Ben Kelley, "Cupid and Psyche," 2012
James Rieck, "Black Belt" and "Cockblock," 2011
Having recently taken up archery, Ben suddenly seemed keen to repurpose this Cessna by shooting it with arrows! As such, this sculpture is the culmination of five separate actions: acquiring an aircraft (without a clue of what to do with it), storing it in the corner of his studio, suddenly feeling an urge to use it for target practice, reconstructing the plane inside this bank and recasting this scrapped object as an elegant sculpture…
Known for producing sexy paintings of headless figures, James’ paintings seem photo-realist at first glance, but one soon notices their figures’ roundedness and soft (to the touch) edge. Hardly flat like photo-realist paintings, these curvy, plumped-up, velvety figures seem to be today’s Botox-injected response to Alex Katz’s sleeker, stark characters from decades ago.
Known for producing sexy paintings of headless figures, James’ paintings seem photo-realist at first glance, but one soon notices their figures’ roundedness and soft (to the touch) edge. Hardly flat like photo-realist paintings, these curvy, plumped-up, velvety figures seem to be today’s Botox-injected response to Alex Katz’s sleeker, stark characters from decades ago.
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