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Simon Birch
Meridian Green Don

2018

$18,500
£14,063.96
€16,417.26
CA$25,975.25
A$29,469.49
CHF 15,431.24
MX$363,574.63
NOK 191,344.23
SEK 183,079.72
DKK 122,457.34
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In this series of portraits, Birch materializes enigmatic, ectoplasmic figures in his psychologically charged canvases linking sympathies between external forces and interior emotion. These large-scale renderings of figures in motion - are torn between attraction and repulsion as they twist and tumble through space. Birch delves into allegorical states of the human condition through his painterly poetics of cleaved color blocks disrupted with loose, painterly, gestural strokes. Intent on the inward, only vestiges of the external linger with allusions to what Hamlet described as, “the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”
  • Creator:
    Simon Birch (1974, British)
  • Creation Year:
    2018
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
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  • Gallery Location:
    Santa Monica, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU47810639632

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