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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

Nam Das

Last Modified August 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

Nam Das (b.1989) creates visual stories by arranging figurative elements like an assemblage forming a central idea. An idea which plays around the different archetypes of the collective unconscious or mythologems observed throughout history.

He began to work as a full-time painter at the start of 2019.

Slow Motion Explosion
Camp Fire Flight
As Above
Rites of the Hunt
Sibylline Song
Forethought Unbound
A Thousand Suns
Satellite Seasons
Flora Fauna Marta
Old Adage
Sites:

https://hnamdas.wixsite.com/paintings
https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/1229023
https://www.instagram.com/thenamdas/

Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Alegorical, Figurative, Juxtaposition, Limited Color Palette, Nature, Painterly, Portrait, Psychological

Genres: Surrealism

Chris Leib

Last Modified August 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

Bonobo Codependency - Chris Leib
Origin of Dreams - Chris Leib
Bonobo Trinity - Chris Leib
Bonobo Lollipop Coup - Chris Leib
Origins - Chris Leib
Caturday Night Massacre - Chris Leib
Bonobo Primate Directive - Chris Leib
In Dubious Battle - Chris Leib

Artist Statement

Chris Leib examines our precarious path started long ago, through his cast of wise, tolerant bonobos and rambunctious astronaut children. While seemingly whimsical, the paintings are laden with hidden meaning and explore themes of heroism, Western folklore, and the schism of instinct and control. Weaving through the meticulous detail in these paintings, threads of symbols and narrative point to a collision trajectory of power, privacy and technology that threatens our delicate position in the evolutionary scheme.

Chris Leib is an American fine artist and graduate of anthropology, renowned for his iconography of bonobo chimps and astronauts and cosmonauts, often juxtaposed, with exquisite technique and scrupulous attention to detail. Transcending whimsy, his paintings are imbued with meaning and intellectual contemplation. Leib’s work explores themes of heroism, human endeavour and the sensitivity of human hopes and ambitions for possible realities of science-fact. His work challenges us to contemplate a collision of science fiction, reality and religion, this three-car pileup viewed from the vantage point of our evolutionary ancestors, who have quietly continued to evolve themselves.

Chris Leib was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and splits his time between Berlin and California. His father, an artist and teacher, encouraged him to draw from an early age. His love of science fiction and Star Trek was incubated in the 1970s in a dark basement while he watched black and white TV; his interest in primates began at the University of California Berkeley, where he studied anthropology. After college, while working as a furniture mover, he answered an ad seeking people who could sketch. Four months later, he was offered a job as an illustrator. He later studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, after which he apprenticed with the Italian portrait painter Roberto Lupetti. During this time he also began working as an illustrator for McGraw-Hill Publishing and exhibiting paintings.

Leib has exhibited his artwork across the United States as well as in Germany, France, Denmark and Australia. His art has been positively reviewed in Hi-Fructose magazine, Huffington Post, Kunst Magazin (Berlin), Supersonic Electronic, Village Voice, Beautiful Bizarre, and HEY! magazine. Leib has twice been an Artist in Residence at the De Young Museum in San Francisco and has received competitive grants from the George Sugarman Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission. His work can be found in important public and private collections in the United States and Europe.

Links

chrisleib.com
Chris Leib Prints
facebook.com/ChrisLeibArt
instagram.com/chrisleibart

Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Alegorical, Animals, Figurative, Nature, Painterly, Portrait, 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

Marjorie Darrow

Last Modified March 21, 2019 1 Comment

Gateway to the Subconscious

Artist Statement

The main theme of my work has always been the connection and synergy of all living organisms. It’s symbolic of the delicate balance and inter-dependency of life. I see these interconnections as a perfectly choreographed dance where each element is singular, yet part of the whole. It’s a simple and timely message, and my hope is that the viewer recognizes this in my artwork and takes with them a sensitivity and awareness of all life forms on the planet. My art is a process. The physical act of drawing or painting taps into my creativity, and there are always new discoveries and surprises. I view this process as a gateway to my subconscious because it’s not analytical. It’s completely intuitive. I typically begin with an initial inspiration, such as an ancient bristlecone pine tree, or an exotic orchid, or even the structure of a single cell. Sometimes this initial inspiration is representational, and at other times it may become abstracted, or so stylized as to appear surreal. From that point on I trust in the creative process to lead me. I start every painting with a detailed drawing. The act of drawing is where most of my creativity happens. It’s like a stream-of-conscious where each new element leads to another, and the connections between them evolve – sometimes with surprising results!

Darrow--Synergy-IV
Darrow--SynergyII
Darrow--Eclipse-I

marjoriedarrow.com
instagram.com/marjoriedarrowart
facebook.com/MarjorieDarrowArt

Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Limited Color Palette, Lyrical, Mysticism, Nature, Painterly, Psychological

Genres: Abstract Surrealism

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