Esao Andrews is my personal favorite artist. At 35 he lives
in Mesa, Arizona painting regularly. He has created all of the album covers of
one of my favorite bands Circa Survive. He combines Gothic grotesque, erotic
subject matter and surrealism to really create an interesting subject matter.
He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York and claims that he
works in his own movement. He calls this movement, Pop Surreal: Cartoon-Tainted
Abstract-Surrealism. He is an interesting person but is set on doing his own
thing and not following the crowd. In an interview by the NY Arts Magazine in
2007 he stated “…I'm afraid of becoming labeled. I'm young and I'm early in my
career, but things have been picking up, and I've become obsessed with this
issue. Like, I don't want to be known as one of those people that paint
wide-eyed girls. I've been trying to diversify my subject matter and not
necessarily always include funny elements like I usually do.” His use of
color really is helpful in making each of his paintings very different in terms
of color and mood.
Below are a few examples of his work:
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