Do you remember the scene in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” where Jim Carrey is frantically running around inside his mind trying to salvage his memories as a team scrambles to erase them from his bedside? That intense sense of witnessing your memories evaporate right in front of you has been captured by artist Miquel Wert.  His haunting paintings feature blurred figures in snapshot moments; fragments of the past caught in a suspended state of hazy, diminished memory, and I am a big fan.
Archive for the ‘mixed media’ Category
Miquel Wert
Monday, December 7th, 2009Katie Muth
Friday, November 13th, 2009Ok, I realize that this is Paintblog, and that Katie Muth is a printmaker, but I’m going to justify her inclusion by pointing out that she sometimes adds small elements of colour to her linocuts with watercolour.
Aw, who am I kidding, I don’t need any more justification than the fact that she creates astonishing images that deserve to be recognized as such. Enjoy!
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009The dreamy and idyllic quality in so much of Isca Greenfield-Sanders’ work is what first pulled me in, but I quickly noticed the clues that suggested the dream was just that, and reality was in fact breaking into the image as I looked on. Â Mathematical grids dissected warm days on the beach and sunny pastoral fields, and suddenly these worlds became even more than the dreams they started out as.
Laurie Skantzos
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Hovering between abstractions and nature studies, Laurie Skantzos‘ paintings are an incredible blend of colour, form, and texture. Enjoy!
Hermann Mejia
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Hermann Mejia is one of those rare and enviable visual artists who can work in just about any medium and produce astonishing work. It is definitely worth spending some time on his site to explore the various directions he travels.
Ivy Jacobsen
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009The beautiful images of natural landscapes created by Ivy Jacobsen are almost hypnotic. Â I want to step into these scenes and live there for a while, and because of her extensive layering process, I feel like I could do just that.
Jaclyn Shoub
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009In her ethereal landscapes Jaclyn Shoub manages to highlight the absence of what previously existed as much as she depicts what remains. The result is a series of haunting images that linger long after I’ve left her site.
David Kopulos
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Witnessing the way another person chooses to represent the world in their art is a way into seeing how another person sees the world, and I love the way David Kopulos sees the world.
Ryan McGinness
Monday, September 14th, 2009The complex patterning and heavily layered imagery of Ryan McGinness’ work is eye-catching and impressive, and becomes even more so when he takes his paintings into the third dimension. Very cool.
Julia Prime
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009It might be a slight stretch to call Julia Prime’s work “painting”, it would be more accurate to say she is bringing the worlds of printmaking, painting and textile arts together. Â It isn’t a stretch at all to say that the results are fantastically organic and appealing.