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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Flesh and Bone
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Tho in Chair 55 X 43 inches
Next month, Arcadia Gallery in New York City will be hosting a significant exhibition of Colorado artist Daniel Sprick's haunting and psychologically charged paintings. The works in this show, which are often disturbing, are technically beautiful examples of contemporary representational art, and although the artist makes no claims of imbuing his images with hidden meanings, one can not help but delve deeply into his art in attempts to decipher their mysterious symbology. Sprick's recurring themes of death and decay are offset in this particular show by the presence of several figural works, a subject that is not as common in his paintings because the artist was previously less inclined to ask a model to sit eight hours a day for the several months it takes to complete one of his panels (From the demonstration Sprick gave for American Painting Video Magazine, it is supposed that the artist now applies a quicker method for his figure works than he does for his still lifes, enabling him to continue working from life without overly fatiguing his models). The twenty-five paintings in the exhibition will be on view at Arcadia Gallery from March 19th until April 10th. Please visit the show to enjoy this talented artist's aesthetically unique works of art.
The highly contemplative Sprick is a wonderful subject for interview, and his
captivating words can be extremely inspirational.
Carcass No. 2 16 X 20 inches
Bird in Landscape 12 X 9 inches
Noelle 12 X 9 inches
Carcass 26 X 18 inches
Plum Blossoms 24 X 24 inches
Trompe l'oeil Bird 28 X 22 inches
Snow Bird 24 X 16 inches
Amaryllis 20 X 20 inches
Arcadia Gallery is located at 51 Greene Street, between Grand and Broome in SoHo. It is open from 10 AM to 6 PM Monday through Friday, and from 11 AM until 6 PM weekends.
To see more of Sprick's paintings, visit the artist's website.
Excellent blog, Matthew Innis, a long time wanted to congratulate the work of research, are excellent posts. I invite you to visit instantly my blog and other artists here in Brazil. We have great artists like Alexander Reider a great landscaper, painter of figures Takiguthi, Boner painter of still life etc..
God, these are gorgeous. I only discovered Daniel Sprick about 6 months ago and I'm such a huge fan now. His figures and people are so darn real, and they are very obviously paintings too. It's like they were breathed onto the canvas in one fell swoop…though I know this is not how he paints. He's a master and seems like a nice person too from the video.
5 comments:
Love his paintings.
Amazing figurative work! Thanks for sharing.
Long live Daniel Sprick!
Excellent blog, Matthew Innis, a long time wanted to congratulate the work of research, are excellent posts. I invite you to visit instantly my blog and other artists here in Brazil. We have great artists like Alexander Reider a great landscaper, painter of figures Takiguthi, Boner painter of still life etc..
God, these are gorgeous. I only discovered Daniel Sprick about 6 months ago and I'm such a huge fan now. His figures and people are so darn real, and they are very obviously paintings too. It's like they were breathed onto the canvas in one fell swoop…though I know this is not how he paints. He's a master and seems like a nice person too from the video.
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