Beau White’s Creepy-Crawly New Oil Paintings

Just in time for Halloween, the new oil paintings of Beau White are as unsettling as they are absorbing. For this set, the Melbourne-based artist adds new layers to his work by integrating food and sweets alongside his gruesome faces. In a new group show at BeinArt Gallery in Australia, titled “Memento Mori, Memento Amare,” his latest work is collected. Isbael Peppard and Jonathan Guthmann also have pieces in the show.

The gallery says that though White began as an illustrator, his “true passion lay in the creation of his own strikingly vivid paintings. Nightmarish imagery, absurdism and the grotesque are common threads throughout Beauʼs work.”

The artist’s work has been seen in galleries in Melbourne, Los Angeles, New York City, and beyond, as he’s a member of the larger BeinArt Collective. He was last mentioned on HiFructose.com here. See more of that recent work below.

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Beau White, oil painting, surrealism

oil painting, painting, Reza Bahmani

January 29, 2020

Reza Bahmani's oil paintings, with each's distinctive texture and scale, carry a distinct intimacy. In his recent show at Saless Gallery an accompanying score that required the use of headphones further beckoned viewers to focus on the massive portraits.

Sanam Khatibi’s Gender Dialogues Blend Historical Approaches

figurative, oil painting, Sanam Khatibi

December 18, 2017

Iran-born, Brussels-based artist Sanam Khatibi crafts oil and pencil works that continue a Renaissance-era visual dialogue, yet exploring gender dynamics and dominance through her singular voice. Her figures are described as “ambiguous with their relationship to power, violence, sensuality and each other.”

Jennifer Nehrbass’s Oil Paintings Explore Various Personas

jennifer nehrbass, oil painting, Portraiture

June 2, 2014

Jennifer Nehrbass's artworks look like collages at a first glance, but the seemingly cut and pasted images of geological formations, abstract patterns and human characters are actually painted with oils. The artist fits many disparate images and influences into her work. Her narrative paintings plant the viewer alongside female protagonists (most of whom are Nehrbass herself) who are undergoing journeys — adventures through the rocky, American Southwestern terrain as well as journeys of self-discovery. Nehrbass says that she uses herself as a primary subject because her work is a critique of the established art historical and sartorial cannons. Influenced by Cindy Sherman and author Margaret Atwood, she plays with different identities and creates various personas through the elaborate staging of details. Each woman faces a different adventure and must find her own path.

Robyn Cumming Makes the Figure Her Canvas in Experimental Photographs

Female Empowerment, Photography, Robyn Cumming, surrealism

June 20, 2015

Toronto based photographer Robyn Cumming often uses the figure as her canvas, rather than main subject, in her experimental imagery. Her subjects' personalities come through in their poses and the unexpected elements that she mixes into the picture. In her "Lady Things" (2008) series, for example, she completely obscures their faces with things like flowering shrubs, birds, and smoke. While simultaneously unsettling and seductive, there is a compelling mystery in the obscurity of Cumming's work. It leaves the viewer to reconsider how we collect information about each other visually and use that to define a person's character.

Beau White’s Creepy-Crawly New Oil Paintings

The Oil Paintings of Reza Bahmani

Sanam Khatibi’s Gender Dialogues Blend Historical Approaches

Jennifer Nehrbass’s Oil Paintings Explore Various Personas

Robyn Cumming Makes the Figure Her Canvas in Experimental Photographs

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