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Artist Crush: Austin Power

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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Artist Crush: Cendrine Rovini

November 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments

At the risk of sounding like a tween at a Justin Bieber concert, I am freaking out right now! I am overwhelmed by the richness and beauty of Cendrine Rovini‘s work and the following is just a tiny sampling of her body of work. Many pieces are available for sale on etsy.

In my current body of works I’m obsessed with delicacy and lightness. I would like to create some drawings slowly disappearing from the spectator’s eyes… The use of graphite and colored pencil makes possible a certain lightness of texture and the creation of some details that claims my obsession with the multiple. The silence of the white or creamy surfaces of paper or cloth makes more patent the subtle rustling of metamorphosis that takes places surreptitiously in my image.

Artist Crush: Sarah Williamson

October 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Sarah Williamson is a Los Angeles-based artist who has shown at Black Maria Gallery. Her watercolors are both poignant and humble and at times quite humorous. My favorite is the man with his dog but then again I have a soft spot for dachshunds.

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