tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1875853 2012-02-22T16:33:00-05:00 The ARTeur is an "art auteur". The Arteur blog showcases all artists - established and emerging - across all mediums. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0162fd0bed64970d 2012-02-22T16:33:00-05:00 2011-11-28T16:35:02-05:00

Doug Rickard's series, A New American Picture, depicts anonymous inner-city and suburban streets across the United States. In the tradition of street photographers such as Walker Evans and Stephen Shore, the images reflect the urban and rural decay of overlooked communities in contemporary life. The artist explores locations via Google Street View, the online archive of panoramic photographs that visually map America's streetscape. He carefully selects images and photographs the computer screen, complete with blurred faces and signage that characterize the source images and emphasize the anonymity and desolation of the subjects. Doug Rickard is currently featured in the New...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01539426ecd8970b 2012-02-13T11:02:00-05:00 2012-02-13T11:02:00-05:00

Since the early 1980s, George Condo has used traditional artistic methods and materials to depict unexpected, grotesque, and comic subjects. In The Butcher and His Wife, what appears at first glance to be a classical bronze sculpture of embracing figures is, in fact, a couple interrupted in the middle of a sexual encounter. Their startled expressions lend a comic sensibility which is immediately contradicted by the violence of the cleaver in the male figure’s head. Beyond a critique of art historical convention common to his contemporaries, Condo engages in a deeper exploration of the sexuality and violence, comedy and tragedy...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01630028c578970d 2012-02-06T10:28:00-05:00 2012-01-26T10:28:43-05:00

Stan Ragets could almost be considered a "new age" or metaphysical artist. That is because his work is mezmerizing and mysterious, using fractiles with almost a mathematical bent. Fractal artwork in the “fine art” sense is relatively unheard of at the current time, and Ragets' goal to eventually make it a household term. Of course, for those who enjoy Escher, Raget's work will resonate. He says, "Art is something that I've always enjoyed; not just the creative process, but also viewing the final results. I strive to create artwork that you can 'get lost in', pieces that can be viewed...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0168e61f6c12970c 2012-01-31T10:37:00-05:00 2012-01-26T10:37:58-05:00

Derrick Hickman is an artist whose paintings bridge the gap between typography and fine art. They possess a certain lyricism and grace but also engage the mind with recognizable messages. "My recent work builds upon the theme of myth vs. memory, which has been the focus of past paintings and sculptures. I have used the process of story telling to introduce the viewer to my own memory and its conflict with self perpetuated folklore, as it is related to my development as an artist. In these paintings, I have literally projected text onto the canvas in an enlarged diary form....

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01539426edd6970b 2012-01-17T11:02:00-05:00 2012-01-17T11:02:00-05:00

Lisa Yuskavage is best known as the creator of female figures whose outrageous proportions evoke Edgar Degas nudes posed by Hans Bellmer. Her polarizing work has been variously described as "perversely pledged to vulgarity," "discomfitingly kitschy," and "utterly sincere." Critics and curators have likened walking into a Yuskavage show to "falling into a candy-colored fever dream" and tell of emerging with the sensation of having eaten too much cake. "Painters have to create space for themselves," says Yuskavage, who has staked out her territory with pictures that pack a one-two punch of titillating, often-bizarre imagery and dazzling technical prowess. Whether...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0162fbdd7565970d 2012-01-09T17:52:00-05:00 2012-01-09T17:52:00-05:00

Working in oils on linen and aluminum panel, Chloe Early has developed a unique style that is simultaneously lush and raw. The romantic and the gritty meet in her paintings, which tease out a distinctively poetic worldview through the juxtaposition of extremes. At their core is a sensitivity to lyrical feelings and themes—love, beauty, innocence, softness—which collide with more worldly symbols of aggression and degradation, such as bullets, bombs, urban refuse, and ruins. Yet Early avoids any kind of resolution, or even overt narrative. Rather, she simply allows these opposing elements to float in space and intermix, creating a charged...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef014e8c46c411970d 2012-01-03T16:45:00-05:00 2012-01-03T16:45:00-05:00

Painter Dan Quintana is a Bosch for the 21st century, his immaculately rendered paintings depict a surreal limbo of dark characters engaged in nefarious activities. His colour palette and technique reflect the style of the old masters, but the tone is undeniably 21st century with the addition of cars and sex This video tells it all:

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0154368ebacc970c 2011-12-28T10:47:00-05:00 2011-12-28T10:47:00-05:00

Claudio Parentela is a mixed media artist whose work crosses from cartoon to low brow art. Born in Catanzaro, Italy where he lives and works, Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist free lance. Active since many years in the international underground scene, he has collaborated with many zines, magazines of contemporary art, literary publications and comics in Italy and in the world

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0154364c27de970c 2011-12-20T21:51:00-05:00 2011-10-23T17:44:57-04:00

Combining both wit and admiration, seriousness and flippancy, Guy Rusha takes the art historical idea of male artist painting women as his point of departure. In his painting and sculpture it seems that he explores elements of traditional European portraiture in an effort to more simply and clearly present Her. To follow, for instance, his application of paint from painting to painting - now thick and heavy, now almost rude in its casual sparseness - is to sense Rusha's attentiveness and curiosity for how an image comes from, and into, material, and the ways in which oil paint records the...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0154364c348a970c 2011-12-14T22:05:00-05:00 2011-10-23T17:38:45-04:00

Michael Borremans’ drawings, paintings, and films present an evocative combination of solemn-looking characters, unusual close-ups, and unsettling still lifes. There is a theatrical dimension to his works, which are at once highly staged and ambiguous, just as his complex and open-ended scenes lend themselves to conflicting moods—at once nostalgic, darkly comical, disturbing, and grotesque. His paintings display a concentrated dialogue with previous art historical epochs, yet their unconventional compositions and curious narratives defy expectations and lend them an indefinable yet universal character. Lone figures in pensive or semiconscious states are depicted squarely in the center of the compositions; while their...

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