Highlights from Direct Art Volume 17

On The Cover: Dan Lydersen

....Both theatrical and satirical, comical and somber, the paintings pose a view of humanity that is steeped in the existential turmoil that lies between materiality and spirituality, where society trudges persistently forward while the human search for meaning and purpose as mortal animals remains unresolved.

Soft Serve, Oil on canvas, 60" x 36"
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Clifton Harvey

"As a child, I remember watching Mickey’s Christmas Carol and feeling deeply wounded as a heartbroken Mickey Mouse placed an abandoned crutch next to Tiny Tim’s grave. The pathos depicted in that moment left a lasting impression and inspired me to create my own narratives."

Dreadful Delights, Composite photo illustration, 12.45" x 8"

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Socio-political Iconography
Zsebe and Villamizar

Kimberly Zsebe, Genuine Mary, 13" x 9"            Sergio Villamizar, Saint Maya, 24" x 16"

  ...science more so than theology has influenced the course of art history, from the use of lenses and the focus on humanity of the Renaissance, to the invention of photography and now digital media in our contemporary world. But none if it might exist if the early church had decided to take a literal read on one of the Ten Commandments and ban images in their entirety.

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Timothy French
"Go Devil"

"That day I experienced was a moment of absolute clarity. The obstacles were gone. It was a miracle, an answered prayer, an apocalypse that after fourteen years is still unfolding and revealing an image of what I was, and am becoming."

Go Devil, Oil on panel, 36"d
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Strange Figurations

Ho Baron, Innergration, Bronze, 15" x 9" x 4"

Artists from the 2009 Strange Figurations exhibition at Limner Gallery

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FACES AND NUDES
an ongoing story

Slowinski, Primal Conflict, 1982
Pencil and acrylic on board, 40" x 30"