John Murray

Stereotypes, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2020

mysterious abstracted figure against rich painterly ground :: Painting :: Post Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready t...

oil, pencil, ink, charcoal, pastel, thread on canvas Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang...

Ironic commemorative painting for the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower Landing depicting the white man's invasion of native lands. :: Painting :: Post ...

I had a hard time titling this because it just came from nowhere (the best place). Today I remembered a wonderful little film that I saw about Rousseau called "Always on Sunday". It was made by Ken...

STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...

Original Keith Davis painting on view at Hal Bromm Gallery for THE QUEER SHOW PART I.

STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist focuses on characters that are built from a combination of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features, as well as the appropriation of elements from comics and toys from his childhood. On the one hand, these characters distort reality to venture into an environment of subcultures and urbanism created by the spontaneous intuition of his strokes and the appropriation of the contemporary iconography. On the other hand, they move within the realm of fantasy. In particular, the animals paired with their human characters evoke associations with fairy tales or comics. They are reminiscent of the world of theatre, in which fantasy and poetry but also comedy often serve as catalysts for the creation of critical meaning. With his works, Brines often questions the interplay of good and evil against the background of the worldwide socio-political climate. Yet Brines does not interpret his themes as ‘black and white.’ They are complex and nonlinear, with charming disruptions, quite serious and yet full of humor. Brines is personally influenced by his mother and art historically influenced by Latin American figurative art, the German Neoexpressionism, the Italian Transavantgarde, and the COBRA group. His works oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Brines holds a degree in Fine Art from the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón...

Painted primarily in oil and encaustic with a cement trowel on wood panel and canvas, his work has been exhibited and collected across the US. In the midst of creating these mobile r...