Author: megandyck
*Antony Williams, the coolness of being near another warm person
figurationLike Wyeth and Freud, William’s compositional arrangements of detached figures delivered with subtly exaggerated marks make our encounters with his subjects highly intimate, yet austere.
*Susanne Kühn, dreaming in colour
figurationStunning imagery. I really love the contrast between the architecture and the body, combined with the focused expressions worn by the figures. Kühn’s pictorial repertoire deserves the attention that her fellow German figurative contemporaries have received!
*Oscar Mellor, concrete softness
figurationMellor’s dreamlike imagery is sensually uncanny
*John Baldessari, fractured figuration
figurationI’ve always been intrigued by Baldessari’s pop-like aesthetic, mingled with bleakly romantic figurative gestures.
*Ridley Howard, banal love and other queries
figurationI love how charged Howard’s images are while so simplistic
*Matthew Cerletty, Ambivalent Beauty
figurationIsolation, longing, indifference..Cerletty’s imagery convicts us of our own loneliness
*James Rielly, two-gaze
figurationI am so curious about artists such as Rielly, with whom I share an affinity for double-renderings of people.
*Self-referential Images
Observations*Berenice Abbott, Beside you..
figuration(Photograph of Jean Cocteau)