{"id":2379,"date":"2012-08-01T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:49:52","slug":"joram-roukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/joram-roukes\/","title":{"rendered":"Joram Roukes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joram Roukes<\/a> is a Dutch artist living and working in Groningen. On a totally unrelated note, my dad’s now-deceased 3rd wife was from Groningen and my half-sister grew up there after her mother left my dad… but that’s another story. Also, my now-deceased grandfather was stationed in Groningen in World War II. It’s a very nice city in any case. Joram Roukes makes paintings that could not be called very nice by any but the most inattentive viewer – they are more challenging than that, but in a good way. These are oil paintings, but he handles the medium in such a way as to suggest a variety of media – collage, graffiti, marker – it’s an unsettling effect but I find it accurately evokes the pastiche of everday life as a kind of onslaught of impressions. Plus I just like the imagery on a personal level. Maybe it’s the Groningen thing.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t