Painting

May 5, 2011

Dream-Filled Fantasies by Rodrigo Luff

In 1987, El Salvador-native Rodrigo Luff emigrated to Sydney, Australia to escape the infamous civil war raging in El Salvador. Living in Australia ever since, he took up art as a past time and it is now his full time career. Luff's series Anima went on display April 15th at Phone Booth Gallery in Long Beach, California. It was his first stateside showing and it was welcomed to great reviews.

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January 30, 2011

Beautiful Watercolor Street Scenes by Grzegorz Wrbel

While we can all appreciate today's digital art movement, there's something about watercolor paintings that strikes a chord within us, making us yearn for simpler times. Poland-based artist Grzegorz Wrbel is an architectural designer and artist who paints both traditional and modern architecture in his stunning street scenes. Love how he paints shadows and light and how he brings into focus certain aspects of his painting by the use of hard lines while blurring others.

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July 13, 2010

Beautiful New Paintings by Melissa Haslam

Artist Melissa Haslam is back with a new set of paintings for an upcoming show starting this Saturday at LeBasse Projects in Culver City, California. Alongside the mixed media work of Morgan Slade, Haslam will debut Botanica. In this solo exhibition, Haslam continues to explore her fascination between the idea of femininity and nature. As flowers and roots take over the canvas, her figures react as reminders of our symbiotic relationship with nature.

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March 24, 2010

Distorted Urban Realism – Justin BUA (6 paintings)

New York native Justin BUA represents what urban art is all about. Raised in New York City's Upper West Side, between Manhattan and Brooklyn, BUA was fascinated by the raw, visceral street life of the city. He commends his immersion in the hip hop culture in its early days as one of the heavy influences in how he views the world.

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