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Artist: Adam Mysock
Artist: Walter Darby Bannard
An Exciting Unknown
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Sasquatch (Harry from Harry and the Hendersons, Universal Pictures, 1987)
Developing almost simultaneously with my appreciation of mannequins, I fell in love with what...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
An Attempt at Morality
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve, 1507
Akin to the historical narratives we’re fed in an attempt to steer us away from a life of lies, the narrative of Adam, Eve, and the serpent ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Constant, Attractive Artifice
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A mannequin
For some reason, mannequins seemed to be everywhere when I was growing up. Maybe it was growing up during the heyday of malls in America. Nevertheless, with their clearl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
A Brush With Justice
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652
Sooner or later, we get caught lying. For most of us, it’s incredibly early in life, and the falsehood detected is innocuou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
Our Legacy of Engagement
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: “La Lutte” by Émile Friant, 1889
Framed: 10h x 8.50w in
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve been particularly struck by the staggering number of unintende...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
The Earliest Portrait of Everything
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: the European Space Agency's Planck Observatory's imaging of Cosmic Microwave Background
Framed: 4h x 7.75w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 198...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun (Last Judgment)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Hans Memling's "The Last Judgment" triptych (c. late 1460's), Bambi's mother from Disney's "Bambi" (1942)
acrylic on panel, mounted on a J.P. Sau...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Going
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: a NASA image of the Whirlpool Galaxy
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
I Saw a Headline Once
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ARTWORK STATEMENT
After : Norman Rockwell’s "The Gossips", 1948
Framed: 10h x 8.50w in
It seems like we’re invited to contemplate the nature of our political climate every time we ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
China Psalm
Located in Kensington, MD
Walter Darby Bannard (American 1934-2016)
"China Psalm" 1975
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed & Dated Verso
70" x 43" inches framed
69" x 42" inches unframed
A leading figure in the devel...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Foreseeing Nothing
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
(after: Henry Fawcett; Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett by Ford Made Brown, 1872)
Framed: 8.50h x 10w in
On November 7th, 2016, it seemed as if everyone knew how the U.S. presidential...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
An Attempt at Imperfect Optimism (No. 1)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 4h x 4.50w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Red Sky in the Morning (Day Two)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: "Twlight in the Wilderness" by Frederic Edwin Church, 1860
Framed: 3.50h x 3.50w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Idle Hands
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: "And In His Eyes I Saw Death" by Ejnar Nielsen, 1897
Framed: 10h x 8.50w in
Being discontented means being left with choices. We can either accept a current status quo or ch...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
An Attempt at Imperfect Optimism (No. 3)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 4h x 4.50w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
An Attempt at Imperfect Optimism (No. 2)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 4h x 4.50w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Red Sky in the Morning (Day Four)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: "Twlight in the Wilderness" by Frederic Edwin Church, 1860
Framed: 3.50h x 3.50w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Red Sky in the Morning (Day Three)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: "Twlight in the Wilderness" by Frederic Edwin Church, 1860
Framed: 3.50h x 3.50w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Coming
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: a NASA image of the Andromeda Galaxy
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Red Sky in the Morning (Day One)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: "Twlight in the Wilderness" by Frederic Edwin Church, 1860
Framed: 3.50h x 3.50w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an element...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
The Last Six, Under Six, Murdered by a Gun in the Sixth
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
installation
acrylic on copper, mounted in wall
"Late last year, a local news station was reporting on the shooting death of a 7-month old child. As part of their reporting, the a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
And, lo, three men stood by Abraham
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title:
"And, lo, three men stood by Abraham: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground"
After: “Punishment of Korah” by Domenico Beccafumi (1537) and “The Banjo Player” by William Sydney Mount (1855)
Framed: 6.90h x 8.10w in
This image really began with my knowledge of the American artist of the source painting – William Sydney Mount. While Mount is acknowledged as one of the first painters to present African- Americans in a positive light, his beliefs about slavery were at odds with Abraham Lincoln’s. In response, he seems to have wrestled with the good and evil aspects of his beliefs. The imagery of Moses on his knees (from Domenico Beccafumi’s Punishment of Korah, Dathan and Abiram) comes from a similar narrative about a struggle between good and evil. In it, Moses’ divine connections were challenged by tribal leaders and as a result the earth split open and swallowed the malicious contenders, leaving only the good. William Sydney Mount’s painting of The Banjo Player serves as a stage that hints at both something positive (the musical reference) and something negative (figures emerging on their knees, as if being released from captivity.) The musical poster...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Better Alone than in Bad Company
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Joseph Shuster’s Action Comics #1 Cover (1938) and #19 Burning Flesh from Wally Wood’s, Bob Powell’s, and Norm Saunders’ Mars Attacks trading cards (1962)
Framed: 9h x 9w in
Continuing the exploration of Superman’s role as extraterrestrial anomaly – an alien who’s also a friend, I spent time considering how important one’s actions (on a singular occasion, in sum, alone, in collaboration with others, etc.) are in determining overall “goodness” or social value.
In literally his first exposure to any reader, on the cover of Action Comics #1, Superman is shown smashing a large car against a rock, while three well-dressed men run away in fear. Taken by itself the image presents a deranged, super-strong vandal. It’s only upon reading the full narrative that we understand Superman’s action to be part of a rescue mission and the men to be gangster villains.
When we allow Superman to be considered as an individual, responsible for his own actions, and over a series of events, rather than one incident, we find our hero. But when I offer Superman another alien (this one up to no good), and deny any exposure to a fuller understanding of circumstance, it’s much more difficult to separate Superman’s destructive actions from those of his new companion. Better Alone Than in Bad Company...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
The Consequences of Empty Threats
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Friedrich Edwin Church's "The Iceberg" (1875) and Henry Raeburn's "The Archers" (1789-1790)
Framed: 11h x 13.25w in
While considering our great power over, and responsibility...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Real and Imagined
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Building (1903), and #17 Beast and the Beauty from Wally Wood’s, Bob Powell’s, and Norm Saunders’ Mars Attacks trading cards...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
O'er the Ramparts We Watched
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 10.50h x 7.50w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
The Bombs Bursting in Air
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 12h x 17.50w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
If He Wasn't Handsome, Would He Still be Super?
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Joseph Shuster’s Superman #1 Cover (1939) and #17 Beast and the Beauty from Wally Wood’s, Bob Powell’s, and Norm Saunders’ Mars Attacks trading cards...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Where the Snow in Snow Globes Came From
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, MA, after a Thunderstorm - The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole
Framed: 6h x 7.80w in
Looking back at the work of Thomas Cole and his contemp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
And the Rocket's Red Glare
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 12h x 8.60w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
What's Left
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: John James Audubon's print of the Florida Cormorant
With minimal effort, it’s easy to find a great deal of research about how ecosystems and habitats are being dramatically a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Madison Fats, Oils and Sweets
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 20h x 18w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
And Abraham looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title:
And Abraham looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Waiting for the Pool to Open
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: William Bradford's "Scene in the Arctic" (c. 1880) and Peder Severin Kroyer "Boys Bathing at Skagen, Summer Evening" (1899)
Framed 11h x 13.75w in
Living in a house which sits about 5 feet below sea level, I find myself thinking about rising sea levels a lot. There’s a great possibility that the home where my wife and I have begun our family will be underwater centuries from now. Conversely, swimming has always been a passion of mine – my wife and I even met on a swim team early in our teenage years. In trying to find the silver lining to global warming drowning our home, I can look for solace in the fact that there’ll be more places to go swimming when the seas overtake our coastal areas.
There’s an innocence in Kroyer’s boys – and the concept of children swimming...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Outward
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: “Exploring Parties in the Vicinity of the Ground Station” by Chesley Bonestell (c. 1956)
In Outward, I chose to return to the allure of the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 11h x 16w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Washington's Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Jefferson's Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dried Beans, Eggs, and Nuts
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Franklin's Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
George Washington
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title: George Washington, George Washington Carver, the Spruce Goose, and a Victorious Tiger Woods
Framed: 10h x 10w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
In Search of What Once Was
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Sanford Gifford's "the Desert at Assouan, Egypt" (1869) and Ilya Repin's "Procession in the Province of Kursk" (1881-1883)
Framed 7h x 14w in
I began this piece with the inte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
The Twilight's Last Gleaming
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 15h x 10.50w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
The Star-Spangled Banner and Babe the Blue Ox
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 11h x 16w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Davie Crockett, Pecos Bill, the Bull Moose Party, and a Man Walking into Frame
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 10h x 10w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Having Found the Lowest Threshold (St. George Slaying the Dragon)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: Nicolas Poussin’s Massacre of the Innocents, from 1629
Framed: 8.50h x 9.50w in
In the summer of 2013, the murder of Trayvon Martin dominated weeks of news cycles. As if we n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title:
"So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran"
After: “Basket of Clams” by Winslow Homer (1873) and “Moses Striking the Rock” by Abraham Bloemaert (1596)
Framed: 12h x 10.50w in
This piece began with two stories about striking a rock to get water – that of Moses from Exodus and that of the S.S. Minnow of Gilligan’s Island...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Abraham Lincoln, Paul Bunyon, the Gold Rush of 1849 and a Man Who Doesn't Care
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 10h x 10w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Moses and the Burning Bush” by Sébastien Bourdon (1642-45) and “Evening at Medfield, Massachusetts” by George Inness (1875)
Framed: 12h x 18.50w in
This image begins with two allus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
So Close I Can Almost Touch It
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: Jacob Jordaens’s Odysseus in the Cave of Polyphemus, from 1635 and a NASA photograph of "Mount Sharp" on Mars
Framed: 7.50h x 10.50w in
As mentioned above, we have technology...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
What Your Children Will Look Like According to Gordon Moore
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: Charles Hayter's Miniature Portrait of Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (after Beechy) (1811) and an illustration by Ed Valigursky.
Framed: 10h x 8.50w in
In the late 1960s Intel cofounder Gordon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
By the Dawn's Early Light
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 11h x 8w in
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Adams' Fruit
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Black and White Westerns No. 1
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Acrylic, Paper
Inward
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: “Fueling a Rocket for the Firing of an Artificial Satellite” by Chesley Bonestell (c. 1956)
This second Bonestell illustration affords me an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Forward
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: “Getting Ready to Leave” by Chesley Bonestell (c. 1954)
With Forward, I wanted an image with the clearest spatial hierarchy – back, middle, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Backward
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: : “The Landing Craft Raised into Take-off Position” by Chesley Bonestell (c. 1956)
In the 1940s and 50s, we didn’t have the necessary techn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
And the LORD said unto Abram...
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Full title: "And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward'"
After: “In the Fields” by Eastman Johnson (1880) and “The Sacrifice of Moses” by Massimo Stanzione (1629)
Framed: 12h x 17.50w in
This piece is about redirection. While inserting Lincoln into Eastman Johnson’s In the Fields, it became quite apparent that emulating Johnson’s paint handling would make it quite difficult to capture a likeness. I needed to clarify Lincoln’s face in order to give him an identity. To overcome the obvious stylistic discrepancies, bizarre elements of Massimo Stanzione’s The Sacrifice of Moses were inserted to pull attention right, most specifically the pointing Moses. Baseball player Pat Burrell (of the 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
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