Austin Power has six new portraits up on Art Hound’s sister site, Buy Some Damn Art. Austin is an incredibly thoughtful person and in typical fashion he put a great deal of thought into selecting his subjects.
“All of these portraits are of Artists & Designers that I personally know and admire. I wanted to make a show in the spirit of your work here on BSDA and Art Hound… I wanted to share that love and respect with artists and designers in my life. So rarely are my viewers allowed to access my subject at the same time as my painting. I think that this platform allows a special opportunity to connect the work with its origin and inspiration.”
Read about Austin’s subjects here.
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January 20th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Watercolor portraits by Austin Power. Power graduated from Parsons in 2008 and lives in NYC. His paintings are mysterious and magnetic and his artist statements, below, are some of the best I’ve read in a while.
I am interested in showing the difficulty and discomfort in fully understanding a person. I leave my subjects incomplete to highlight their limitations. As well as my own inability to see the subject beyond the influence of myself.
When I paint someone else, I paint what I know about them. I paint you plus myself, because that is my truth about identity. If I paint you hollow, but with volume, it is not because I think you are empty. It is instead that I think you are full of things I may never know about you. I paint incompleteness because I live incompleteness. I can never know for sure what happens when I’m not around. The purest limitation is time. I can only be responsible for the time that I spend with you. – Austin Power via phillips Art expert.
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