Inspired by a lifelong love of comics and graphic novels, the Houston - based artist's
fantastical images form semi-autobiographical narratives.
His fantastical images form a unique world: they are like modern variations of illustrated manuscripts, packed full with elements of Soviet and post-Soviet cultures.
Not exact matches
Shōhaku transformed more conventional representations of the dragon found in the traditional Japanese mythological figures of the Cloud and Dragon paintings into
fantastical images where the mythological being verged between hideous monster and an abstract anamorphic
form.
In tune with the previous performance works by the artist, «Hemings in Paris» is an attempt to activate public space,
image the
fantastical and anachronistic, and present narratives (mine along with hers) that facilitate the collapsing of the past and present both in content and
form.
Whether
images of mysterious illuminated disks floating in the sky or
fantastical landscapes — created by rephotographing, photocopying, and otherwise altering bits of found imagery — Wasow plays with the human propensity to invest
form with meaning, offering just enough detail to spur the imagination.
To enter the pictorial and psychic space of one of Patterson's
images is to tumble into a
fantastical realm in which distinctions between
form and symbol, surface and depth, and the sublime and the absurd are lovingly blurred.