/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2311874

You have to see his work in person. His paintings are both smooth and rough, jagged and gentle. He takes an ugly surface and makes it beautiful. That process is in and of itself a beautiful metaphor, which is where his term "technical narrativity" comes into play. The actions taken by the painter tell as much a story as the symbols the painter is arranging on the canvas. It's a more introspective way of telling a story. His paintings are more than "well executed" or "extremely competent", both vague thinly-veiled criticisms that are a bit cliche and kind of miss the point when it comes to talking about realist contemporary painters.

If you can't see his work in NY or philly, there are a few high-resolution pictures I've found online that give you a glimpse of the scale of his paintings and the texture of their surfaces.

This is one that I think is interesting because it reminds me of Vuillard's textures. His paintings begin very abstract, as textures, and slowly become refine into more finished pieces with smoother surfaces.