Ummm, holy crap I just found the perfect ending to a semester long project. Chemically mutated guinea pigs anyone?!?!
Laurie Hogin, Pharmaceutical Guinea Pigs: Boost Your Metabolism (#5), 2011Oil on panel 6 × 6 in 15.2 × 15.2 cm
Pharmaceutical Guinea Pigs: Boost Your Metabolism (#3), 2011 Oil on panel 6 × 6 in
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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Diorama with Rozerem and Black Alligators), 2008
Oil on canvas
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Okay, what can I say, I love this. Laurie Hogin has successfully (at least for me) painted, yes, painted wildlife art that is exciting, funny, and is considered by the powers that be, to be Fine Art. The colors Laurie uses are bright, sickly neons, that seem to vibrate against one another right off the canvas. the effect is an unnatural, but beautiful, other worldly landscape, where the fauna have mutated into monsters. Their faces have been grotesquely anthropomorphized to varying degrees and convey emotions such as anger, insanity, pain, anxiety, and disgust. These animals don't belong on a trapper keeper.
Laurie's themes and concepts are right up my alley. I have been wondering about the possibilities of incorporating environmental and conservation messages into art work. I think Hogin finds a nice balance between a really smart slightly esoteric message, a striking image, and a narrative that sticks with the viewer. Her work raises issues of consumerism, environmental degradation, and human cruelty to animals. Her hyper realist style is well suited to the subject as it calls to mind the science and discovery that marked the 17th century. I think of animal specimens being collected from the jungles and rainforest of exotic lands and cataloged meticulously in the name of science.
Laurie's themes and concepts are right up my alley. I have been wondering about the possibilities of incorporating environmental and conservation messages into art work. I think Hogin finds a nice balance between a really smart slightly esoteric message, a striking image, and a narrative that sticks with the viewer. Her work raises issues of consumerism, environmental degradation, and human cruelty to animals. Her hyper realist style is well suited to the subject as it calls to mind the science and discovery that marked the 17th century. I think of animal specimens being collected from the jungles and rainforest of exotic lands and cataloged meticulously in the name of science.
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