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.
Michael Peck’s artistic practice is concerned with the sensation of disorientation and dislocation that is often felt within the post modern world. Exploring issues regarding the loss of cultural identity, his work particularly focuses on the effects within minority groups and individuals existing on the fringe who are challenged to assimilate within the larger community. (more)
Michael Peck was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1977.
Here’s the statement related to this piece of art:
At a distance of 18,000 km from the earth the elephant Würsa would be able to balance on her trunk. It is on the basis of learned scientific calculations that Daniel Firman reached this conclusion and came to produce this extraordinary work which confounds all our certainties regarding the gravitation of bodies.
This hyper-realist sculpture calling on the skills of a taxidermist conjures up ideas of both lightness and of heaviness, so enabling the artist to offer a novel and spectacular physical and psychological experience.
Exploring the huge territory of sculpture, Daniel Firman presents anonymous characters and elements from everyday life in situation that seem to be in precarious equilibrium. For more than a decade he has been developing a unique formal language and is particularly interested in the question of bodies: Würsa à 18,000 km de la Terre, a novel creation made specially for the Palais de Tokyo is the new expression. (Source).
Same sculpture, but on the artist’s official website. Daniel Firman is a French artist born inn Bron (France) in 1966. He currently works and lives in Paris.
About Aaron Romine:
In Aaron Romine’s recent paintings his characters have become stand-ins for something larger. Although obviously recognizable as specific people (they are all actually his friends), the work is contemplative and the scenes are a commentary on current culture. His painstaking paintings have become psychological allegories. He has looked past pure sexuality into how his subjects relate to each other, pushing their relationships to a level of intimacy. While influenced by such artists as Manet, Piazetta, Gaugin, Sargent, and Velazquez, his work has recently veered away from (strictly) historical references. (PragueBiennale.org).
First spotted via This Isn’t Happiness.
This photorealist painting belongs to the Desire for Anima series:
an exhibition of new oil paintings on paper by Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri. His paintings of young women are unusual for their uncanny realism and psychologically engaging presence. This is achieved by Ozeris using both still photography and video in their initial stages, and painting the final works with thousands of tiny brushstrokes which animate the paintings, surfaces.
This series of paintings explores portraits of young women, either standing together nude in dense grass fields, or posed alone, often wearing a pink diaphanous and lace gown. Many appear like film still, caught, unawares, unselfconsciously laughing, or moving through the lush backgrounds. Others gaze directly at the viewer in a somewhat challenging and unsettling manner. In some, all that is visible are fragments of the girls, body, faces, limbs, richly textured garments. In every painting, Ozeri captures the vulnerability of the girls bodies, at the transitional age between youth and maturity. For the artist, the results of his paintings express his feminine, anima, Carl Jungs concept of the essential woman. This psychological presence is the hidden essence of his work. (more)
Yigal Ozeri was born in Israel in 1958. He now lives and works in New York.
Rodgers late paintings are somehow reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis novel Glamorama.
About Terry Rodgers:
“Rodgers’ current work focuses on portraying contemporary body politics. His rendering of the upper-class leisure life stands as an iconic vision of today’s society. The resulting paintings are not snapshots or slices of life, not verite records of actual moments in actual party or family situations, or diaristic records of his life, but carefully constructed and composited fictions, designed to elicit the most meaning and sustain the maximum amount of ambiguity.
Terry Rodgers attended Amherst College, with a major in the Fine Arts. His strong interest in film and photography influenced his style in the direction of representational realism in art.” (more)
Artist statement:
“Importantly, however, is that nothing I create is meant to judge or criticize. I am merely looking closely at who we are, the density of influences upon us, the choices we make, and the recognitions that occur in trying to comprehend a universe with no signposts.” (more)
First spotted via This Isn’t Happiness.
Nicolae Comanescu is a Romanian artist living in Bucharest. About this series:
“This is an exhibition with cityscapes and about common city trademarks. It is an exhibition with paintings literally resulting out of a mix of different city perspectives. The perspectives of the city dweller such as you and me, of Nicolae Comanescu the city artist, of everybody who enjoys an active live in the middle of a modern metropolis such as Bucharest, New York, London, Berlin or Paris. (by Stefan Tiron read more)
Check (one of) his blog. See also the “Dust 2.0” series.
About Aaron Nagel:
“Aaron Nagel is a figurative painter living in Oakland CA. Having received no formal training, he is entirely self-taught; a fact at odds with his seemingly classical approach to surrealism. In his current work, he explores specific themes of guilt and power, always associated with his views on the perils of organized religion and theism” (more).
About the “Marks” exhibition:
“Marks is Aaron Nagel’s largest and most cohesive body of work to date. The eleven oil paintings in this series use imagery of youthful women in the nude, often impaled by archery arrows. These figures embody Catholic martyrs such as St. Sebastian, offering atheists and skeptics an alternative to traditional religious symbolism. As Aaron is inspired by the contrast between power and the fragility of the human body, Marks is infused with imagery that is at once calm and violent.” (more)
Visit Aaron’s blog.
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).
Emily Burns has a BFA in painting and photography. On her resume, we learn that she’s (or was) an artist assistant over at the Jeff Koons Studio in New York.
First spotted via This Isn’t Happiness.
 | The Hyperrealist style focuses much more of its emphasis on details and the subjects. Hyperreal paintings and sculptures are not strict interpretations of photographs, nor are they literal illustrations of a particular scene or subject. Instead, they utilize additional, often subtle, pictorial elements to create the illusion of a reality which in fact either does not exist or cannot be seen by the human eye. Furthermore, they may incorporate emotional, social, cultural and political thematic elements as an extension of the painted visual illusion; a distinct departure from the older and considerably more literal school of Photorealism. |
Previously on Skandalon : hyperrealism.
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.
