I can't say I love his work, it seems nice to me here and there. However, his ability to combine paint and collage and abstraction deserves attention. Here are some words from his interview in 2008:
His work concentrates on the particulars of modern experiences — things like television, world events, celebrities, and day-to-day living. He held his first US solo show at BLK/MRKT in 2007.
Describe your process of creating a new piece.I spend a lot of time watching TV/films, reading books and looking around the internet... I save loads of photos I find interesting from all kinds of different places. I then flick through them, and try to think about how ideas link together, and mock up roughs in photoshop. I like combining different elements of photos of people with abstract sections of old paintings I've done. Once I've got an idea of what I want to do, I try and figure out how to paint it... sometimes the final piece looks a lot like the rough, sometimes it changes drastically while I'm painting it. When I'm painting, I just switch back and forth between paint, drawing, collage or anything lying around.
(Source: http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?id=994&option=com_content&task=view)
Describe your process of creating a new piece.I spend a lot of time watching TV/films, reading books and looking around the internet... I save loads of photos I find interesting from all kinds of different places. I then flick through them, and try to think about how ideas link together, and mock up roughs in photoshop. I like combining different elements of photos of people with abstract sections of old paintings I've done. Once I've got an idea of what I want to do, I try and figure out how to paint it... sometimes the final piece looks a lot like the rough, sometimes it changes drastically while I'm painting it. When I'm painting, I just switch back and forth between paint, drawing, collage or anything lying around.
(Source: http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?id=994&option=com_content&task=view)
The only thing I would like to mention is that in my opinion, this work would work better if it wasn't painted over a canvas, but paper. And it'd definitely fit with some text to fill hose huge empty areas. But maybe it's just the Graphic Designer inside me speaking.
