32 posts tagged “painting”
Gina Litherland's surreal paintings seem to me like illustrations to archiac fairytales - the traditional or original versions of those fairytales, in which the children get eaten and the princes never show up.
Glenn Barr's work definitely has a retro '60s feel, exemplified most especially in his lovely ladies. The site design is great too.
Rachel Wong's characters are like a psychopathic child's imaginary friends. Creepy yet... endearing?
Josh Taylor's paintings have a fairytale quality to me, albeit an askew one. There's also an Edward Gorey -esqueness to his titles that make me smile and rethink the image.
Shawn Barber's Tattooed Portraits are rich and affecting. Especially love his combination of multiple angles within the same figure in some of the portraits to better display the tats of his subjects; it creates a really morphed sense of movement.
At first, Sas Christian's Big Eye Paintings seem to be more of the played-out infantilization of women in art, but looking closer I realized it's different from that. Generally, the faces aren't exactly women-as-doe-eyed-children but women with just obscenely exaggerated eyes (and other features), shown in a straight jacket or smoking or covered in blood. There's definitely a Lolita vibe, but it's done well. This is another painter who amazes me, since at first I was convinced these were digital. (The artist states they are oil on canvas or board).
