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Realistic Paintings By Linnea Strid

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These realistic paintings are by Linnea Strid who is a painter who lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

Solo exhibitions:

2013. “A Quiet Place” (w/ Stephanie Buer) Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2012. “Washed Up And Left Behind” Galleri Diana, Uppsala, Sweden
2012. Forsbacka Bruk, Sandviken, Sweden
2012. Gästrik Konst, Sädesmagasinet in Gysinge, Sweden
2011. “As it falls over you” (w/ Nathan DeYoung) Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2010. Polishuset, Uppsala, Sweden
2009. Café Kingsgården, Lindesberg, Sweden
2009. “What The Water Gave Me” Galleri Kocks, Stockholm, Sweden
2009. Björk and Berries, Högbo, Sweden
2009. “Klotter” Kulturkiosken, Gävle, Sweden
2008. Kafé 44, Stockholm, Sweden
2008. “Brott Mot Icke-mänskligheten” Galleri Lucy Ford, Stockholm, Sweden
2007. “Insidan Utåt” Kulturkiosken, Gävle, Sweden
2003. Club Nórdico, Fuengirola, Spain

Group exhibitions:

2013. “God Konst”, Galleri Movitz, Stockholm, Sweden, coming up Dec 21 – Jan 2

2013. Konstdraget, Förvaltningshuset, Gävle, Sweden
2013. “LAX/PHL”, group show curated by Thinkspace, Gallery 309, Philadelphia
2013. Asia Hotel Art Fair at Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong
2013. “LAX/HKG” Group show curated by the Thinkspace Gallery, at Above Second Gallery, Hong Kong
2012. Pangeaseed Touring Art Show, US West Coast
2012. “Sur-Realism”, Arcadia Gallery, New York
2012. “Wild At Heart: Keep Wildlife in the Wild”, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2012. “Picks of the Harvest”, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2012. “Femme Fatale”, Cella Gallery, Los Angeles
2012. Affordable Art Fair at LA Live in Downtown. Los Angeles
2011. “Impetus” an exhibition curated by Thinkspace, The Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona, Tucson
2011. “Literal Eyes”London Miles Gallery, London
2011. “LAX / PDX” a curated exhibition from Thinkspace at Together Gallery, Portland
2010. “The New Realism” Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2010. “5 Year Anniversary Group Show”, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2010. “Love Conquers All: Art For Equality “, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2010. “The Next Generation – a New Chapter in Contemporary Art”, London Miles Gallery, London
2010. Art Walk Culver City, Los Angeles
2010. “Vision”, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2010. “LA 3010″ WWA Gallery, Los Angeles
2010. “Give Me Space to Think” Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2010. “Fresh” Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles
2010. Klubb Selma at Orange, Uppsala, Sweden
2009. Gustaf Engström Galleri, Uppsala, Sweden
2009. “In Process”, Carlson Tower Gallery of North Park University, Chicago
2009. Galleri Panorama Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2007. “Cute/Execute”, Galleri Art Lab, Stockholm, Sweden
2007. “En Annorlunda Verklighet”, Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
2003. Museo de Historia, Fuengirola, Spain
2003. Casa del Ayuntamiento, Los Boliches, Spain
2002. Area de la Juventud, Fuengirola, Spain
2002. El Colegio Sueco, Fuengirola, Spain
2001. Euromarket, Mijas, Spain
2001. AHN (Asociación Hispano Nórdico), Fuengriola, Spain
2000. Euromarket, Mijas, Spain
2000. AHN (Asociación Hispano Nórdico), Fuengirola, Spain

http://www.linneastrid.se/

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Realistic Paintings By Jorge Santos

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Inner Circle

80 x 80 inches, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2013

Maitre D’

66 x 80 inches, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012

Born in 1959, Jorge Santos is of Portuguese descent. His childhood was spent in Luanda, Angola before his family fled to Lisbon, Portugal in order to escape a violent political agenda. As Portugal sunk into its own revolution, Santos relocated to the United States in 1982. Through out these years, the artist consistently honed his draftsmanship as a form of escape from life’s unrest. Particularly struck by an Odd Nerdrum show at Forum Gallery, NY in the 90s, Santos began to experiment with and use paint thereafter.

Jorge Santos paintings are a profound display of picture making for the sheer purposes of formulating an all but transparent narrative via highly technical draftsmanship and paint handling. As a self-taught artist, the evolutionary process of his work is often subject to reconfiguration, repositioning, and refinement until the grand conclusion is met. Narrative is of such importance that even compositional concerns may be subordinate to the inclusion of a necessary motif in the storyline.

Night Fishing

67 x 106 inches, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012

Mail Order Bride

60 x 68 inches, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2010

Dropping Notes

48 x 60 inches, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2013

http://www.jorgesantos.com

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Highly Detailed And Sexy Paintings By Brian M. Viveros

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Internationally celebrated artist Brian M. Viveros has an unmistakably arresting hand. His highly detailed paintings of defiant doe-eyed beauties summon a raw poetic of intractability. Beautiful and yet barbarous, they draw from the power of the feminine and its reconciliation of vulnerability, beauty, and power. His subjects are fighters and survivors, rendered immaculately, and just bloodied enough to remind us that they are formidable opponents not to be taken lightly. The artist’s hyperreal portraits deliver cult worthy heroines emerging triumphant from battle, complete with cigarettes anchored from parted lips, and tattoos and wounds to rival any soldier’s; they are steel tough victors rendered with something of the sublime. Viveros’ work elevates the iconography of the femme-fatale as a powerful emblem of strength and retaliation: insubordinate beauties undaunted by the unruliness of a messy fight.

A technical perfectionist, Brian Viveros’ oil, airbrush, acrylic, and ink paintings are highly saturated with pigment, luminosity, and depth, while the compositions are poignant and simple. The artist’s emphasis tends to be on focal points such as the eyes, lips, and skin, conveying the subtlety of minute expression and the power of an impaling gaze. The paintings feel cinematic, like haunting stills from a film, owing to their evocative suggestion of narrative and to the iconicity of their subjects. The artist’s creative cosmos is beautifully stylized, never derivative, and distinctly recognizable as his own.

Viveros’ recognition and exposure was catalyzed by his participation in a major group exhibition in Switzerland in 1997 entitled: The Art of Porn, in which he exhibited alongside celebrated artist and academy award winner H.R. Giger. Since then, Viveros’ work has been widely exhibited in North America and Europe, and showcased in numerous international art fairs. Most recently, Viveros’ exhibition War of the Roses was sold out as a solo presentation for Art Basel Miami through Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles.

Brian M. Viveros’ paintings have been published extensively in print. His work has been featured in books such as: Les Barany’s Carnivora: The Dark Art Of Automobiles, Harry Saylor and Carolyn Frisch’s Edgy Cute: From Neo-Pop to Low Brow and Back Again, Matt Jordan’s Weirdo Noir, and Erotic Signature’s The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today – Vol. 1 and Vol. II. The artist has also been featured in the pages of Juxtapoz (no. 118), Secret Magazine, In the Flesh, Skin Two, Drawing Blood, Darks Art, Joia Magazine, Tattoo Extreme, XFUNS Magazine, Let’s Motive, Truce, Digital Temple, Riviera Magazine, Uce Magazine, Ego Magazine, Real Detroit Weekly, .ISM Quarterly, Tattoo Society, Dark Art’s Parlour Magazine, Revolution Art, Iniciativa Colectiva, Fetish Magazine, and was recently featured on an episode of the TV show ‘LA Ink’ (when artist Nikko Hurtado tattooed one of Viveros’ paintings onto a client).

http://brianmviveros.com/