Some Paintings That Caught My Eye

April 3, 2008 2:47 PM

Some paintings by Abraham Brewster. (not this one) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Current work on this page.
posted by wittgenstein (11 comments total)

I could be the only one, but I think they could use a little more gravity, sagging flesh, ants & crutches.
Then again, I might be the only one who had blotter for lunch.
posted by isopraxis at 3:07 PM on April 3

Interesting. No faces.
posted by Dave Faris at 3:43 PM on April 3

It's like every cover of Twilight Zone Magazine collected in one man's art.
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:03 PM on April 3

Hmmm...Photoshop effects recreated in oils?
posted by Thorzdad at 4:25 PM on April 3

The older work seems to be photoshopped nudes, competently painted using classical techniques, but the result isn't terribly exciting. He does seem to be heading in a more interesting direction with the new work- possibly he's become more comfortable with digital image manipulation.

Or he could be parallelling Louis Wain but with naked people instead of kitties.
posted by pernoctalian at 4:35 PM on April 3

#1 has a face.
posted by DU at 4:39 PM on April 3

And #8.
posted by DU at 4:39 PM on April 3

Nobody told him that you go to Yale for graduate school, not undergrad. Oh well.
posted by R. Mutt at 5:44 PM on April 3

and by the way: NSFW
posted by Doohickie at 7:11 PM on April 3

I call foul, wittgenstein - what was it about these nude-meets-MS 'pipes' screensaver paintings that caught your eye? They are not bad, but they don't speak to me.
posted by AppleSeed at 4:02 AM on April 4

I don't really know, appleseed. I picked up the latest issue of New American Paintings and there they were. I kind of hoped someone here might know more about him than I did. The magazine says very little about him.
posted by wittgenstein at 6:03 AM on April 4