Valerio D'Ospina born 1980 in Taranto, Italy is an internationally acclaimed contemporary artist who lives and works in Pennsylvania, USA. D'Ospina is focusing on urbanscapes and his oil paintings are truly masterful. Follow him on Instagram.

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Creation Full of Power, Speed and Rhythm by Tian Haisu

Originally from China, Tian Haisu has adapted two art forms to create her own unique artworks.  She uses rollerblades that are fitted with ink pots to paint on large scale canvasses.  Her work mirrors the art of calligraphy, while the physicality of creating the work is like ice skating, which is Tian Haisu’s other love.    In an interview she explains:

My whole body is involved and I produce all kinds of ink landscapes. Such creation is full of power, speed and rhythm. (The Daily Mail)

Her works are very large. One of her latest paintings was 43 feet by 20 feet. Tian Haisu is currently studying art at the California College of Art. Thanks to Junk Culture.

Untitled, 27 May 1970. 

Coast Pennywort by Meredith Woolnough.

Moun Room by Thomas Houseago 

Moun Room comprises three chambers contained within one another, spanning approximately 37 feet by 45 feet wide, and 12 feet above the viewer. playing with notions of negative and positive, geometric apertures are cut from the panel walls and constructed in bas-relief, mimicking the lunar phase of the moon.

"My work explores systems: their creation, use and control. In 1994 I became interested in human interaction with technology and nonlinear information. Much of my work that followed dealt with the internet and code. My investigations made me increasingly intrigued with the relationships between perception and coded language. I began to explore the organization and chaos of complex systems, including tax evasion, the metaverse, money laundering, sock puppets and astroturfing, identity theft, the technological singularity, and most recently waste, urbanism, pathogens and poisons. My interpretations of these kinds of information spaces are motivated by my daily visual intake and life experiences. Power, information, misinformation, semantics, sociology, counter-culture/over the counter culture, identity, order, code, crime, consumerism, economics- these are the topics that drive my thinking and the production of my work." Artist Statement via Derek Lerner

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"I don’t want to explain to somebody what pollen is. … That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the potential of all this." —Wolfgang Laib

In this week’s Season 7 preview, artist Wolfgang Laib discusses his interest in pollen, while shown installing Pollen from Hazelnut (2013) at the Museum of Modern Art in 2013—sifting hazelnut pollen collected by the artist since the mid-1990s.

WATCH: Preview of Wolfgang Laib in Legacy

Season 7 of ART21 Art in the Twenty-First Century premieres Friday, October 24, 2014 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). Legacy airs Friday, November 7, 2014.