Check out the undead (and maybe dead) creations of Jeff Christensen.
Many of his paintings have an “interdimensional” feel to them, as if his subjects are exploring strange worlds or navigating between them.
Category: surreal
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Andrew Ferez is responsible for two pieces I’ve loved for quite a while without knowing the artist. Aren’t these first two really spectacular?
His work reminds me a bit of Jacek Yerka with its fine details and blending of architecture, human invention and nature.
Many of his creations seem to contain a prominent fire element; a bit of burning chaos and/or illumination.
I’d like a a bumper sticker of this painting that says MY OTHER CAR IS A TALONED FISH SAXOPHONE WITH WHEELS.
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I was intrigued and rather delighted when I saw Jacob Gagnon’s tea and cupcake display…populated with miniature giraffes and ladders (of COURSE they need ladders! How would they reach the top teacups otherwise?).
In his portfolio we find all kinds of creatures strangely interacting with household items.
In fact, I can safely say I’ve never seen such a proliferation of wild animals and fine china.
And I adore the way he skews the scale of his subjects.
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Colette Calascione creates beautifully odd surreal fine art. Many of her subjects are, quite literally, two faced.
I think this is what’s inside my chest cavity too.
I adore this brightly colored reworking of the original Max Ernst illustration.
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Paul Roustan is an extremely gifted body painter. Can you tell there is a woman in the center of this moth?
Watch her emerge:
I recommend looking at his whole body of work (pun intended) here.
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Alicia Martin Lopez drew me in with this ambiguous, fascinating mural (stare at it all you want…you’ll never really know what it is):
And I was pleased to discover a cadre of surreal, grotesque creatures on her website…
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Grab a look at Hugh Kretchmer’s photography…
Some of these pieces are highly editorial, but all deliver a nice measure of surrealism and/or trompe l’oeil effects.
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Csilla Savos plays with surreal intersections of shape, anatomy and other elements of the natural world.
Strange and dream-like…mildly unsettling…
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In the world of “abstract” art, it takes a lot to grab my attention fully. Andrezej Masianis’s tapestries certainly do the trick.
Shapes…just on the threshold of conscious recognition…come alive from the tangled backgrounds.
These paintings delightfully rope the brain into half-emerged stories.
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