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I'm just here for the pretty pictures
I'm just here for the pretty pictures
Turneresque Paintings by Samantha Keely Smith
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“The artwork represents a striving to reconcile the inner world of instinct and emotions, with an external world that is both beautiful and hostile in its natural grandeur. It is an attempt to map the place where these worlds intersect. The paintings are an investigation of the struggle between a variety of human impulses: impulses that are as necessary as they are contradictory, and which therefore constantly undermine our psychic and social coherence even as they endow us with vitality, soul, and life.The translucent layers of paint, contrasting soft ethereal brushwork and harder edged sweeping gestures, echo this divergence and depict a timeless place that hovers between dream and reality. The work is painted and partially destroyed many times before completion, resulting in a complex surface that is informed by the limits of the materials themselves in conjunction with a response to the traces of the painting’s former incarnations.”
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In his series, The Good Badlands, photographer Guy Tal seeks to show us that though it is often hidden, and may only appear briefly, there is delicate and subtle beauty in abundance for any viewer with patience and desire.
Sous les pavés, la plage
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Fallen Dreamworlds of Aleksandr Kosteckij
Aleksandr Kosteckij is a Russian surrealist painter. His strangely all too familiar realms seem to effortlessly resolve the contradictory conditions of dream and reality…
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Ryan Coleman (American, b. 1975), Heaven & Earth, 2012, Oil on canvas, 42 x 48 in.
