Thursday 31 May 2012

Alyssa Monks


American traditional painter Alyssa Monks' oil paintings are on one hand abstract as we view her wet bodies and faces through the abstraction of glass and water and hyper real on the other. She captures very personal moments in intimate spaces that allows the viewer to share this captured moment in time in an almost voyeuristic manner.

"Using filters such as glass, vinyl, water, and steam, I distort the body in shallow painted spaces. These filters allow for large areas of abstract design - islands of color with activated surfaces - while bits of the human form peak through. In a contemporary take on the traditional bathing women, my subjects are pushing against the glass “window”, distorting their own body, aware of and commanding the proverbial male gaze. Thick paint strokes in delicate color relationships are pushed and pulled to imitate glass, steam, water and flesh from a distance. However, up close, the delicious physical properties of oil paint are apparent. Thus sustaining the moment when abstract paint strokes become something else." ~ Alyssa Monks.

PS.  my apologies for the delay in posting recently, I have been flat out at work... meh!!













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Monday 21 May 2012

Handiedan


Handiedan's collage work is beautifully detailed and painstakingly put together, layer after sumptuous layer. She reuses antique posters, sheet music, post cards, currency, wood, metal etc to create visually stunning pin-up style pieces that speak of nostalgia with a delicious modern twist. Handiedan subverts the classic pinup style female subjects with hand drawn tattoos, which reveal the individual rather than just the sexual object.  Amazing!!

Handiedan is now also creating stunning digital collages, check out her gallery for a full collection of her work.

"Handiedan's collage work feeds on the tainted history of pin-up girl posters, using torn, aged surfaces to subvert sexiness. At first glance, the images have a nostalgic feeling, fueled by their ornate details and seemingly straightforward compositions, but a closer look quickly reveals their brutality." http://www.handiedan.com/handiedan_main_about.html














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