A good solid net for me, too

I haven't blogged about a singular artist in a while, and Javier Pinon's been on my list of artists to write about too long as it is. First of all, collage is something I have wanted to work with for a really long time but never have had much luck with; a lot of good displacement going on in it. But Pinon not only fulfills my collage lust, but has a great offbeat, folky, neo-neo-classical style. He turns classic mythological tales into psychedelic westerns, or maybe the other way around, and creates great scenes of weird human-animal hybrids engaging in weird death rituals. He's one of a too-small pool of artists who make me really really want to make shit; his colors and sources and compositions are out of this world. Is Pinon's work more style than substance? Maybe. But it's still a wellspring of ideas and feel-goodness. Also, the size of these really cracks me up, but that's an inherent limitation of collage I suppose. Which I approve of.

The Sacred Grove, Javier Pinon, 2010, collage, 16"x26", from his website.







Hercules and the Hydra, Javier Pinon, 2007, collage, 11.5"x8", also from his website.