6/9/09

Ian Swanson

There is a Detroit area painter whose work has really been catching my eye lately, Ian Swanson.

www.iancswanson.com

I thought you might enjoy checking his work out -- it's a mix of really highly finished stuff and rougher, almost haphazard elements. I can see a little Chris Martin (the painter, not the guy from Coldplay), a little Aaron Curtner, a little of each of us too, in his work. I thought Tim, especially, might consider him for future SCENE Metrospace stuff.

I'm going to try to make one of his openings, he seems to be pretty active and productive right now, and I totally dig the compositions he comes up with.

2 comments:

lightgeist said...

i love it
its so perfect
with perfect flaws even

its like heaven in space or sumthin

stargrazer said...

it walks this futuristic/past-erific line, occasional translucent wells of color on these polished milky expanses, unbroken artifacts and malfunctioning imaginary machines.

I really took a shine to it.