Castle

Castle

Born 1966. Lives and works in Des Moines, IA.<br>I make paintings from found photographs culled from a fairly wide cornucopia of sources; travel brochures, coffee table books, album covers, postcards, etc. Anything possessing an interesting palette and suitable subject are normally my parameters when choosing what to paint. I generally tend to stick with the more traditional subjects of landscape and portraiture painted in a contemporary or fractured manner.

Most recently, I have been employing a second image in order to define the primary image. This secondary image serves as a sort of grid system itself, but refracts the image in an interesting and more often than not, interesting way. There frequently arises a third image, a sort of conversation between the synthesis of the two formative images. I find this condition of an image resting in the limbo between abstraction and representation ultimately the driving force behind my work.

Brown, Alex

University of Iowa. School of Art and Art History

2003

2004-09-15

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The Daily Palette Digital Collection

Visual Arts

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oil on canvas

Still image

Oil painting (Technique); Oil paintings (Visual works)

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