entirely self-taught, NKSIN distills human emotions into sardonic portraits that act as a respite to the information overload ever-present today....

Ben Sanders is a Los Angeles-based artist best known for creating surreal compositions that float in between figuration and abstraction. Much of his pictorial references stem from the images he observed growing up, from Hollywood set props, Chinese hard candy, motorized tools, Taiwanese apple soda — ad infimum. Marta gallery in Los Angeles is featuring the latest solo exhibition by American pop artist, entitled New Cap.Standout pieces in the show include Sander's decade-long bottle cap series, in which he creates exaggerated compositions made of vibrant enameled steel works that probe into everyday visual lexicon. Aesthetically, each bottle cap shifts from kaleidoscopic depictions of flowers and astrological signs to sci-fi renditions of biological figures and the endless visuals that ofte...

The Brant Foundation is playing host to a massive new exhibition of over 100 artworks by Andy Warhol at its East Village location in New York. Entitled Thirty Are Better Than One, the show is curated by the gallery's founder, Peter M. Brant, who was a friend and early patron of the artist, and covers each period in Warhol's prolific career. The show is named after Warhol's famous reinterpretation of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, in which he screen-printed 30 black-and-white images of the painting onto a canvas. Created in 1963, shortly after Warhol's early stint as a commercial artist, the artwork would come to anticipate the many silkscreen reproductions he would be known for, as he showcased an "acute interest in mechanical repetition, the excess of images, and the disruption of art wo...