I found out about this young guy from fecal face.

I was going to start this article out by saying, “Hey, I’m not a big art guy but…” and then I thought about it and, of course, I am a big art guy. In fact I’m pretty much a big anything guy, except for maybe a big snake or big genocide kind of guy. When it comes to art I claim to love realism, yet I love Pollock. I like old skate art, yet I hate this new gory skate art scene that has emerged from it. As much as or possibly more so than music, art is subjective. I like what I like, you like what you like… But we all probably like The Group Of Seven and that sweet Edvard Munch with the scream bro. Every now and then, without looking for it I find an artist that punches me in the stomach with how awesome he/she is. Thanks Henry Gunderson, I’m winded.

So lets talk about Henry. From what I was able to gather from his Fecal Face interview, young Henry is well… young! This dudes only 18 years old. When I was 18 all I could think about was bumming smokes and trying to get my 19 year old friends to buy me beers to drink in the parking lot. Somehow Gunderson has seemed to over come that young age obstacle and create some of the best art I’ve seen in a long time. Judging from the art one is able to gather that Gunderson was really into skateboarding as a youth, it’s in there whether you can see it or not. I mean come on, he’s from San Fran, skate-bombing hills is the only other thing to do besides this.

I’m not sure what to make of his art however. Most paintings include animals, if not all. Most of them jaggedly cut and spliced into others in some sort of mad science experiment done through painting… with awesome geometrical shapes and colours thrown in for good measure.

As I see this style of art becoming more and more popular, I also see certain artists such as Gunderson, Mel Kadel and Jeremy Fish emerging more as masters of the form. As stated before I dont know much about art so here’s my art correspondent in the feild and current Emily Carr student L. “Too Many Names” T.W on the work of Henry Gunderson:

“Yhese paintings are a cacophony of postmodernism. The use of semiotics is complemented by seemingly random organization of his collaged elements. The illustrative quality of the paintings brings about histories of storytelling and mythology.”

Good one L.T.W… I’m done talking about this, lets see some more cool pictures shall we:

this one scares me a bit:

-lionsteeth

Tags: Art, gunderson, L.T.W, lionsteeth