Commuters Go Wild in Matthew Grabelsky’s Uncanny Subway Work — Colossal
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“Giddy Up” (2022), oil on canvas, 14 × 16 inches. All photographs courtesy of Thinkspace Initiatives, shared with permission
Urbanites know the subway is a primary location to identify town’s oddities, and but, a run-in with one in all Matthew Grabelsky’s characters can be a very wild encounter. The Los Angeles-based artist has spent the previous few years rendering human-animal hybrids that nonchalantly experience public transit. Typically snacking on a cracker or brushing up on some studying, the characters are surreal, uncanny additions to an in any other case mundane scene.
Grabelsky’s latest oil work, that are at the moment on view as a part of Riders at The Model Library & Artwork Heart in Glendale, California, are hyperrealistic and laced with witty particulars much like earlier works within the sequence. Set on the New York Metropolis Subway and London Tube, the portraits are narrative-driven and embedded with popular culture references. The artist shares:
My aim is to create the impact of a scene on the subway as if it have been a diorama at a pure historical past museum. The photographs current richly detailed moments frozen in time permitting the viewer to intently examine each aspect and make connections between them to learn an general story. On this world, individuals are reworked into part-animal to create scenes which are unusual, humorous, and endearing.
Curated by Thinkspace Initiatives, Riders is on view by means of March 17. You will discover an in depth assortment of Grabelsky’s commuters on his web site and Instagram.
“Curious George Takes A Practice” (2022), oil on canvas, 16 × 20 inches
Left: “Crow-Magnon” (2022), oil on canvas, 28 × 38 inches. Proper: “Polly Wanna Cracker” (2022), oil on canvas, 24 × 36 inches
“Texas Maintain’em” (2022), oil on canvas, 12 × 16 inches
Left: “An American Werewolf In London” (2022), oil on canvas, 24 × 32 inches. Proper: “Sichuan Specific” (2022), oil on canvas, 14 × 20 inches
“Gotham Native” (2022), oil on canvas, 12 × 16 inches
#animals
#humor
#Matthew Grabelsky
#portraits
#surreal
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