Lisa Shimko

Ballast Fox Blue Sky Flag

2023

Mike Egan’s We Want Skulls is a striking acrylic painting on wood that blends folk art influences with themes of death, devotion, and the afterlife. Known for his bold, graphic style...

Mike Egan’s Hunting Ghosts on a Lion is a bold, folk-art-inspired acrylic painting on wood that combines themes of mortality, protection, and the supernatural. A skeletal figure, rendered in Egan’s signature black-and-white style, rides atop a regal golden lion, exuding an air of both power and mystery. The lion’s face, adorned with intricate patterns and deep red eyes, evokes a spiritual guardian guiding the skeleton on its ghostly hunt. The crimson red background, dotted with floating skulls and delicate floral motifs, reinforces the painting’s balance between life and death. Above the rider, pale blue ghostly forms float across the scene, emphasizing the painting’s supernatural...

We Were At Your Funeral is a vivid exploration of mortality, memory, and celebration. At the center, a single skeleton lies within a bold, coffin-shaped frame, its stark white form contrasting against the dark leaf motifs surrounding it. Encircling this central figure, four smaller skeletons...

Award-winning artist Jorge Yances reflects the Latin literary tradition of Magical realism with his ability to blend fantasy and reality in his artwork. Yances was born in Cartagena...

Allison McIntyre (b. 1999 West Virginia) pulls from animal imagery and digital aesthetics to respond to contemporary human-animal relations, wrestling with issues such as the climate...

Steven Gandhi - Journey's-2 - 24 x 24 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas, 2019 Free shipment in a roll form all over the world. Style : This series of works are reflection of ...

David Ackerson (b. 1950, American) Title: "Big Tex & His Three Egrets" Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 40 x 30 in. Markings: Signed LM "David Ackerson"...

Josh Talbott's (US based) "Who's Driving This Thing" is an acrylic painting that depicts yellow scorpion appendages with the body of a black car having been released from a glass jar. Bio: Josh Talbott grew up in suburban/rural Georgia in the southern US. His first work as a professional artist was in scenic painting and murals for various production companies. An attempt to deepen his well of possibilities led to New Orleans where as a street artist he sold works to people from all over the world before loosing everything in hurricane Katrina. With short stints in Santa Fe and then Los Angeles Josh arrived in the small coastal city of Los Osos, California where he lives and works today. His curiosity is voracious and interests are many, including scuba/ free diving, sailing, surfing, gardening, geology, rock hounding, rationality, AI, history, and philosophy. In his studio there is always an audiobook on, and outside of the studio there are all manner of activities making there way into his work. He has many private collectors scattered across the globe and murals in San Francisco. ARTIST STATEMENT We live in a time of extreme and accelerated change, growing complexity, and specialization. At every stage in our human trajectory from primitive beginnings crawling out of the sea to the present gauntlet of challenges, our thinking tools and their uses are central to the story of what it means to be human. My work is informed by a fascination with thinking tools and the effects of programming and environment through the different phases of life and our capacity for storytelling. My practice consists of constructing small-scale still life scenarios of toys and other artifacts of human development, then creating photorealistic acrylic paintings of these scenes. The work juxtaposes the familiar and playful with a contemporary, complex, adult world. While I am interested in the science of the mind, and what it means to be a human, my work seldom features the human form, focusing instead on the objects and items that are frequently left behind. As such, the subject of the painting becomes the viewer him or herself because their own humanity is ultimately what is revealed. My work honors toys as thinking tools for small people and the scenes depicted explore the ways in which the culture of our formative years leaves a lasting mark and continues to shape our storytelling. The plastic artifacts of my formative years carry memories of simultaneous confusion and wonder at the world around me. These are sensations and emotions still very much present in my life. What were your imaginings and dramas when you played with toys? Are you living them today? The multileveled still life paintings of familiar toys are bright and accessible and connect to the viewer's nostalgia and playfulness while provoking deeper insights into our current evolutionary, cultural, and technological moment. I place each little curio with care into meaningful relationship to their interlocutors and environment. The plastic dinosaurs often depicted are emblematic of childhood curiosities, of great wonder and speculation at past worlds and the depth of evolutionary time, and yet they are made of a material that illustrates our shortsightedness, a quintessential human quality that makes it quite possible that these plastic creations will outlast us all. I do my best to draw inspiration and resources from everywhere to build a visual language. In my divergent path I find the musical compositions and the story of composer, Philip Glass inspiring. The story of his devotion to his craft and his subsequent successes have encouraged and inspired me. I'm influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Sapolsky, and Yuval Noah Harari, the many books by Simon Winchester, Daniel Dennet, Robert Wright...