Alison M Brady

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Simultaneously intriguing, disturbing yet strangely absorbing. In the artist's own words:

"I strive to create dichotomies between the sensual and the horrific, the beautiful and the destructive"

Go to artist's website.
Link via Artist A Day.
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Don Gummer

"Falling Water Over Broadacre," Oil on wood. 2006 - 52" x 84" x 10"

A juxtaposition of disparate architectural plans in a manner which seems to compress space-time continuum - somehow making an oblique reference to how memory works.

See also see essays on the artist's own web-page.

Via review in Sculpture.
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Robert Burden

"Mattel's Battle Cat (Masters of the Universe, 1982)", Oil on Canvas, 2006, 48" x 102"


"Toy Biz' Captain America (Marvel Superheroes, 1990)", Oil on Canvas, 2008, 33 x 101"

An interesting sensibility that is, perhaps, inevitably and profoundly influenced by popular culture. The transformation in scale of the figurines lends a sense of monumentality, albeit a tentative and fragile one, as with all attempts to recapture the recollection of childhood memories.

Burden's other series of flags, with made-up icons and symbols, continues this twin allusion to grandeur and artificiality.


Flag #1, Polyester, 2006, 30" x 48"



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Link via Underwire.
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Tomas Rivas

Deatil, "Detalles de la Caida (after Leon Guinain)", 2007


Detail, "Guimalda, despues de Pierre Esquie" - wallpaper, peeling and drawing

A nice tension and ambiguity arising from the resultant fragments of classical decorative motifs created using rudimentary methods akin to graffiti mark-making.

Via review in Sculpture.
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