Julia Randall | Lip Service
Lick Line #23
Negative space, interesting placement, and fine rendering, what else do we need? Oh yeah, lush, provocative subject matter. Julia Randall is delivering with this series of pieces.
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Looking through the Acid Glass
I don’t believe I know of anyone else who has romanticized Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.[2 Dimensionally that is] It’s some of the best work I can recall seeing from my generation. I cant help but be jealous of someone, just a year over my head, who has done work like this.-
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Michael Hussar
Morphine
Michael Hussar‘s Morphine piece speaks volumes to me. Wonderful contrast pops the ethereal figure to the viewer causing an immediate connection, while the figure 8 line movement leads your eye around the piece, ending with the red spiral that aids in your trance.
Casey Jex Smith
Hidden Treasure
The work of artist Casey Jex Smith has been stuck in the back of my head for a while now. I’ve seen artists try similar work and fail. Casey’s work seems to sit on the fence for me. It’s like a beautiful sculpture about to collapse into a pile of hot glue. Maybe it’s this tension that wins me over in the end. The awkward pairing of geometric shapes and carefully rendered landscapes.
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Artwork of Kris Kuksi
The Recreation
Kris Kuksi has produced a body of work that showcases a wide range of talent in a variety of mediums; it possesses elements of brutality and beauty, utilizing classic styles in combination with current and socially conscious themes. The appeal of Kuksi’s work is the raw, honest quality with which he treats his subjects, which are delicate in nature and are commonly pushed to the recesses of society and the human mind. It effectively links the darkness that is contained within the human psyche with a tangible representation of the nightmares it brings, but maintains an allure that is memorable and haunting.
The Deadly Sins
The Studies of Degas
Edgar Degas was a private man who scorned publicity, yet his sketches to achieve understanding made him stand out as one of the finest artists of the 19th century. Even though I’m not the biggest fan of his dancers, his studies replicate the same impressive techniques used by classical masters.
Bob Peak | Colors of the Past
Bob Peak is probably most famous for a string of popular movie posters he illustrated in the 80′s. He is responsible for three Star Trek posters, Superman, The Dark Crystal, and of course The Wiz, among others. But before his success as a poster artists and subsequent, slightly embarrassing, affair with the glare effect, Peak produced some wildly imaginative advertising work. He employed multiple focal points for his complex layouts and of course he used bold, saturated colors. Throughout the different styles he developed, I think his use of color was the most consistent element.
Thomas Peak, Bob Peaks son, writes in to tell us about the new Book of his father’s work.
…There is a new hard cover coffee-table book on THE ART OF BOB PEAK that will be available this Fall 2011. There is a “PRE-RELEASE SPECIAL PRICE OFFER” for the Bob Peak Book. Log onto www.bobpeak.com for more information.
What he doesn’t mention is the previously unseen pieces that will be in the book! I can’t wait to see it.
The Overture
We’re here to remind ourselves (and anyone else) that art doesn’t have to be crude, poorly rendered, or abstruse. We seek the evocative and holy from the humble and menial. So with that in mind, let’s start with the humble stone and menial chisel as the holy and certainly evocative “Ecstacy of St.Theresa” by the great Bernini.
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