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  • Victoria Reynolds

    Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 17:37 in oil, artists

    More raw meat! I don't know what it is that makes me like these paintings of gross slabs of meat. But I guess I have always been drawn to morbid and slightly disgusting things. Oil paintings by Victoria Reynolds, who will be at Hammer Museum in LA on...

  • Lucas Reiner

    Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 23:57 in oil, artists

    LA artist Lucas Reiner will be at the MOCA Pacific Design Center on March 14th, 3pm along with Fred Dewey for a reception/discussion/book signing for newly published Los Angeles Trees 2001-2008: Paintings, Drawings, Filmstills.The trees of Los Angele...

  • Annie Lapin

    Posted on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 21:33 in oil, artists, mixed media

    I saw two of Annie Lapins paintings at the LA25-Half life exhibit at LACE last year and I like her abstract (but not completely), heavy layered, oil and mixed media paintings where everything seems to be in motion.All images from Angles Gallery. ...

  • Kehinde Wiley

    Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 15:39 in oil, artists

    Los Angeles born New York transplant Kehinde Wiley paints the most amazing portraits in a style that is a fusion between classical and new. Black, modern hip hop men are reincarnated in poses inspired by classical portraits by Van Dyke, Hans Holbein ...

  • Cindy Wright

    Posted on Thursday January 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 in oil, artists

    Belgian artist Cindy Wright creates these amazing large scale oil paintings. Most of her work is at least over 45"X45" with some canvases stretching over 78". She has a thing for flesh, human as well as animal and she paints it in perfect photo reali...

  • Willy Wonka Cubism

    Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 13:00 in oil, artists, acrylic

    It's not surprising to find out that Ken Berman has a degree in architecture. His oil/acrylic/alkyd paintings sometimes looks like architectural blueprints and most often like complicated contraptions with hints to cubism and the industrial revolutio...

  • Pictor Dentata

    Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 19:11 in oil, artists

    I love weird subjects painted in a classic style.Behold Daniel Albrigo's brilliant oil paintings of dentures:...