Baltimonster merges art and horror
With all the local color and excitement that one would expect from a Halloween event in Baltimore, Baltimonster delivered with artistic merit and a display of Baltimore pride and spirit.
Last Friday, in the Echo, a venue next to the Windup Space on North Avenue, Baltimonster featured works from many of Baltimore's most prominent young artists and musicians, all with emphasis on the eerie and macabre.
Peter Goode, who focuses mostly on oil painting, contributed works with a palette highly reflective of graffiti colors which he often blended into muddy, murky patterns. His works tend to feature amorphous clouds of mixed color with many hidden images. His largest and most noticed work featured at Baltimonster was an oil painting entitled "Goodbye Kitty," featuring an image of Hello Kitty with skull exposed.
Brady Starr, a painter who has received attention throughout Baltimore as an incredibly talented artist, presented works with emphasis on ghostly, ethereal images. One of Starr's paintings at the show, "The Watcher," was composed mostly of androgynous shapes and color play. This work featured a ghostly, incomplete woman standing in front of and partly blending into what appears to be a still life with a bottle behind her. Starr presents a masterful color use and amazing technical skill in creating these ghostly, otherworldly beings.
James D. Eichelberger, an artist with clear exceptional technique and vision, presented a small number of works at the show, but these works spoke volumes of his skill. In "Bábätko v Zrkadle," Eichelberger depicts conjoined fetuses suspended in a color scheme of bloody, natural hues, reminiscent of child birth and the body. In his graphite drawing of "Poopkins the Monster," Eichelberger presents a single image of a grotesque face emerging from a textured background.
Artist Alex Fine focused on political messages slighting Sarah Palin. In "One of these is just like the others," Fine presents a series of illustrations of famous movie monsters including Freddy Krueger and Jason, with Sarah Palin represented as the last image in the group. He also displayed a popular poster with imagery highly reminiscent of communist propaganda. Sarah Palin appears on a red background with the word "Regress" printed beneath her.
Last Friday, in the Echo, a venue next to the Windup Space on North Avenue, Baltimonster featured works from many of Baltimore's most prominent young artists and musicians, all with emphasis on the eerie and macabre.
Peter Goode, who focuses mostly on oil painting, contributed works with a palette highly reflective of graffiti colors which he often blended into muddy, murky patterns. His works tend to feature amorphous clouds of mixed color with many hidden images. His largest and most noticed work featured at Baltimonster was an oil painting entitled "Goodbye Kitty," featuring an image of Hello Kitty with skull exposed.
Brady Starr, a painter who has received attention throughout Baltimore as an incredibly talented artist, presented works with emphasis on ghostly, ethereal images. One of Starr's paintings at the show, "The Watcher," was composed mostly of androgynous shapes and color play. This work featured a ghostly, incomplete woman standing in front of and partly blending into what appears to be a still life with a bottle behind her. Starr presents a masterful color use and amazing technical skill in creating these ghostly, otherworldly beings.
James D. Eichelberger, an artist with clear exceptional technique and vision, presented a small number of works at the show, but these works spoke volumes of his skill. In "Bábätko v Zrkadle," Eichelberger depicts conjoined fetuses suspended in a color scheme of bloody, natural hues, reminiscent of child birth and the body. In his graphite drawing of "Poopkins the Monster," Eichelberger presents a single image of a grotesque face emerging from a textured background.
Artist Alex Fine focused on political messages slighting Sarah Palin. In "One of these is just like the others," Fine presents a series of illustrations of famous movie monsters including Freddy Krueger and Jason, with Sarah Palin represented as the last image in the group. He also displayed a popular poster with imagery highly reminiscent of communist propaganda. Sarah Palin appears on a red background with the word "Regress" printed beneath her.
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