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Ewa Juszkiewicz Creates Twisted Versions of Canonical Portraits

Polish painter Ewa Juszkiewicz subverts canonical portraiture by playing with viewers' expectations. Poised damsels that evoke Renaissance-era nobility stand with their hands clasped and their faces replaced by oyster mushrooms, cockroaches and shrubbery. It's as if in spite of all the pains these ladies have taken to appear proper and civilized, nature has reasserted its dominion. Juzkiewicz is specifically interested in portraits of women and uses her work to study the ways women have been presented over the course of European history.

Polish painter Ewa Juszkiewicz subverts canonical portraiture by playing with viewers’ expectations. Poised damsels that evoke Renaissance-era nobility stand with their hands clasped and their faces replaced by oyster mushrooms, cockroaches and shrubbery. It’s as if in spite of all the pains these ladies have taken to appear proper and civilized, nature has reasserted its dominion. Juszkiewicz is specifically interested in portraits of women and uses her work to study the ways women have been presented over the course of European history.

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Ewa Juszkiewicz, painting, Portraiture

painting, Sascha Braunig

November 20, 2014

Sascha Braunig's paintings nearly overwhelm the eyes with their barrage of contrasting colors. Their CMYK color palette gives her works a digital glow. Iridescent gradients shift from yellow to electric blue, hot pink to neon green. Geometric forms and patterns contour her figures' faces and bodies, their voluminous forms more akin to the images produced by 3D modeling software than rendered with a paintbrush. Braunig's paintings feature an Op Art aesthetic executed with realist techniques, resulting in an otherworldly portraiture style filled with optical illusions.

Rick Berry’s Expressive Paintings of Figures in Motion

painting, Rick Berry

April 13, 2015

Rick Berry paints figures that appear to be caught amid rapid, dance-like motions, which he captures with a flurry of brisk, gestural marks. What the viewer gets are not precise renderings of graceful limbs, but expressive images that convey their subjects' energy. Berry's style evokes Abstract Expressionism with its visceral textures, but, ultimately, he reigns in his wild paint strokes to create recognizable, human shapes. Though his paintings are figurative, however, they're not necessarily narrative. Throughout his body of work, one can see the evidence of his process, which seems to be at the forefront even when viewing the finished product.

Painter Patrick McGrath Muniz Explores Climate Change in ‘Credo’

oil painting, painting, Patrick McGrath Muniz

May 15, 2018

Patrick McGrath Muniz tracks issues like climate change through the iconography and mythology of several cultures over time. In the show "Credo" at La Luz De Jesus Gallery, the artist's recent work in this vein is collected.

Okuda: Full Color Chaos

murals, new contemporary art, okuda, painting, Pop Surrealism

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Ewa Juszkiewicz Creates Twisted Versions of Canonical Portraits

Sascha Braunig’s High Contrast Paintings Create Hypnotizing Visual Effects

Rick Berry’s Expressive Paintings of Figures in Motion

Painter Patrick McGrath Muniz Explores Climate Change in ‘Credo’

Okuda: Full Color Chaos

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