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Post by sleepboy on Jan 21, 2009 11:06:29 GMT -8
Oooooh, some of the photos (including the above one) of that painting still make me cringe. Not very true to real life! Looks like White Walls put up the full name of the painting...."Leah Dizon Comes Downstairs At The Wrong Time And Realizes It's Not Her Apartment Right Now (1972)." I've read that Ian is a huge Lost fan, so maybe the title relates some how?? Ah, a possibility definitely. If Leah Dizon was on Lost I would be watching more regularly LOL. hehe. i also like his maria ozawa slays a dragon (or something like that) - sorry, can't seem to find any of her better clips on youtube. LOL "better clips." Um, not that I know who Maria Ozawa is but I'm liking Ian's taste more and more. Any pics of that painting you are talking about? Uh, here is a music video that I liked... |
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Post by rhinomilk on Jan 21, 2009 11:40:33 GMT -8
all i could find is an image from the bmg print (don't see it on his site anymore) "in the end Maria ozawa is rescued by some kindof dragon"  stopped by White Walls yesterday... i still wasn't very impressed with the forest piece after seeing it in the flesh (maybe I got my hopes up). dig the others though |
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Post by comiconart on Jan 21, 2009 12:34:15 GMT -8
Looks like Red Forest finally sold. That's great for Ian!
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Post by StephenW on Jan 21, 2009 13:55:55 GMT -8
Oooooh, some of the photos (including the above one) of that painting still make me cringe. Not very true to real life! Looks like White Walls put up the full name of the painting...."Leah Dizon Comes Downstairs At The Wrong Time And Realizes It's Not Her Apartment Right Now (1972)." I've read that Ian is a huge Lost fan, so maybe the title relates some how?? That's awesome. I love Leah.  |
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Post by thecreep on Jan 21, 2009 14:14:02 GMT -8
Oooooh, some of the photos (including the above one) of that painting still make me cringe. Not very true to real life! Just wondering, but how is that picture not true to real life? If there is something that could be better, I would love to know. I'm always down for progressing my photography/photoshop skills. |
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Post by comiconart on Jan 21, 2009 15:19:19 GMT -8
I'm just guessing...but I think he was referring to the actress' likeness in the painting.
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Post by bigstrunso on Jan 21, 2009 15:35:06 GMT -8
Oooooh, some of the photos (including the above one) of that painting still make me cringe. Not very true to real life! Just wondering, but how is that picture not true to real life? If there is something that could be better, I would love to know. I'm always down for progressing my photography/photoshop skills. Feels like the reds are off on that one and none of the purples are showing up. That shot of toemahs in the show thread page was the best I've seen yet. The rest of your shots in that thread were very true btw. |
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Post by thecreep on Jan 21, 2009 18:21:14 GMT -8
Just wondering, but how is that picture not true to real life? If there is something that could be better, I would love to know. I'm always down for progressing my photography/photoshop skills. Feels like the reds are off on that one and none of the purples are showing up. That shot of toemahs in the show thread page was the best I've seen yet. The rest of your shots in that thread were very true btw. Yeh, there is some purples there, the shots from Toemah haven't been color corrected. Once I did that, the reds are very close to mine. I wonder why the purples didn't show up? It could be the angle or even the glaze of the paint. Another reason why images on the net will always be inferior. I would love to get more shots of these anyway, and test out my new lens as well. |
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Post by bigstrunso on Feb 12, 2009 20:04:04 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 27, 2009 21:57:48 GMT -8
 Anyone seen his new stuff from Australia? I was a little disappointed although I did like this one. I felt some of the black and white ones were better than the color ones. The prices were nice though... |
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Post by lowpro on Mar 27, 2009 22:31:42 GMT -8
Hmm..Personally, that was one of my least favorite of the batch.
Initially, I wasn't in love will all of the work either. After marinading on things and staring incessantly at the preview for a few days, this body of work has really grown on me. A questionable piece or two, ala that fugly red monster, Two People Leaving. But A Building In Clifton and Blocked By Two Trees were just incredible. I bet they're all mindblowing in person, as I've found is the case with all Francis work after seeing a couple in the flesh.
And I agree that the monochromatic pieces are super nice. I love them! I was super impressed with Umbrella Girl from WhiteWalls and thought A Couple in Harajuku was right up there. So wish I hand't slept on that piece, along with A Girl Falls Asleep...which I really wanted to go after. They both sold by the time I realized my finances were such to allow me to go after one. I really want to round out the collection with a mono piece.
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Post by becomingrobot on Mar 28, 2009 9:30:08 GMT -8
Its strange how the parts of his paintings that SHOULD have relief, that appear like physical marks (either brush or palette knife) are smooth to the surface. Seriously, this guy stumps me. Also, I'm confused b/c that which looks printed has no "dots" and that which looks painted has no brush strokes. I can't imagine he is spending that much time glazing.
Anyways, I know he had process documentation on his site at one point. Does anyone know where that is available—mirrored or archived?
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Post by juggernut3 on Apr 3, 2009 6:13:55 GMT -8
The Ian Francis show is up. ( My favs below) Check out the rest of the show here.    |
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Post by sleepboy on Dec 28, 2009 8:33:36 GMT -8
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Post by havana09 on Dec 28, 2009 9:13:15 GMT -8
Wow! Thanks. Does it look like he pastes the images on paper onto the canvas?
Is this for an upcoming show? Any more pictures?
Lots of questions, sorry. Hello Artchival! Glad to be here.
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Post by juggernut3 on Dec 28, 2009 10:22:40 GMT -8
Wow! Thanks. Does it look like he pastes the images on paper onto the canvas? Is this for an upcoming show? Any more pictures? Lots of questions, sorry. Hello Artchival! Glad to be here. Welcome to the board. No, he doesn't paste the images onto the canvas. He actually uses them as studies and paints the images in by hand. We wrote a little about his photo-realistic process and took tons of pics. Incase you missed the link you can see them in the post on Arrested Motion here. |
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Post by kdfii on Jan 22, 2010 18:40:26 GMT -8
Wow! Thanks. Does it look like he pastes the images on paper onto the canvas? Is this for an upcoming show? Any more pictures? Lots of questions, sorry. Hello Artchival! Glad to be here. He does not paste paper images, but he does use a photo transfer process on some of his works. What you would think are photo elements, however, are usually not and are actually painted. (For instance, facial details.) His transfer process is used most often in the architectural elements of his work. Best KDF |
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Post by sleepboy on Jan 29, 2010 8:20:19 GMT -8
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Post by steveinca on Jan 29, 2010 16:17:07 GMT -8
thanks for the link sleep. Ian's style is truly unique. I absolutely love his work.
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Post by Weezy on Mar 7, 2010 23:12:02 GMT -8
This is amazing work. What galleries represent him?
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Post by svenman on Mar 8, 2010 4:04:04 GMT -8
This is amazing work. What galleries represent him? lazarides in the uk, where he has an upcoming show, and kinsey desforges in la, but i know they closed their space, but presume they still rep him. |
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Post by svenman on Mar 27, 2010 1:48:35 GMT -8
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Post by epicfai on Mar 27, 2010 4:22:53 GMT -8
wow. these look incredible.
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Post by lowpro on Mar 27, 2010 11:15:55 GMT -8
Thanks for the images, Sven. Real photogs of the work on the wall always do his work much more justice. Not to diverge away too much, but help a brother out with the following... One the aspects I love most about Ian's work is the insane detail he's able to achieve, in his otherwise abstract compositions, with the architectural elements therein. They lay the groundwork for the dreamlike narratives to unfold. I was especially blown away by the level of detail exhibited on the building in the above painting..so much so that I keep going back to marvel at it. Originally, I had assumed they were merely recreated from photo references. On the most recent gander, however, I noticed the scissors and the cut piece of paper, with what appears to have a missing piece of a building at around the same scale, resting beside him. And the image itself shows Ian appearing not to be painting, per se, but to be applying something else..an adhesive of some sort, perhaps? Perhaps he's throwing on some leveling gel (not that I know what that is) or putting on a preliminary coat of varnish to protect the work he had just painted? I know collaging/transferring used to be a component of his work. Even just last year April, I assume he was still incorporating some collage into his work, as most of the pieces were labeled "oil, acrylic, graphite, pen, ink, and transfer on canvas". Is seems, however, with not a single piece in the Laz show referencing anything akin to that, he may have moved on. Personally, considering Ian is so incredibly talented with the brush and the pen, I'd rather know every element in his work is hand done and I'm happy to see a departure from it with this most recent body of work. But that's besides the point. In the case of the above image, do you think he was transferring that building onto the canvas from a computer printout? Or do you think he painted that by hand? |
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Post by sleepboy on Oct 20, 2010 20:01:27 GMT -8
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