Alexi Worth’s playful paintings have an on-again-off-again relationship with photography, illustration, and art history. The above painting is titled “The Formalists,” and it’s a very formal painting. On one hand the composition is geometric, and on the other the people are wearing black-tie, on the third hand they’re about to get intimate. Is it me or are those panties like a black hole?
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Bill, these are fantastic! The first image’s unusual angle and obscure double-action is magnificent!
Sasha, I like these a lot too. I found out about the paintings from Jeremy Willis, who is a B/D studio visitee. Alexi’s a writer too, he used to write for ArtForum, and he did a phenomenal piece for Slate on the late style of Willem De Kooning that I still remember after reading it when it came out in 1997.
Yea i love the perspective on all of them. Really bizarre take on very basic subject matter!
Amir, I know, when I look at “The Formalists” and “Beautiful Unfinishable Magazine” (liked that title btw) I can feel my eyes strain to try and see more, or see into the shadow.
Oh wow that’s cool Bill! I’d love to read it, does he have a website where I can check it out?
Alexi’s has links to his articles at: http://www.alexiworth.com/writing.htm
and the Slate piece that I like is at: http://www.slate.com/?id=2912
Sweet Bill I will definitely check this out! Thanks!
Damnit that man can paint! Nice job on this Bill, glad it worked out.
Maybe you should edit the blog subject Beautiful/Decay | Decaying Since 96 to more generic for your subject you create. I liked the blog post all the same.