James Bullough, painter

BALTIMORE, MD

“As a child growing up in the suburbs of Washington DC, I remember being enamored with the edgy, urban, “in your face” graffiti art that I saw through the windows of the DC subway.” With no formal training, experimentation became the rule rather than the exception in his work. Abstract fields of deep space began to emerge on scraps of found wood painted with little more than left over remnants of house paint. More recently, he has begun exploring the teachings of the Dutch Masters and painting highly rendered oil paintings of contemporary imagery. In his current body of work he explores the balance between these contrasting elements. Abstract graffiti inspired backgrounds live with color and texture are met with intensely realistic images. Highly rendered portraits float atop layers of ambient space and geometric forms. Contemporary street art techniques and materials collide with those of the realist oil painters he so admires

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