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Geoffrey Gersten

Gersten is a self-taught surrealist artist based out of Tempe, Arizona. He started painting when he was 21 years old and paints his works using oil paints mixed with natural resin. His artwork is quirky featuring humanoid machines resembling images of robots from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

“Surrealism Meets Tech” is one way to describe Gersten’s paintings; “alternate retro-universe homages to Las Vegas and the classic robots” is another. Gertsen’s robots have a naive “mechanicality;” a real innocents like the toy and cartoon characters they resemble. They are people and essentially children.

It wasn’t until 2007 that he sat before a sheet of paper and began to arrange meaningful strokes upon it. “I became so hooked, like nothing I had ever experienced,” said Gersten. “This was it! This was really, really it.” And he knew from the start that he was going to be a surrealist.

Marc Burchkardt

Marc Burckhardt (born 1962) is an American fine artist  and illustrator. Burckhardt’s work juxtaposes historical genres and symbolism with contemporary themes. The artist uses a mix of both oil and acrylic paints in a modern variation of the Old Masters techniques of monochromatic underpainting and color glazing, often executing his work on wood panels. Burckhardt is additionally known for combining some paintings with pressed metal facades, historically known as rizas or oklads, forming elaborate patterns in the metal to create a jacket-like patterned covering.
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Marc Burckhardt (nacido en 1962) es un pintor e ilustrador Americano. Su trabajo juxtapone género histótico y simbolismo con temas contemporáneos. El artísta utiliza una mezcla de óleo y pintura acrílica, a menudo ejecuta su trabajo sobre paneles de madera. Burckhardt también es conocido por insertar en sus pinturas  metales prensados, conocido históricamente como rizas o oklads, formando elaborados diseños en el metal para crear así como un envoltorio.

Brian Despain

Desde muy temprana edad, Brian no tenía ninguna intención de apartar su atención de su mundo de fantasías recreando imágenes en su cabeza mientras pasaban las nubes por encíma de su cabeza a la vez que inventaba historias imposibles con su ejército de dinosaurios, criaturas diabólicas, naves espaciales y otros objetos improbisados que cobraban vida en su interior.Sin embargo muchos años tuvieron que ser desperdiciados atendiendo sus obligaciones escolares con asignaturas como  química, matemáticas e inglés entre otras, pero arte fué la única asignatura en la que Brian podía sobresalir. El Instituto le brindó la oportunidad de profundizar y encontrar su propio estilo tomando clases y practicando duro antes de conseguir graduarse con un Grado Superior. Bien documentado y dedicado Brian fué capaz de abrirse camino y dejar su  marca en el mundo visual. 

Brian ha tenido oportunidad de hacer todo tipo de trabajos, desde diseñador gráfico, a escultor 3D, editor fotográfico, hasta ilustrador. El se considera afortunado  de haber podido  estudiar, aprender, crecer  y poder ganarse la vida y disfrutar haciendo lo que más le gusta . 

From early on there really wasn’t any doubt that a career in art was the direction I was headed. I was hardly interested in anything else and a lion’s share of my childhood was spent with my head in the clouds, doodling a veritable army of dinosaurs, space ships, demons and imps. Even much of my later schooling was spent failing other useful but mundane subjects like chemistry, math and english while art was the one area that I excelled at. College was hardly different, I spent six years finding myself and taking a lot of classes before graduating with a BFA. Documented and dedicated to my chosen profession I set out to make my veritable mark on the world.

Since then I’ve held all sorts of jobs, from graphic designer to 3D modeler, photo-retoucher to illustrator. I’ve studied, learned, grown and spent a lot of time as a professional artist making a decent living doing art, but in all that time and through all those jobs I’ve learned one all important thing. It was the time I spent, like the kid at the kitchen table, creating art for no other reason than sheer wonder of it all, that I was happiest. No matter the piece or the end result it’s the art that we do for ourselves that wholly reflects us as people. It is that art which is purest, it is that art which holds the most magic, it is that art which connects on the deepest level and it is that art that this site is all about.

So, on that note, take a look around, see what I have to offer and hopefully something in here pops, something connects you to that little boy, drawing spaceships and dinosaurs, and leaves you with a sense of wonder all your own.

Exiles

IRG- Discovery

Haunting-IRG

Octavi Intente

The  traditional pillars of our Society such as The Capital, Religion, Politicians, Media, Publicity, Sex ...) are put into question through the paintings of Octavi Intente. He approaches criticism to these principal values, portraying  our surrealistic society using humorist eye catching images which can easily be interpreted. The glamour and stupidity of Upper class, the Middle class who struggles with sensitivity, technology and the out of date folcklore of our ancestral civilization, this is all put into the same pot of sarcasm and allegorical consideration. 

Yuppies wearing  toilet´heads, palsatic surgery, libertarian culture of bad behavior, vicious  sex and  silicon, sculls skating over infernal roads, superstition, voracious and greedy people devouring their meals...

Los poderes fácticos de ayer y de hoy (el capital, la religión, la publicidad…) son puestos en solfa en las pinturas deOctavi Intente. Con un lenguaje plástico hermanado con el cómic y el surrealismo a partes iguales, fagocita mediante gags alegóricos usos y costumbres. La pompa de las clases pudientes, el espíritu gregario, el folclore, la demagogia disfrazada de humanismo, el servilismo a los cánones de belleza, los dogmas de la adolescencia… son vistos con lentes de aumento y filtros de colores satinados.

Yuppies con urinarios por cabeza brindando mientras se dan palmaditas en la espalda, pechos siliconados yéndose de verbena, una calavera skater patinando por carreteras infernales… Enfrenta distintos tipos sociales con su propio reflejo en un espejo deformante que reduce a caricatura toda una batería de manías, vicios, supersticiones, apetitos… La comida prolifera por doquier, quizás para subrayar la gula o voracidad irrefrenable que impulsa los comportamiento. 

The Leppa Cools Club

Thursday´s Paella

Pig´s Shoe

Survey cams 

Subway

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