Alpay Efe’s moody oil paintings offer vulnerable figures, both obscured by abstract elements and their own postures. The artist is self-described as a figurative painter “influenced by contemporary zeitgeist and pop culture.”
“Alpay Efe moves with his pictures between careful compositions, artificial scenes, work in progress and snapshots,” a Von Fraunberg Art Gallery statement says, via translation. “The studio. Its intimate reproduction of people and objects unites modern zeitgeist with traditional technique and synthesizes characteristics of the past with a view to the present. The images, which are figurative in their nature, take abstract forms through luminous colors and artificial light and have an almost mystic attraction.”
The German-born artist attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Dusseldorf, Germany. Recent shows have taken place at Gallery kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Von Fraunberg Gallery, and Abend Gallery in Denver.
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In Taylor Schultek’s riveting oil paintings, an urban structure is as much a character as his human subjects. The connection between humanity and environment is often at play, with the art of graffiti often in progress. The artist's own history in graffiti and graphic design seem to converge in building believable backdrops.