When I started trying to promote my own artwork online I kept coming across other people's art that amazed or compelled me in one way or another. This blog has been a way for me to practice thinking and writing about art, as well as learning more about my peers and all the incredible art that is being made out there.

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Friday, February 3, 2012

Gabriel Neale

"Figure in White Landscape"  oil on canvas  140cm x 220cm  2007


 

Untitled  oil on canvas  140cm x 150cm  2011

"Run Scared"  oil on canvas  220cm x 140cm  2008

"Haunted Man"

"Cafe"  acrylic  140cm x 220cm  2005
Gabriel Neale is a British artist born in 1978. And that's about all the biographical detail I can muster. Some folks just keep a low profile on the internet. But you can see his work, which has evolved dramatically over the last seven years or so. It began as graphic illustration-like work depicting bleak interpretations of daily existence in modern England, with stylized figures echoing the work of Egon Schiele . It has since morphed into a hyper-horror show of the human body in which sex, birth and death are all equated as a grotesque parade of bodily transformation. His work is not for the squeamish. And yet, that graphics look still still lingers, giving the work a certain degree of playfulness that attracts the viewer even while the subject matter repels. The result is compelling.
Most of his work online can be found at: www.numasters.com
A few additional pieces can be seen  at: www.saatchionline.com

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