Painter Mike Davis has a new show of work opening at San Francisco's White Walls Gallery tomorrow. I first met Mike in the 1980s in Cincinnati when he was playing guitar for a New Wave band called Redmath. He later apprenticed at a local tattoo shop before moving to San Francisco, where he's now the proprietor of
Everlasting Tattoo. Twenty years ago, I thought Mike's artwork was incredible, and it's only gotten better. This latest work is somewhere between Mark Ryden and Hieronymous Bosch. Titled "Solo Flight," the exhibition runs until April 12. All of the pieces are also viewable online. Seen here, "In The Grand Scheme" (oil on masonite, 35" x 24".)
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Wait, that's not an illustration of the seven new sins in the style of Hieronymous Bosch? They're sitting around a table planning their infernal experiment with stem cells.
Based on the images I saw on the provided link, I'd say Davis's work is a remix of 16th-century Netherlandish sources, particularly Pieter Bruegel the Elder, not Bosch. Compare, for example, Davis's "The 7th Road"
www.whitewallssf.com/full_images/gal_artist_71_2281_Davis-8.jpg
with Bruegel's "Hunters in the Snow"
bilddatenbank.khm.at/viewArtefact?id=327
Bruegel, of course, was cribbing Bosch.
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Davis's The 7th Road
Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow
@NILLA (#2), Thanks for posting those references. I like Bruegel's work a lot!
do you like William Kurelek's work, David?
#6 reported - wow, it's spam from a Chinese oil painting distributor - I wonder if their stuff comes from Dafen.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/18/60-of-worlds-paintin.html
It's vengeance.
"Credibility is the foundation of our reputation"
I don't get it. BB must be blocked in China, how did they find it? Will the owner of Gold Apple get a beating in the backroom for advertising on a site known to publish news on Tibet?
Maybe someone should turn him in tho authorities?
Though, would that be accessory to murder?