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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

Mara Light, painting, Realism

February 16, 2016

"All people- and nature itself- have distinctive layers," says Pittsburgh based painter Mara Light. Teetering between a classical sense of realism and abstraction, her textured oil paintings aim to explore the layers of ourselves that we show and the others we hide within. Her subject matter is almost always women, whose emotions permeate the surface of her work's repetitive layering, scrapes, tears and drips of turpentine over certain areas, a process she enjoys for its unpredictable nature. For her current series, titled "Beneath the Surface," she sees her artistic explorations as more than a way to add visual interest to her work, but also as a metaphor for her personal experiences.

Erin McCarty’s Gouache, Nature-Inspired Paintings

Erin McCarty, gouache, painting

December 30, 2016

Erin McCarty, an Alaska-born, Arizona-based painter, creates large-scale gouache works that mix influences like the natural world, the human body, and the abstract ideas and emotions surrounding our place in the world. After graduating from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland in 2010, the artist worked in the Oregan area before returning to her home state of Alaska, where she recharged and created a new body of work inspired by the region. These days, she lives in Tucson, where she's inspired by a new terrain and ecosystem.

The Recent Illusionary Work of Leon Keer

Leon Keer, painting

January 24, 2020

With Leon Keer's recent output, the painter continues to craft illusionary gallery work, murals, and installations that play with depth and nostalgia. A recent piece for Thinkspace's anniversary show, titled "Addicted" (below), also saw the artist toying with lenticular painting. On his Instagram page, Keer has also been sharing his anamorphic rooms, in which he moves in and out of the scenes to show their actual planes.

Interview: Syd Bee Discusses Her Latest Dreamlike Figurative Paintings for “In My Bones”

Antler Gallery, oil painting, Portraiture, surrealism, Syd Bee

June 24, 2015

Syd Bee is a Seattle-based painter that creates figurative paintings that often appear to exist in a dreamlike state. Working in oils, the artist employs a technique of creating a pastel-hued glow around her subjects. Bee enjoys the way the soft outer edges of the paintings feel optically; which enhances the mysterious effect produced by her oil paintings. Check out our interview with the artist after the jump, as she discusses her new work.

Tomas Clayton Mixes Various Time Periods in his Stylized Portraits

Mara Light’s Female Subjects Emote Through Textured Layers

Erin McCarty’s Gouache, Nature-Inspired Paintings

The Recent Illusionary Work of Leon Keer

Interview: Syd Bee Discusses Her Latest Dreamlike Figurative Paintings for “In My Bones”

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