Ales Bask Hostomsky

I'm going to keep it going on the art theme today. I recently discovered the great blog Wouldn't You Like To See Something Strange?, choc full of really great (or is it strange?) art, including work from Jason Freeney, Jeff Soto, and my personal favorite, Todd Schorr (I'll forgive you, Diane, for not posting The Spectre of Monster Appeal).

Anyway, I was able to catch a couple of gallery shows in Cleveland a few years back, featuring the incredible work of one Ales Bask Hostomsky. Fantastic, gritty work with an oh-so-subtle tongue-in-cheek humor.

From his site:

The artist’s richly textural work imbue his “anti-iconic,” sometimes satirical worldview with an undercurrent of dark emotion. His canvases are the city’s flotsam and jetsam of industrial and consumer decay. Combining his graphic skill with his trademark multi-layered applications, Bask builds up the surface only to break down the image. “My art is a type of deconstruction,” says Bask, “I try to focus on the imperfection of things, rather then their unachievable perfection.”

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