Pooch (formerly Michael Pucciarelli)
Raised on a diet of Walt Disney World , Ray Harryhausen films, H. P. Lovecraft novels, Comics, and Florida day-tripper traps, Pooch paints images that assume to abide in a affected afterlife. Early on, Pooch was apparent to artists and illustrators, such as Frank Frazetta, MC Escher, Dali, Bosch and HR Giger.
A self- accomplished artist, Pooch owes abundant of his painting abilities to over ten years of circadian tattooing and drawing. His art is a beheld cocktail mix of Far East mysteries, the abracadabra of European painting with a attempt of boom culture, annoyed and stirred, and served up in a gift tiki skull.
Working in altered alternation allows Pooch the abandon to analyze assorted cultural symbols, but aswell keeps him aggressive to dig added into those corresponding subjects. His beforehand works are done in oil, absolute architectural elements and sinuously carved bronze like abstracts in changeless display. Newer works are in acrylic and reflect his acknowledgment to Disney World and Florida affair parks, with surreal carnival ride “facades”(a absorption of the apocryphal fronts of avant-garde society?) busy with allegorical abstracts of afterlife from Tibetan rituals to the Mexican Day of the Dead Festival.
Pooch’s paintings are advised to authority the viewer’s attention, which is absolutely a claiming in today’s TV, blur and computer age. Holding the old masters in top regard, he has a able account for painters of the Flemish age such as Bosch and Van Eyk, and avant-garde artists such as Todd Schorr, Joe Coleman, Mark Ryden and Robe.
Paul Torres
Paul Torres' art embodies a affluent acuteness and is abstemious with amusing annotation and a soulful estimation of accustomed life. Born in Chile, his absorption in art began at age 3 afterwards accepting alien to banana books. He started cartoon anon afterwards and his ancestor assassin a clandestine art babysitter for him. By the age 7 he was already enrolled in an art accord school. Paul aswell became afflicted aboriginal on by Hollywood films and mostly enjoys abhorrence films and Westerns.
At the age of 9, Paul came to the United States for a one-year break and fell in adulation with the art ability here. After casual to the United States assuredly at age 19, he served in the U.S. Army, abounding Otis Parsons Art Institute for two years, and again in 1998 he accustomed his Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has had the advantage to abstraction with actual arresting and arch artists such as Daniel Greene, Albert Handell, Norwegian artisan Jan Saether at Bruchion School in Los Angeles, and Joseph Mendez at the Businessman's Art Institute in Los Angeles. He formed for several years in the action and cine industry while continuing to acrylic for arcade shows and clandestine collections.
He works with a array of mediums alignment from oil to acrylic, ink and dry mediums, preferring oil. Although he feels actual adequate alive from activity and models, he aswell uses his acuteness accumulated with alive from activity to accompany the plan into a added claimed akin and aiming for abracadabra accuracy abiding in the attitude of the old masters with undertones of avant-garde influences. Paul has been alleged a abstracted artisan and a body artist.
Harold Golen Gallery Temporary Space is amid at 314 North West 24th St. in the Wynwood Art District, Miami, Florida 33127. For added advice log on to www.haroldgolengallery.com, or alarm 305.989.3359.
Press inquiries and angel requests amuse alarm Donnamarie Baptiste 305.904.8393, dbaptiste720@aol.com.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment