Kashima Echo

01.21.12

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Tags: animals, distorted bodies, doll-like, dollflesh, exposed anatomy, femininity, flora, flowers, illustrations, pastel, visceral

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Lori Earley

05.01.11

Lori Earley was one of the very first artists I discovered when I was getting into Pop Surrealism years ago, so it seems fitting that I do a post on her sometime. Earley has been exhibiting her distinctive, hyperrealistic, haunting portraits of women since 2004. The “distorted realism” of these paintings gives them a poignant beauty. They portray otherworldly female subjects, sharply yet delicately delineating their slightly alien features and capturing their expressions with incredible detail. As her Website bio aptly puts it, “While her femme fatale portraits mature in style and intensity, they retain her signature ethereal quality that embodies an undeniably feminine force.”

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Tags: alien beauty, distorted bodies, doll-like, emotive, enlarged eyes, expressive, hauntingly beautiful, lori earley, neo-victorian, pop surrealism, portraits, realism, sweet/melancholy, virtuoso

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Sas + Colin: Colin Christian

04.07.11

Colin Christian makes larger-than-life sculptures of space-girls, aliens, and femme fatale creatures, in a style I dub cyber retro-erotic which takes influence from many different subcultures. Statuesque and cast in fiberglass and silicone, these cartoonishly exaggerated, indomitably perfect figures with piercing, gigantic, pellucid eyes, featuring campy titles such as Adventures on Planet Freud and The Callgirl of Cthulhu, are a sort of oddball mixture of his diverse inspirations, including “old sci-fi movies, pinup girls/supermodels, anime,” and “H. P. Lovecraft.” I find some of his work to be not to my taste, bordering on obscene or downright creepy (not to say disturbing), but these pieces below I do like. Also check out Sas’ art in the previous post.

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Tags: alien beauty, bizarre, cartoony, cyber aesthetic, distorted bodies, doll-like, enlarged eyes, erotic, fetish, futuristic, life-sized, lolita-esque, monsteresque, pinup, pop surrealism, realism, retro, sci-fi, sculptures, sinister arts and crafts, space girls, strange beauty

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Unbearably Cute, Sweet, and Slightly Odd: The Art of Dilka Bear

03.24.11

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Tags: animals, cute/creepy little girls, doll-like, fairy tales, historically inspired, pop surrealism, queens, sweet/melancholy, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, white hair

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Ray Caesar – “A Gentle Kind of Cruelty”

02.02.11

Ray Caesar (see my previous post on him here) is currently exhibiting a solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, entitled A Gentle Kind of Cruelty.

Images from the show below via Blood Milk, Hi-Fructose, and Arrested Motion. I love the beautiful detail shots taken by JL Schnabel of Blood Milk, which show the true marvelousness and beauty of Caesar’s work as it would appear close-up in person.

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Tags: 1940s, 1950s, art shows, colorful, cute/creepy little girls, doll-like, dollflesh, femininity, hauntingly beautiful, historically inspired, innocence/menace, interiors, lolita-esque, monsteresque, neo-victorian, pop surrealism, ray caesar, retro, sexuality, victorian

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Takato Yamamoto

10.30.09

An illustrator of talent and perversion, his methodically precise, highly detailed drawings are dark and erotic, mystical and alluring.

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Tags: doll-like, illustrations, takato yamamoto

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