Hope Gangloff
I stumbled across some pieces by NYC artist Hope Gangloff and was really blown away by her approach to surface and pattern. She paints scenes from the hipster jungle littered with tats and empty PBR cans that evoke early modernist traditions of painting, with a totally fresh approach that goes well beyond the isms.
I looked around a bit more and found this article: Hope Gangloff: Memories in Acrylics – CHAOS Magazine.
Rather Egon Schiele, isn’t it?
True – there’s definitely undercurrents of Schiele, Klimt, Lucien Freud, even a bit of Matisse. But, as Picasso (apocryphally) said, great artists steal, bad artists borrow – a good artist doesn’t just ape a style, but incorporates its qualities into their own work. I think Gangloff does just that.