A few weeks ago when I went home for the weekend, I visited one of my favorite artist's (Vladimir Kush) galleries in Laguna Beach. I discovered his art about a year ago and have been somewhat obsessed with it ever since. He is a surrealist painter and sculptor, and most of his works consist of presenting the real world in a fantastical and imaginative way. Unfortunately the pictures are not on my camera and I don't think that I can retrieve them on time, but these are some of the paintings I saw while there.
I am most attracted to his work because of the bright colors he uses as well as the way he manipulates everyday objects and makes viewers see them in a different way. For example, the leaf piece below entitled Construction Upstairs, seems so simple at first even in terms of color choice and the amount of negative space. However, the way he uses the leaf, portraying it as a ladder to heaven (which is revealed from the title) transforms it into something much more complicated and beautiful. I attempted to imitate Kush's style on my sequence and narrative project when reinterpreting "Humpty Dumpty." I admire how he blends the real and unreal worlds in a way that still sends a message of universality.
So far i have only visited his gallery in Laguna Beach but I know that he has one in Hawaii as well. If I am lucky enough to go there, then I will be sure to document more of his work. Although the space was small in this gallery, it held a lot of paintings. In the very back there was a smaller attached room that was showing a video of all of Kush's work so far. We sat and watched for awhile until the gallery was closing. It was basically a slide show but the fading transitions mimicking the style of his art. Hopefully when I go back home soon for the summer, I will have the chance to spend more time in the gallery. I am taking a drawing class next year so I plan on utilizing some of Kush's techniques within my own art.
A few weeks ago when I went home for the weekend, I visited one of my favorite artist's (Vladimir Kush) galleries in Laguna Beach. I discovered his art about a year ago and have been somewhat obsessed with it ever since. He is a surrealist painter and sculptor, and most of his works consist of presenting the real world in a fantastical and imaginative way. Unfortunately the pictures are not on my camera and I don't think that I can retrieve them on time, but these are some of the paintings I saw while there.
I am most attracted to his work because of the bright colors he uses as well as the way he manipulates everyday objects and makes viewers see them in a different way. For example, the leaf piece below entitled Construction Upstairs, seems so simple at first even in terms of color choice and the amount of negative space. However, the way he uses the leaf, portraying it as a ladder to heaven (which is revealed from the title) transforms it into something much more complicated and beautiful. I attempted to imitate Kush's style on my sequence and narrative project when reinterpreting "Humpty Dumpty." I admire how he blends the real and unreal worlds in a way that still sends a message of universality. 
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