Lee Price graduated from the Moore College of Art in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting. It’s interesting to note that he (she?) took private studies with Alyssa Monk.
Previously on Skandalon : Paul Roberts, photorealistic paintings of bodies in or on water.
Another photorealist painting of a body in water? Nope, it’s a photograph by Aaron Farley. Got ya.
About Aaron Farley:“Photography brought Aaron to Los Angeles in 2000, where he now lives, camera always close at hand, with his wife Michelle and daughter Lyla. It all started when he was 20, and had landed back at his parents house with a broken leg from skateboarding a week after dropping out of College. His mom had given him an old Konica 35mm for his birthday so she signed him up for a photo class at Spokane Falls Community College to get him out of the house.” (more)
About Paul Roberts:
“Paul Roberts (born in Tiverton, Devon, 1948) is the former lead singer and songwriter of Sniff ‘n’ the Tears. He is also known for his work as a photorealistic painter. He did a number of music albums under his own name. The music is very similar to the Sniff ‘n’ Tears music. The key albums were City without Walls(1985) and Kettle Drum Blues(1987). The album Slowdown (1992) is a mainly a compilation of the two albums stated before.
Roberts was brought up in Wales by his parents, both themselves artists. Having studied at Newport, Cardiff and Goldsmiths College of Art, he gained early recognition as a painter in the 1970s before his career was interrupted by world-wide success with the rockband Sniff ‘n’ the Tears in 1978. In 1988 he moved with his family to Somerset. Until 2000, his music commitments curtailed the time he had available to develop as a painter.” (wikipedia)
Visit his official website.
Compare with others photorealistic paintings of bodies in or on water (by Adam Stennett, Damian Loeb, Alyssa Monk and Erci Zener).
Previously on Skandalon : Paul Roberts.
About the artist:
“Trained in Florence, Iatly and the SF Academy of Art University (BFA), Benjamin’s work was first presented in the De Young Museum of Fine Arts ‘Emerging Artists Exhibition’ of 2007. He has been creating monumental oil painting since 2002 and has been recognized for his portraiture by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.” (more)
First spotted via Pasa La Vida.
Adam Stennett was born in 1972, in Kotzebue, Alaska. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
If you like this one be sure to check his other paintings and all of his work on paper. It’s interesting to find a link to Damian Loeb’s website in his “links” section.
“Damian Loeb (born May 9, 1970 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American painter. Self-taught, he moved to New York City in the early 1990s. Discovered by Jeffrey Deitch, Loeb had his first solo in 1999. Since then, he has had international solo and group shows at galleries and museums, including the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, White Cube in London, the Jablonka Galerie in Cologne, the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, and a 2006 retrospective of his work at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art[1] in Connecticut. His work is featured in several prestigious private collections, including Douglas Cramer, Michael Lynne, and the Rubell Family Collection, and has attracted the attention of a number of collectors. He is currently represented by the Acquavella Gallery.” (Wikipedia). Visit his unofficial website.
Eric Zener is “California artist creating figurative work with underwater themes.” Read an article about Zener’s work by Jessica Lyons: “Swimming strong: Eric Zener creates narrative paintings that float between introspection and escapism.” (2004)
I first came to know this artist via Pasa La Vida.
About Alyssa Monks :
“Alyssa’s paintings are of a representational narrative genre. She portrays a specific place and time with simultaneous empathy and detachment. Monks is part of the Continuing Education Faculty at the New York Academy of Art, where she teaches Flesh Painting. She currently is also an instructor at the Montclair State University.”
Read more on her profile.
