Artist Click Mort creates ‘recapitated figures’ using the parts of different, pre-existing ceramic figurines to create quirky new hybrid statues. Often imbued with narrative humor, the seamless figures also hold a sense of nostalgia as most of the figures source parts from past eras. View more of the kitschy figures after the jump.

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We last covered Eric Fortune's paintings in 2009 with Hi-Fructose Vol.13, and soon after with his piece for the Hi-Fructose Anniversary show. We thought it was high time to check on what he's been up to. Fortune's ethereal layered drip technique is painstaking, but the moody results are spectacular. Here's a few recent works from Fortune and we can't wait to show you previews form his upcoming show at Labasse Projects Gallery. 

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Amongst the thousands of paintings, sculptures, prints and photographs featured at the 2012 LA Art Show, one gallery's booth in particular caught our attention with their strong new contemporary programming, Arcadia Fine Arts from New York. We featured the gallery here on the Hi-Fructose site last year, and with artists such as Aron Wisenfeld (HF Vol. 14) and Kris Lewis (HF Vol. 20) showing there regularly, stay tuned for more on this established and exciting space. In the meantime, get a look at the new works by Wiesenfeld, John Brosio, Malcolm Liepke, Francis Livingston and more, here on Hi-Fructose.

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‘Ephemeral Antidotes’, a solo exhibition by artist Arabella Proffer, recently opened at SF’s Articulated Gallery. The large body of new works explore medical superstitions and the gruesome treatment practices of the past. While the paintings focus on Proffer’s signature style of imagined portraits that juxtapose old world aesthetics with flourishes of modern identity, this series is charged with a subtle confessional slant as Proffer spent time researching the horrors of past medical practices while convalescing from an aggressive form of cancer that caused the removal of part of her leg. This traumatic experience is chronicled in the obsessions and afflictions of her subjects to an intriguing effect. View more images of the new works after the jump.

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We recently had the chance to visit artist Christine Wu’s studio in Los Angeles, where she currently preparing for her upcoming show 'Shhh...' at La Luz De Jesus Gallery next month where she’ll be showing alongside Soey Milk. (recently featured here) Her organized studio was filled with white texts adhered to the walls as both instructions and inspiration, as new works in progress freckled the walls and floors. Imbued with a subtle yet tentative sexuality, the figures of her paintings are captured in states of flux, often appearing as occupying the same space with multiple versions of themselves. View more images of her studio provided by Daniel Rolnik after the jump.

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This past weekend, Hi-Fructose took a trip down to Los Angeles to check out the 2012 art fairs (see our coverage of the Affordable Art Fair here.) The city's largest fair, the LA Art Show, opened with a bang on Wednesday night, packed with celebrities (as to be expected in Los Angeles) for a star studded night of fine and contemporary art. Of course, we were in attendance to check out the art, of which there was plenty. Though the fair lacked any real street art presence (odd considering the successes of the recent MOCA show), there were still some gems scattered throughout the fair which presented a refreshing blend of fine, contemporary, classic, Chinese and print works. Get a look at some of the pieces that caught our eye after the jump.

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