Project Tag: willfelix

  • Underbart

    Underbart, 2018
    Underbart – digital giclée canvas, 60″w x 40″h (152.4 x 101.6cm), 2018.
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    Part of the “Skandinavia” series. One original edition available for public sale; and one available for gallery/museum request.

    Named after the song “Underbart” by Little Dragon. “Underbart” is Swedish for wonderfully.

  • Shark Island

    Shark Island, 2017
    Shark Island – Digital giclée canvas, 60″w x 40″h (152.4 x 101.6 cm), 2017.
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    In the late 19th Century, there was a land grab competition in the African continent, and Germany sought to make their colonial imprint in the Namibia region in Southwest Africa. The Herero people revolted against German rule, at one point killing over 100 German settlers. Reinforcements went sent and the Herero were vanquished. Guerrilla warfare ensued, and the German response was to ship the Herero, and the Nama people who also rebelled, to concentration camps. One of the worst was located on Shark Island, off the southern coast.

    This coincided with the Eugenics movement in science, and German doctors committed atrocities on the island in their attempts to prove Aryan superiority.

    The irony of using barbarity to support a disfavored science is what brought forth this painting.

  • Alain

    Alain, digital painting, 2014

    Created in honor of my cousin, who passed away that year.

  • Ver Sacrum

    Ver Sacrum – acrylics on canvas, 20″ x 24″, 2011

    Inspired by Klimt. Created for the “two” exhibit in 2011.

  • Sylvia

    Sylvia – acrylics on board, 16″ x 20″, 2002

    I’d like to say that this piece has something to do with Sylvia Plath… so I will.

  • Humility

    Humility, 2001
    Humility – oils on board, 48″ x 48″, 2001.

    It was created in the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. I happened to be living in NYC at the time and worked in Times Square. That was a day of trauma for most of us. I sought to portray how one can find healing through reconnecting with their environment… being “humbled” by the natural world around you. The opposite of hubris; particularly the kind that would lead people to hypercapitalism and reactionary acts of terror. The moon, shining in the darkness, represents a hope to which an individual might give their soulful attention in challenging times. The tree in the background represents what’s to come once humility is embraced.

  • Histrionics

    Histrionics – acrylics on canvas, 24″ x 30″, 2001

    Semi-autobiographical take of feelings around the time of September 2001.

  • Floating

    Floating, 2003
    Floating – acrylics on board, 24″ x 24″, 2003

    This painting was actually a remake; the older version has been lost. This new interpretation was better; with better color choices and vibrancy.

  • Citiflower

    Citiflower – acrylics on board, 24″ x 24″, 2003

    An interpretation of New York City in the springtime.

  • Redhead, 2000

    Redhead – Oils on canvas, 24″ x 24″, 2000

    The first of many iterations of the redhead muse, in part inspired by Jean Grey, Marvel’s Phoenix from the X-Men.