• 40x38 in. 
• Oil paint on canvas, 2020.
• Unframed.

Painting only; framing materials are not included. 

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Peter Opheim is an American artist, born in 1961, in Landstuhl, Germany. He lives and works in New York City, New York, and in San Cristobal, New Mexico.

His ongoing body of work is a complex amalgamation of portraiture and still-life. For Opheim, it is important that his work has a real-world referent, and to this end, he renders tiny clay models before beginning a painting. The “subjects” are an ever-expanding family of grotesquely soulful creatures.

Lovingly painted creatures with colorful, play-doh-like skin confront the viewer with bulging eyes, disjointed body parts, and various, sometimes misplaced, orifices. As Boston Globe critic Cate McQuaid observed, “Opheim navigates the unruly thicket of themes blending childhood with adulthood – concepts that we ordinarily prefer to keep separate – to unsettling effects.”

オフェイムは現実には存在しないキャラクターが住むファンタジーの世界を創造します。

作品に表れる不思議な生き物達はそれぞれ名前があり、水彩、油彩、粘土模型など、さまざまな技法で表現されています。

一見、子ども向けのカラフルでかわいいキャラクターですが、その色使いは計算された複雑なハーモニーを奏で、これらのキャラクターは現代に向けたおとぎ話の主人公です。

今にも変化しそうな弾力的な体型は、命が宿ったぬいぐるみや人形を想像させ、子供時代のおもちゃへの愛着と少しの不思議さを見ている人に思い出させます。