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Gritty Love of Matthew Palladino

Monday, July 21, 2008
A friend of mine has a really small Skype icon. I've been straining my eyes for weeks to make sense of it. Kind of a love heart. Kind of a shield?

So, today I popped by Park Life website and got introduced to Matthew Palladino and it all made beautiful sense.

Matthew Palladino's paintings allude to influences by early Mission School artists; colorful, flat, almost folky. From there his work diverges. His subject matter is raw, sexual, and violent; inspired by current media events and the rough edges of society. His shockingly honest portraits of American life expose all-too-real events in his ongoing narrative that tie his current works together.

There is a cool Flickr set online of this recent exhibition too.

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Pomegranate Royalty Pomegranate ON 21 Jul 2008 11:48:05AM Are those boys kissing?

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paintergirl Royalty paintergirl ON 21 Jul 2008 07:49:07PM i think they are kissing - and i think they liked it

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Pomegranate Royalty Pomegranate ON 22 Jul 2008 10:55:45AM They should write a song about it

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paintergirl - Gemma Jones is a pop art painter, curator at Outré Gallery and founder of the renegade Melbourne craft group - the Kaotic Kraft Kuties. She blogs about art, craft and the creative moments in everyday life.

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Gemma Jones is a pop art painter, curator at Outré Gallery and founder of the renegade Melbourne craft group - the Kaotic Kraft Kuties. She blogs about art, craft and the creative moments in everyday life.