Hans Van Meeuwen

48A315

2015

Artist Commentary: Hide and seek. Kids like to hide, but one cannot always fully hide oneself Keywords: representational, fantasy, surreal, humor, imagination

Artist Commentary: I lived in Brooklyn for a long time, the big city. The world of bricks and concrete. And yet, there was "nature". A Redtail Hawk appeared once on our fire escape....

Artist Commentary: Books often appear in my work. Books are those containers of wisdom, of knowledge, of culture Words used to describe the piece: representational, books, humor, s...

About the piece: Sometimes, it just happens. Reminiscing about techniques used in the past on larger works like 'Get My Irish Up' and 'Fire Water.' Words that describe this piece:w...

Whether obscured by the smoky nightclub lighting or enlivened by the strong color of the Mardi Gras dancers, David Remfry’s life-size watercolors evoke a kaleidoscope of movement. M...

Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the artist Peter Marks (1935 -2010) Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A lifetime New Yorker, Marks graduated from the Hig...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell

Unsigned as per usual Enamel paint and ink on tracing paper Provenance: Estate of the Artist Peter Marks (1935 -2010) Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935....