Laurie Hogin- Artist

Laurie Hogin is a recent artist whom I discovered. While searching for Flemish painters, I came across Laurie where her new style of painting is compared to such. Anyhow, I have nothing else to say about her paintings but AMAZING! See for yourself!

Laurie Hogin's allegorical paintings of vicious creatures suggestive of human counterparts skillfully appropriate 17th century Flemish painting techniques to narrate tales of a poisoned utopia. Frequently humourous images of brand-loyal monkeys, snarling bunnies and fabulously feathered bird creatures are encoded with political and cultural messages meant to critique our trust in the contemporary global economy, including celebrations of hipness, consumerism and tourism. Hogin contends that the history of European painting since the rise of the merchant class in the 16th century represents the history of Western attitudes towards the subjects depicted, including beauty, wealth, domestic life and romantic transcendence, as well as human dominion over nature. These attitudes persist, even as our means of representing them have expanded, and are but part of our daily cultural currency. Hogin's project is to employ a seductive exposition of nostalgic, painterly celebrations of beauty, romantic allegory and the pastoral idyll to reveal the ideologies inherent in these visual forms.

Information from www.momentaart.org

Images from www.lauriehogin.com