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Vincent Fink: Surrealistic Iterations

Last Modified October 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Artist Statement

In the pursuit to better redefine modern surrealism, I often find myself indulging in the vibrancy of color and concise composition with flaring elements of Sacred Geometry. The same level of intense detail is implored in all of my work but this series attempts to focus on the singularity and realism of the objects in my visions. I want to convey the world through another dimension: To see the hidden geometry that makes up everything in the universe. My education in 3D animation comes back in a surprising way as I break down complex organisms into their most basic shapes much like polygon modeling.

Allowing myself to fully run free in my mind, I travel to any environment or vacuum my heart desires. I am traveling everywhere I want to go, so I can be closer to my dreams and become better at actualizing them. This project has been an awakening of my true self that needed all previous lessons to attain.

Iterations have proven to be my strongest vehicle for exploring my fascination with shapes and dreamlike imagery via oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and panel. Dreams represent a higher dimension of consciousness to me, documented by Edgar Casey to be a medium of infinite insight, problem-solving and premonition. It seems only natural for one to explore this realm of higher consciousness on a 2 dimensional medium with the higher spacial dimensions, where Platonic Solids, Archemedian Solids and other geometries seem to unlock a representation of the underlying structure of nature.

The work also has hidden implications to the impact of evolution and attaining knowledge, for better or worse. We yield so much potential with recent discoveries, but as a race, we seem to be struggling with the same concerns of our ancestors. Survival is an on-going theme in my work especially in the face of misused information. I’m concerned with the persistence of imbalance in a technological age that could unite the world in abundance. The artwork will definitely cause a lot of progressive thinking and discussion about the unification of art and science, power and knowledge, predator and prey.

My goal is to blend the surreal with the real. To walk the lines of what is a thought and what is a movement, and mostly, to reach a higher state of mind through art.

Biography

Born April 1st, 1984 and growing up in the ever-crowding greater Houston area, Vincent Fink is an award-winning contemporary surrealist & full-time artist working out of his Winter Street Studio in the Arts District where he tirelessly adds to a multitude of expansive projects. His first series, Atlas Metamorphosis, started in 2010 with vigorously detailed greyscale sumi ink drawings spawned from a lucid dream. Since then, his art evolves from his series of Sacred Geometry Surrealism paintings, called Iterations, to multimedia public art and installations including sculpture and animation. The subconscious, with its symbolic story-telling, has always played a part in his cultural narrative message.

Hand Crafted Tetrahedrons

After attaining a degree in Media Arts & Animation from The Art Institute of Houston, he worked as a graphic designer searching in life for a higher purpose, a direction with his artistic abilities, yet was extremely lost. Then one night, with a sketch pad by his bed, he dreamt his future and immediately awoke to record it. In his subconscious state, he saw the first completed piece that would establish his art career. This series became known as the Atlas Metamorphosis and continues to take us through the 4 stages of an other-worldly, gigantic god-like beetle’s evolution. Each stage of its life cycle is accompanied by a new cultural empire or era of civilization.

77: A Fleshy Facade, A Cryptic Charade

This series won him the Talent Call Award, The Big Show – Best of, as well as a Hunting Art Prize finalist, twice, along with many shows and articles online and in print, but that is just one hemisphere of this, now, activated imagination. His second, most prolific series of acrylic and oil paintings called Iterations also garners equal prestige and focuses on his love for surrealism and sacred geometry.

03: Survival

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Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Landscape, Mysticism, Nature, Psychological, sacred geometry

Genres: Psychedelic Art, Visionary Art

James McCarthy

Last Modified October 13, 2019 Leave a Comment

James McCarthy is a surrealistic landscape painter. McCarthy’s psychedelic/cosmic mindscapes wrestle with the concepts of space-time and the afterlife.

Across the Event Horizon - Oil on canvas. 18x24
Along the Frozen Lake - Oil on canvas. 18x24
Cosmic Petunias - Oil on canvas. 20x30
Dawn in the Garden of Creation - Oil on canvas. 22x28
Death - Oil on canvas. 20x30
KODAK Digital Still Camera
KODAK Digital Still Camera
Echoes - Oil on canvas. 15x30
Halloween - Oil on canvas. 18x24
In the Court of the Crimson King - Oil on canvas. 20x30
Luminous Energy Harvesters II - Oil on canvas. 22x28
Nursery - Oil on canvas. 20x24
Shadow Box and Surroundings - Oil on canvas. 18x24
Stars and Snow - Oil on canvas. 15x30
Sunshower - Oil on canvas. 22x30
The Garden in the Valley of the Stars - Oil on canvas. 22x30
The Tower on the Edge of Infinity - Oil on canvas. 18x24
We Are Stardust - Oil on canvas. 22x28

Artist’s Statement

I’m a surrealist but I also consider myself a landscape painter.

I like to paint biomorphic forms but I’m also interested in capturing the moods of various landscapes.

I like to depict the weather and the seasons – the seasons especially because seasons note the passing of time.

Winter has a special meaning for me as well. It represents solitude and wonder.

Much of my work is inspired by ‘mindscape’ music such as New Age, psychedelic, certain classical pieces, prog rock and medieval music.

As I grow older I’ve become increasingly more intrigued by what life’s Final Door has in store for us. Is it a doorway to eternity or oblivion?

James McCarthy on DeviantArt
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Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Alegorical, Juxtaposition, Landscape, Lyrical, Mysticism, Nature, Psychological, Space, Time

Genres: Psychedelic Art, Visionary Art

Ruedi Eichenberger

Last Modified August 7, 2019 Leave a Comment

Ruedi Eichenberger is a Swiss abstract surrealist painter whose atmospheric landscapes straddle the boundaries of the symbolism and the abstract.

Plakatsäule
Die Taube
Subway Station
Eruption
Plus 10cm
Sign of the Times
Golden Valley
Floating

 

Artist Statement

Wallpaper patterns, plasterwork or just doodles have always animated my fantasies. I’ve recognized paintings in them and lost myself in the surreal world. Back in my childhood, those were the first contacts with surrealism.

When I was going to school, I used to draw doodles and sketches into my school books. It often started with a simple line that got embellished, shaded and like that everything found its place. One after another.

Letting things create themselves is an important step in my working. I start working without any plans, I let it arise. I don’t work with deadlines, the painting is finished when everything is its right place and I’m satisfied with the painting. I often only realize what it represents when I’m finished.

My goal is to represent the tremendous expressiveness of nature through my paintings. The power and strength of the wind, the dryness of the ground and even the humid air before a thunderstorm. In my eyes, nature is the mightiest of all artworks.

That’s when I combine nature with opposing motives. Surreal elements arise and join in.

First, the canvas is worked on with acrylic followed by multiple layers of oil paint. I mix the surreal and abstract with the intent to create an atmosphere.

I see my paintings as a window, through which you can glimpse another world.

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Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Alegorical, Juxtaposition, Landscape, Limited Color Palette, Mysticism, Psychological

Genres: Abstract Surrealism

Seamless

Last Modified October 12, 2019 Leave a Comment

Up Front by seamless
The Social Attempt by seamless
The Great Lesson by seamless
The Curious Ones by seamless
synthetic by seamless
pathfinder by seamless
Loop by seamless
Lets Live Here by seamless
Let's Go by seamless
Into Reality by seamless
Habits by seamless
GC-818 5 by seamless
Follow The Sign by seamless
Disunity by seamless
Deserted Reality by seamless
Contact by seamless by seamless
Bright Eyes (Forever Haunted) by seamless

Seamless is a Digital Composite Collage Artist

Artist: Seamless on Redbubble
Prints: Seamless on Society6

Filed Under: Collage Tagged With: Disintegration, Figurative, Juxtaposition, Landscape, Psychological, Sci-fi, Space

Genres: Surrealism

Philippe Charles Jacquet: Les Reclus (27 April–19 May, 2019)

Last Modified April 2, 2019 Leave a Comment

Will you be in New York City in April? Then you can’t miss Philippe Charles Jacquet’s surrealistic landscapes.

Philippe Charles Jacquet is an architectural painter: his haunting surrealistic landscapes are an exercise in precision, layered variety, and esoterism

Opening Reception on 27 April, 2019, 6-8pm
RSVP Required: info@hugogalerie.com

Le port d'attache, Oil on board, 28¾ x 47¼_
Les Reclus, Oil on board, 31½_ x 31½_
Une soirée ordinaire, Oil on board, 47¼_ x 47¼_

Les Reclus is a solo exhibition featuring the carefully articulated dreamscapes of Philippe Charles Jacquet to be exhibited at the Hugo Galerie in New York City. The show introduces new pieces by the artist in his celebrated style in which he builds his watery worlds with various and highly planned painting techniques.

Les Reclus’ title is more relevant to his canvas’ structural capacity than their figural; while most canvases contain more than one figure, rarely does a canvas contain more than one structure. The reclusivity of Jacquet’s built environments, dramatically poised within surreal and stretching landscapes, lends his paintings an enigmatic quality. Adding to their mystery is the fact that they cannot be quickly dismissed as make-believe—they are too realistic, too aligned with our own experiences of stone houses, wooden rowboats, reflection pools, receding tides, and cloud-filled horizons. Even the slope of a figure’s slouching shoulders is too… personal.

Jacquet is an architectural painter; he plans his landscapes and their built environments with measured precision, constructing them in a layered variety of media and methods until they are as real as they are imagined. The materiality finessed, from mirror-like water to rust-scored wood grain, brings his painted compositions to life. The combination of textures, geometric accuracy, and concise colors creates an esotericism that includes viewers rather than excludes them; Jacquet’s solitary structures do not reject but envelop the viewer with the familiarity of a feeling. As if we’ve been here before. Perhaps in a dream.

Hugo Galerie is a fine art gallery in New York City specializing in contemporary figurative painting and sculpture. The gallery represents an international roster of artists working in a variety of media and range of genres.

Le Reclus, oil on board, 311⁄2″ x 311⁄2″ (80 x 80cm)
Le Port d’Attache, oil on board, 283⁄4” x 351⁄2” (73 x 90.2cm)
Une Soirée Ordinaire, oil on board, 471⁄4″ x 471⁄4″ (120 x 120cm)

See Jacquet’s previous feature in Surrealism Today from 2015.

Filed Under: Art Exhibition, Painting Tagged With: Art Exhibition, Figurative, Landscape, Limited Color Palette, Lyrical, Nature, Psychological

Genres: Surrealism

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