Challis’ Friday favorites for 09/02/11
Here is a weekly feature called ‘Friday favorites’ where we highlight some of our favorite inspirations from this last week, enjoy.
Challis’ Friday favorites for 06/03/11
Here is a weekly feature called ‘Friday favorites’ where we highlight some of our favorite inspirations from this last week, enjoy.
Artist: Mark Ryden, oil painting
Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in a new genre of painting, “Pop Surrealism”, dragging a host of followers in his wake. Ryden has trumped the initial surrealist strategies by choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation.
Artist: David Platt, acrylic painting
David Platt is an emerging New York artist with a singular vision and a matching style of painting. In 2006, he cultivated a palette of contrasts, and developed the staccato line technique that would eventually become his signature. In his current work, David attempts to reconcile opposites. His work depicts a psychological landscape where inner and outer space converge; where construction and destruction are indistinguishable; where microorganisms fuse to become macro-organisms ad infinitum. Out of the abstract soup emerges corporeality, whose forms and contours are undifferentiated, existing for a timeless instant before death and reintegration.
Artist: Ian Francis, multimedia painting
Ian Francis was born in 1979 in Bristol, England, and graduated from the University of the West of England with a degree in Illustration. His work concentrates on modern experiences: things like television, world events, celebrities, and day-to-day living. His mediums generally include oil, acrylic, ink, charcoal and graphite on canvas.