I feel really bad about ganking these photos from the My Modern Met site — they have a ton more. These are just fantastic paintings I felt I would like people to know about.
Actually I’ve been going off lately about how it’s such and “indie” thing to use woodland creatures as masks and stuff in art these days. There are so many examples of antlers in hipster art, but hey, I’m going to let it slide for this artist. Nate Frizzell is very talented as you can see and I don’t feel that this work is cliche. It’s very interesting actually.
The atmosphere in these is excellent and he did a good job of keeping true to the colors of the photographs from which I’m assuming they are referencing. Still I can’t believe these are fucking oil paintings. Great werk.
Although photorealistic, that touch of surrealism pervades these images and all of Joshua Hagler’s images. It is a rare glimpse into the collective psyche of networked humans. Very cool stuff.
This basically line art evoked a flow that leads you straight to the maddening heights of an hallucinatory revelation. Of when it dawns on you that the dark overlords always have the upper hand. And us, in our little spaces claim our cities in vein.
I don’t even know what to say about these. Super hip, supercool. Definitely drawing from the anime school, but not trapped in that. This stuff is rad and original.
I am always impressed by watercolor work. Or anyone that can do this level of color design and composition without a computer. Very cool and impressive.
This work is both painterly and glitchy at the same time. When you make this kind of stuff you can’t do anything but let it come out and be aware and conscious the entire time. It is not something you can really plan.
A quote:
“I love having bruises that I can touch throughout the day to instigate memory. Sometimes the bruise is a broken lip; sometimes exhaustion; sometimes the way light falls on skin. Painting is touching the bruise.” – Joshua Bronaugh
There is so much cool art out there by so many unknown underground snarling sparkling artists, I keep this thing as a sort of inspiration diary of all the amazing creative noise going on off the mainstream. Visit my artfolio at http://rishisatsangi.com.
