Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira shows absolutely no respect to art galleries’ walls! It’s as if he has the supernatural ability to control trees, making them burst through the walls at his own whim.

When Oliveira was a student in São Paulo, there was a plywood fence outside his window that began to peel and fade into different layers and colors. The wood, called tapumes in Portuguese, is ubiquitous in the Brazilian city. When the fence was dismantled, Oliveira collected the remains and used them as raw materials for his senior show.

Now, as a professional artist, Oliveira has clearly stepped up his game. After scavenging the dumpsters of São Paulo, the artist paints peels of wood after they are curled onto a PVC pipe skeleton. Oliveira chooses wood pieces that are already splitting and dying because they perfectly represent the decay of life in the city.

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Get ready for this! Figurative, animal and fantastical works are the focus of three contemporary female artists who are coming together for Flight and Fable, which opens at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California on May 21.

Sarah Folkman explores the human form with winged creatures for her series Experiments in Flight while Krista Huot will presentChangelings, a further exploration into her famous storybook worlds. Finally, you can expect Isabel Samaras to be showing her fantastic work from her series titled Heavy Gretel.

Sounds like an amazing show and one you won’t want to miss!

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