Welcome to the Artist Spotlight at Rogue Gallery. Every month, we will be highlighting a new artist or subject matter that we find truly inspiring and buzzworthy. In this month's Spotlight, we proudly share the work of Rick Andriola. We found Ricks work to be a refreshing fusion of pop art, street art and fine art utilizing color effects reminiscent to some of the screen work of Andy Warhol. He captures familiar faces and scenes that are engrained into the collective unconscious mind of American culture. Join us in our admiration of new art and inspiring creatives again right here at Rogue Gallery next month. For now, enjoy. Based out of Athens GA, Rick Andriola, a street artist from Saratoga Springs, NY describes himself as a “go big or go home” type of person. He has always been a fan of comic book art, graffiti, street-‐art, and pop art and his love of film can be seen in his subject matter. He likes painting on huge canvases. To maximize the size of his paintings, he began to build the canvases himself. He now builds them for other artists as well and guarantees lifetime durability. His “designed-‐to-‐ship” multi-‐panel paintings have even been shipped to China. He wants to hook everybody up, one wall at a time. Check out more of his work at WickedBigArt.com.
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Jim Mazzocco
3/13/2017 09:26:23 pm
I love the colors and the subject matter. A gifted artist, he nails it on every piece.
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A great specter is looming over the art world: the specter of Inter|Sekt. For far too long we have watched the artists of our generation turned into a disposable commodity, bought and sold by the galleries, stifled in their expression by the tastes of the art consultants who purchase pieces on behalf of financially minded clients who want a "solid investment".
They have been amalgamated into schools, said schools are a device of gallerists and art historians to divide and conquer the creatives and free thinkers. For we live in a nation which thinks itself to be free yet is not, they expect the same of their artists. Our culture has been raped and plundered by the upper echelon, picked apart and sold by the same greed mongers who claim to be it's patrons. The tool which has most effectively stunted the growth of modern American art in particular is the clever indoctrination of this idea of schools to not only the art student but anyone whom even reads a brief survey of the history of art sees that it is broken up into these categorized schools; the philosophies of these various sects creates conflict, division, and ultimately destruction of the morale and submission to the established order. Thus rendering the creative spirit confused and useless. This helps curb the rebellious spirit of the average citizen outside of the art world in other spheres of society. Art history is a lie and galleries are dens of thieves! Inter|Sekt is not destroying the schools or the galleries, we are simply showing you they were never real, at least not in a world outside of that constructed by academics to sell text books to art students. The reign of the gallerists and art consultants is over when you want it to be. From the ashes of the indoctrinated schools of every form of art shall arise The New World Creative. -Steven Lee Matz- The inter|sekt manifesto
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