Juan Arana

Elbows Up - black and white figurative hyperrealistic boxing boys painting

2017

Michael Azgour is an artist and educator whose work addresses the impact of digital imagery on contemporary culture. His paintings combine evocative, expressive representation with g...

Michael Azgour is an artist and educator whose work addresses the impact of digital imagery on contemporary culture. His paintings combine evocative, expressive representation with g...

Michael Azgour is an artist and educator whose work addresses the impact of digital imagery on contemporary culture. His paintings combine evocative, expressive representation with g...

Michael Azgour is an artist and educator whose work addresses the impact of digital imagery on contemporary culture. His paintings combine evocative, expressive representation with g...

Mixed-Media / Oil Painting / Illustration / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Human Figure / Chess / Comic Books / Video Games / Representations of Everyday Objects / Illustration / Interiors / Figurative Art / Outsider Art / Pop Art From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Chess with a Comic Collector" is an incredible figurative, pop surrealist piece made with oil and acrylic and a PLA plastic filament drawing affixed to wood panel. The 3D piece features a "a bearded and bespectacled young man, beer bottle close at hand, cut-outs of the Incredible Hulk...

Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery)

My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...

My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...