Strange Art Links
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Strange Art Work This unique website exhibits strange American surrealistic art work Strange 1. Previously unknown. 2. Notably out of the ordinary. 3. Unusual. 4. Not of one's own or a particular locality, environment, or kind: EXOTIC. 5. Alien: foreign. -Webster News article about Strange Art Work "Swartzentruber Imagination on Display" by Teressa Smith, Times Union, Cover Story "Welcome to the weird" could be the theme of the most recent LAC exhibit. What's weird-Don Swartzentruber of Winona Lake calls his style pop-surreal-are the images the painter presents for inspection. The artist is used to the term "weird" as well as "strange" and "disturbing" and other words used to describe things that just aren't normal. Strange Art Work On exhibit is a very personal, autobiographical show. Swartzentruber uses religious, cultural and sexual icons in a straight-forward manner to present his thoughts on these issues…Titles include, Maternal Sin, Carnal Casino, and Estrogen…Using ancient and modern symbols, the exhibit stirs up emotions-the ones locked in the belly. In the detailed-filled works, several stories are being told-like a strange conversation. They're surreal, remember. Strange Art Work On the other side of the entrance, Swartzentruber tackles the theme of marriage and puts color to the canvases in the "Heterosexual Monogamy" series. "This became an opportunity to explore the mystical, passionate and violent process of two individuals becoming one", he said. In Organically Entwined, a couple is wrapped around and growing together like a lush vine. The only indication something is amiss is the pinched expression on one forest green face. Another work, Flesh of One Flesh two figures face each other with huge open mouths-the better to obsess over and consume one another…The exhibit is one of the most interesting presented by the LAC in a while. It may also be one of the most controversial…It's easy to leave a still-life of flowers behind. Strange Art Work Swartzentruber's paintings hover after the viewer who is then left to ascertain these themes alone…Swartzentruber swears he's conservative in his thinking. However. He is explicit in his drawings. Figures dance, twist and gaze out of their settings colored with purple, green and orange skin. Thy may sit on the head of or in the mouth of another creature. …Paint oozes past the usual boundaries just to created new borders…This is where he exorcises his personal demons. Some of the devils are quite apparent. Others are hidden in shadows or shadowed in humor. It's all a sight to see." Strange Art Work Links |
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Heterosexual Monogamy: American
regionalism paintings focused on marriage."Using ancient and modern symbols, the exhibit stirs up emotions-the ones locked in the belly. In the detailed-filled works, several stories are being told-like a strange conversation." -Times Union |
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Totem Triptychs: Pop Neo Surrealistic
paintings covering a wide variety of themes. Exhibited at the Lincoln Center
in Fort Collins, CO these 36 triptych paintings allow the panels to be interchanged. |
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Beyond Dogma:
Contemporary religious paintings such as A Deity for Darwin and Exorcism.
Various images from the collection have toured the United States, from California
to NYC. |
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Grotesque Pages: Gallery of
the grotesque art. Laboriously detailed hybrid masks come alive in this
grotesque art collection. Masks from the Chicago Field museum merge with
studies of human facial expressions. Exhibition: Midwest Museum of Art. |
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Carnivalesque Collaboration: Contemporary
artist appropriates teenage carnivalesque drawings. These dark images hold
"outsider" sensitivities. |
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Pop-Mennonite: Mennonite, Amish
art & culture. Explore conservative Mennonite religion in this contemporary
exhibit. ."…jarring juxtaposition of the sacred and the secular…" -Canadian Mennonite "…carnivalesque images that manifest from cultural critique…" -Indiana Review |
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