Thinkspace is pleased to present A Quiet Place, featuring new works by Stephanie Buer and Linnea Strid. Both painters explore the solitudes that define their respective creative practices and subjects. Whether it be the desolation of forgotten urban spaces taking on ghostly traces and pregnant absences, as in Buer’s work, or the personal isolation of the artist and the anxiety of hyper-awareness, as in Strid’s - both artists delve into the recesses of poetic silence and separateness.

Over the past 6 months, we have noticed a trend that we thought was true and was proven correct. Our readers love a good hyperreal, photorealstic painting. Each artist with the skill to create a photorealistic piece has their own style and strengths, and we combed over our content from the past year to bring to you the very best photoreal painters featured Juxtapoz.com. Don't blink and make sure you look closely. These are the talents that make you have a double take.

Do you create lustfull illustrations?? Sinfully beautiful film or photographic work? Erotic sculptural installation? OR something we've never even seen before? Juxtapoz is constantly in search of new talent and to give credit to the derserving and under-exposed. Juxtapoz is open to all types of erotic works, all shapes, colors and sizes, fantasies, fetish, future, innocence, love and gore.

Hyper-real is the new real. Linnea Strid is based in Uppsala, Sweden where she creates her hyper-realistic oil paintings that often feature the incorporation of water as a central element of the work. Strid renders skin and water in a way that confuses the onlooker as to whether or not the image they are looking at is a photograph or indeed a painting.