these are incredible. i’ve been looking at them a lot since they were posted. i guess i was wondering what everyone else was thinking about them, but it seems pretty quiet in here…so, thought i’d just give a big thumbs up.
there is an incredible amount of tension between the specificity of the rendering and the exactness of the shapes. a lot of positive/negative - negative/positive trickery going on.
you know the sensation of looking at a transparent drawing of a cube and how you can fool your eyes/brain into flip-flopping the near and the far edge of the cube in space? paintings with this amount of tension always make me think of that type of strange inversion-play. not sure exactly why.
i think this guy is really good. also, he’s got that funny dandyism and aesthetic going on but not so much in the way that we see a lot of currently. here it feels like it has a more to do with someone like Courbet
I think they are pretty great as well. The Courbet connection hadn’t occurred to me. I guess my hesitation to comment before came from the fact that they are very hard to experience in terms of surface and touch in digital form. That remoteness, passionate coolness is very intriguing.
Definitely someone whose work I’ll be following in the future.
Posted a comment that seems to have disappeared into the ether…
But I think these are pretty fantastic, and the large scale, as evidenced on the flickr shots of his opening, seems really important to the work.
In the missing post, I mentioned my earlier hesitation to comment, feeling that surface would be really important for these pictures, but very difficult to experience in digital repro form.
That said, I’m looking forward to seeing them in the flesh sometime.
I’m trying to read up about him, but the FPL keeps filtering (blocking) all the relevant links. Why is the Austin Chronicle not suitable for children? Why is his website not openable as a website? Sigh, eyes roll.
Not that it will help demystify the Seth Alverson, but he is listed as a contributor on YoungRepublic.org
and you can get some views on his Art Palace artist page
There’s a blurb about him in a group show and a review on Glasstire.
These are amazing and very weird.
these are incredible. i’ve been looking at them a lot since they were posted. i guess i was wondering what everyone else was thinking about them, but it seems pretty quiet in here…so, thought i’d just give a big thumbs up.
there is an incredible amount of tension between the specificity of the rendering and the exactness of the shapes. a lot of positive/negative - negative/positive trickery going on.
you know the sensation of looking at a transparent drawing of a cube and how you can fool your eyes/brain into flip-flopping the near and the far edge of the cube in space? paintings with this amount of tension always make me think of that type of strange inversion-play. not sure exactly why.
i think this guy is really good. also, he’s got that funny dandyism and aesthetic going on but not so much in the way that we see a lot of currently. here it feels like it has a more to do with someone like Courbet
grant wood + emo + small brushes = eye tasty.
i especially like the wallpaper…
I think they are pretty great as well. The Courbet connection hadn’t occurred to me. I guess my hesitation to comment before came from the fact that they are very hard to experience in terms of surface and touch in digital form. That remoteness, passionate coolness is very intriguing.
Definitely someone whose work I’ll be following in the future.
Posted a comment that seems to have disappeared into the ether…
But I think these are pretty fantastic, and the large scale, as evidenced on the flickr shots of his opening, seems really important to the work.
In the missing post, I mentioned my earlier hesitation to comment, feeling that surface would be really important for these pictures, but very difficult to experience in digital repro form.
That said, I’m looking forward to seeing them in the flesh sometime.
I’m trying to read up about him, but the FPL keeps filtering (blocking) all the relevant links. Why is the Austin Chronicle not suitable for children? Why is his website not openable as a website? Sigh, eyes roll.
His website is not working, but I’m getting to the reviews at the Chronicle…not a whole lot of info there though.
Not that it will help demystify the Seth Alverson, but he is listed as a contributor on YoungRepublic.org
and you can get some views on his Art Palace artist page
There’s a blurb about him in a group show and a review on Glasstire.