Marissa Oosterlee

Contemporary Hyper Realist Acrylic Painting: The Forever Search

2020

Old Friends 2022 Acrylic, Color pencil, on Washi (Japanese handmade paper) over wood panel. Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Masaya Nakayama creates work by wrapping wooden panels with Washi (Japanese handmade paper) followed by “drawing” with a special painter's tape. After covering the panels with a mix of acrylic, colored pencil, and gold leaf, Nakayama pulls up the tape to reveal his motif. The artist’s current body of work details his life in the USA as an immigrant on the path to citizenship. He centers on iconic images with themes representing what the artist equates with American culture through the lens of an artist of color...

This piece belongs to the first series of 6 large coins created by Natasha Lelenco in 2019, starting from the concept of the "face" and incorporating a floral background inspired by ...

A donkey, symbol of the Democratic Party Democrats promote themselves as consistently ethical. So, when they inevitably get caught lying, the fault i...

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 ...

From John William Waterhouse’s A Mermaid, 1900 We have a wonderful capacity to impose fictions on others in order to make them desirable. We o...

A portrait of Lance Armstrong We tend to exercise differing levels of tolerance for different liars. Some people get called out immediately, while oth...