When Gummy Watches Meet Dream Cars: Emerging Artists Rewrite the Everyday

Candy jewelry, slap bracelets, and a Baby G watch—objects that once defined childhood now find new life in contemporary art. The Tokyo duo System of Culture turns these fleeting icons into cinematic photographs, blending nostalgia with a wink at obsolescence. Their work captures the uncanny beauty of earbuds and Tide pods, making the ordinary feel both timely and timeless. Meanwhile, Johanna Seidel paints pastel road trips where the mundane morphs into the fantastical, her dreamlike scenes balancing the familiar with the surreal. Murray Clarke’s hyperrealist sweaters invite a closer look at our love affair with material comfort, questioning what lies beneath the surface of luxury. Sophia Heymans flips the landscape tradition, painting from above to let nature, not people, take center stage. And Megan Gabrielle Harris creates serene worlds where Black and Brown women rest and reflect, offering a quiet antidote to the rush of daily life. Together, these artists remind us: the overlooked and everyday can become portals to wonder, if we only pause to see. #EmergingArtists #ContemporaryArt #ArtCollectors