New works by John Wentz continue to push realism beyond its contexts.
Growing up and even today one of my favorite paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is Gauguin’s enigmatic painting titled, without punctuation, D’où Venons Nous Que Sommes Nous Où Allons Nous—Where do we come from What are we Where are we going. He called the questions the “ever-present riddle” of mankind.
Today, artists explore the riddle assisted by the discoveries and theories of psychology, the sciences and cyber technology that makes searching and making connections easier.
John Wentz knows where he comes from and is exploring the what in the context of Jungian archetypes as he nudges “realist” painting beyond its historically rigid contexts. He began copying panels from Spider-Man and
Batman comics and ventured into a career in commercial art but changed course and received his BFA in painting at Academy of Art University, San Francisco. The traditional academic curriculum gave him a strong technical and aesthetic base. It’s a base from which artists have gone on into abstraction as well as a realism that is more than a rehash of the past, rather a vital mode of communication today.
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Modern Marketplace
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An Enchanting Evening
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Coming off his series that focused on San Francisco and Los Angeles freeway signs, artist Eric Nash’s sights are now set on New York. Now on view at George Billis Gallery's Manhattan location are seven of Nash's new oil paintings and two drawings that explore the signage of New York City freeways. Although Nash's work is tightly rendered, he doesn’t consider himself a photorealist, but rather someone who utilizes those techniques to express ideas.
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Those familiar with Geoffrey Johnson's populated by inky figures and trailing shadows that bleed into the wet streets, and architectural elements obscured to varying degrees by the misty atmosphere.
Bold Figures; Bold Color
For Brooklyn based painter J Louis, it’s all about balance, which can mean many different things in a composition, but for Louis, it’s about balancing his female figures among a unique landscape of color.
