Recently spotted in Los Angeles: two young girls wearing cat masks and outfits match ing the floral wallpaper behind them. Other strange figures, like a beautiful woman lying on a couch with a blood-red organism growing out of a wound on her back and another woman lying on the beach with a parasol and octopus tentacles for legs, were seen as well.
Welcome to the bizarre and fantastical world of Ray Caesar. His mesmerizing digital paintings were shown at the Berman Turner gallery at Bergamot Station art center last month.
Familiar and yet strange, contemporary but at the same time classical, the paintings have contradictory effects on the viewer. The compositions are inspired by famous paintings such as Boudin’s impressionist “Woman with a Parasol on the Beach,” or Boucher’s “Mademoiselle O’Murphy.” These revered art works are doctored by Caesar’s extraordinarily furtive imagination, transforming classical beauties into beautiful but disturbing […]
Original post by Leonora Oppenheim
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