California based artist Oliver Vernon’s paintings draw upon an incredibly varied pool of influences, from abstract expressionism, to post pop surrealism and the polished finish of figurative realism.
Each painting has it’s own set of rules, or rather the rules are being bent, broken and ultimately formed within each painting. Color, form, energy, architecture, good, evil, flesh and machine are lurking, never as physical entities, but as transient archetypes searching out their final places within the framework of the cosmos.
His work is part of numerous collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
prung
Tilt
Last Stop
Full Bleed
Fifth Stage
Stillness in Velocity
Quickening
Past Present Future
Landslide
Hidden
The Journey
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