Five to Watch: Painted Lives

John Wentz

Wentz is a painter who navigates the waters between “rigid technicality and honest expression” according to his website. He works with a limited palate of blue-greens and reds, exploring the emotive power of such colors while experimenting with compositional concepts. While working mostly within the confines of the human form, he gives his subjects an eerie fading quality that throws the illusion of their reality into question and forces the viewer to confront the visual manipulation of paint and canvas. Check out him on instagram.

Suggestion from Melissa Uroff.

Becca by John Wentz

Iggy Pop by John Wentz Oil on vinyl record.

Abstraction No. 4 by John Wentz

Andrea Joyce Heimer

Heimer, a self-taught painter paints in a genre she calls ‘suburban mythology’. Each of her pieces tells a story, partly autobiographical and partly allegorical, about living in suburbia. Because of that, many of her titles are long, some nearly paragraph length. Her style is in the vein of Primitivism and Fauvism, following in the footsteps of artists like Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Check out her work on instagram.

Suggestion from Melissa Uroff.

Insomnias And I by Andrea Joyce Heimer

I Have Always Believed Houses Hold Their Own Memories by Andrea Joyce Heimer

Pillow Fights In The Neighborhood Were Things Of Legend. As Each Crop Of Girls Reached Puberty Yet Another Season Of Pillow Fights Sparked Off, Erupting With All The Tension Of Tender Youth Forced Into The Most Transformative Of Their Lives by Andrea Joyce Heimer

Jacqueline Tiepermann

Tiepermann is a Melbourne based artist. Her oil paintings are bright and beautiful, reminiscent of wildflowers in spring. The colors she uses are brilliant and well blended while still maintaining their own separate identities. See more of her work on instagram.

Suggestion by Sarah Elliott.

Untitled New Work by Jacqueline Tiepermann Oil on Paper

Works from Jacqueline Tiepermann’s Viaggio Exhibit at Becker Minty Potts Point

Nushi by Jacqueline Tiepermann Oil on Oil Paper

Gregory Hergert

This Portland based artist’s painterly eye creates work with both an impish and provocative air about them. His work is a bit outlandish. This is especially true of his personification pieces where he reinterprets bugs and animals, such as flies and wolves. For more of his work check out his instagram.

Suggestion by Alejandro Montaño

Peckered by Gregory Hergert

Grid Fetish by Gregory Hergert

Spider by Gregory Hergert

Bicicleta Sem Freio

This super colorful Brazilian collective is full of artists who want to create and are pretty solid at getting stuff done. Bicicleta Sem Freio’s style is a psychedelic swirl of geometric and organic forms, and they use it for everything from beer labels to murals around the world. Their page is fun to follow because of the mix of art presentation and the “behind the scenes” shots that make being an artist look so fun. Check out their instagram for more.

Suggestion by Melissa Uroff.