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Tomas Clayton Mixes Various Time Periods in his Stylized Portraits

Tomas Clayton takes us back 100 years with his nostalgic portraits set in the World War I era. Re-imagining documentary photographs and artifacts from this time period, Clayton creates enigmatic, highly stylized images that zero in on various characters — soldiers, acrobats, actors, and average men and women alike. Influenced by the aesthetics of the 1970s, elements of this period get muddled with his early 20th century imagery, as well. As a result, his oil on masonite works at times become dislodged from a specific time and place, inviting viewers to create narratives of their own.

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painting, Portraiture, Thomas Clayton

Lakormis, Merve Moroc, painting

July 31, 2014

Turkish artist Merve Morkoç aka Lakormis mocks our predilection for beauty with portraits that toy with our instincts and desires. Thin, young, model-like characters with the types of faces and bodies that line the pages of fashion magazines are her primary subjects. But Morkoç alters the women's appearances with disturbing, fantasy disfigurations that make them the stuff of nightmares. Initial attraction quickly becomes repulsion. Morkoç waves the illusion of beauty before the viewer's face and rips it away like a veil, revealing the strange, Frankenstein-esque details she has added to her characters.

Preview: Kyle Stewart’s “Between Worlds” at Parlor Gallery

Between Worlds, Kyle Stewart, painting, Parlor Gallery

September 11, 2014

Despite what we may sometimes think, our memories are extremely faulty, open to influence from new information, and seen through the lens of our current emotions. This is the concept used by Kyle Stewart in his latest body of work, which explores the change in his memories of rural life after moving to Toronto. His solo show "Between Worlds" debuts at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, New Jersey on September 13.

Rebecca Guay’s Dreamlike Paintings Explore Sensuality

painting, Rebecca Guay

December 15, 2014

Rebecca Guay is an artist whose dreamlike watercolor paintings invite viewers to languish in their sensual imagery. Ornamented with gold leaf, her female protagonists luxuriate on lofty clouds and in cool lagoons. The characters look like goddesses unfettered by mortal woes, at ease in their nudity. Guay's style of rendering figures with elongated faces and limbs evokes the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the 19th century, though her flat style gives her work a more contemporary look reminiscent of Japanese illustration. Take a look at some of her latest works below.

Maja Egli’s Collages of Women Mix Handmade and Digital Techniques

Collage, maja egli, Portraiture

March 8, 2016

Collage artist Maja Egli creates surreal portraits by manipulating various images of women to work together as complex unities. Her work can be read both as a feminist statement and as a larger comment on humanity: on one level, she suggests that women are complex beings (a quality that is often denied to them in much of mainstream art), while on the other, Egli’s collages imply that we as human beings are composed of disparate and assorted influences. Most of her figures are incomplete, lacking some fullness of form; the few full figures that we do get are faceless.

Tomas Clayton Mixes Various Time Periods in his Stylized Portraits

Merve Morkoç’s Disturbing Paintings Turn Beauty Into Gore

Preview: Kyle Stewart’s “Between Worlds” at Parlor Gallery

Rebecca Guay’s Dreamlike Paintings Explore Sensuality

Maja Egli’s Collages of Women Mix Handmade and Digital Techniques

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