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In this new series of artworks, thickly-textured brushmarks offer a dreamlike sense of space. Meanwhile, these modestly-sized oil paintings depict cartoonish motifs that become totemic through the artist's use of layered oil paint and a restrained color palette.
In this seemingly simple image, two stars rise above a horizon and get reflected as three stars in a stark yin-yang composition.
Through his masterful use of impasto and improvisation, Alex Lemke riffs off of art history’s rich landscape and still-life traditions to create his psychedelic paintings. While working, Lemke’s mind takes left turns as he gets seduced by visual nonsequiturs. Heavily influenced by the physicality of post-impressionism, Lemke’s sculptural painting materials ultimately define his idiosyncratic compositions while offering his scenes a fantastical and otherworldly flourish.
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③ Artist:
Through his masterful use of impasto and improvisation, Alex Lemke riffs off of art history’s rich landscape and still-life traditions to create his psychedelic paintings. While working, Lemke’s mind takes left turns as he gets seduced by visual nonsequiturs. Heavily influenced by the physicality of Post-Impressionism, Lemke’s sculptural painting materials ultimately define his idiosyncratic compositions while offering his scenes a fantastical and otherworldly flourish.
Alex Lemke was born in Fullerton, CA, in 1984 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He earned his BFA from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and his MFA from California State University in Los Angeles, CA.
Lemke will mount a solo exhibition of his work at Gattopardo in April 2023.
He has previously shown his work at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Reyes Projects, Detroit, MI; Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA.
In this new series of artworks, thickly-textured brushmarks offer a dreamlike sense of space. Meanwhile, these modestly-sized oil paintings depict cartoonish motifs that become totemic through the artist's use of layered oil paint and a restrained color palette.More
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