Jeremy Miranda is fantastic. Miranda is fascinated with how the mind creates memories and the juxtaposition of experience both real and perceived. He often emphasizes a natural landscape onto a man maid one. In many of there is a sense of strange connection, almost how a random smell, word, or image can take you back to some distant memory. In that way the paintings provide an endless number of possible stories. Was a man in a library when he say Moby Dick on the shelf and suddenly though of the high seas. Perhaps they represent the vivid imaginations rather than memories, showing the power of the mind to create and connect ideas. In some cases it seems like Miranda juxtaposes the serene untouched beauty of nature with the haphazard expansion and development of mankind.
Kai Samuels Davis is a contemporary painter who focuses on "the moments we keep to ourselves." His paintings, done in oil, are usually solitary portraits which capture the time spent in our head, alone and often not shared. His portraits often do not show an expression of communication, rather one of self reflection or daydreaming. My personal favorite effect of his is the motion blur in which he prompts the audience to live in the moment. He will take pictures of his models with the intentional blur in order to capture the true effects light and the brain on our vision. Davis says he tries to go for relatable feelings as well, actions we often do but never really think about.
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