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| Posted: 08 Apr 2011 02:15 PM PDT   Here's my 2nd doll at Dolls Nest, hand-painted, signed and sold with a certificate of authenticity. Size 7.5″ x 3.5″ x 3.5″. The piece includes 6 Nesting Dolls and a miniature wooden robot. I will include free shipping in the UK but International buyers will need to enquire about shipping rates. |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2011 03:43 AM PDT The flavour of LeFavor is most definitely Pop, a Bostonian-born artist with a Roy Lichtenstein slant and a 21st Century edge. His paintings and prints are as punchy as they come, sprinkled with the driest of humour and venturing into all areas of mainstream entertainment and advertising from the past. If you love Pop, if you love retro, Scott is probably about as close to a new best friend as you're gonna' find in contemporary arts. Most definitely a man, a style, and a vision that all of us jaded artniks can relate to. Life, in the main, at least in the grand scheme of things, sucks right now. The money, the hope for a bright and shiny new future, and a shared tolerance for greedy corporate and governmental strategy have all but run out of steam. The corps. continue to reel in the dough, the banks keep investing the cash they've stolen from the people they ripped off, the weather's tearing chunks out of human civilisation and no one who supposedly knows what they're doing is fixing things. I sometimes imagine what might be aired on TV at the last moment of a global thermonuclear war, I suspect it would probably be a no-win no-fee offer from a local lawyer specialising in accident compensation claims. Scott's a Boston lad, he's an edgy kind of guy judging by the work, definitely an artist I can relate to. I'm something of an ideas man, especially on a visual level, I love to see explore little known visual metaphor, delving into all the places my arts tutors warned me not to. Scott seems to be the same. If it's kitsch, it's culpable, if it's of the mainstream it's an opportunity to subvert, everything from old newspaper ads to toons to historical imagery, this guy seems to nail it on a cross of ironic pith, picking holes in the veneer of our carefully coutured and managed collective world view. We are all individuals but as far as the business world is concerned, individuality is simple another weakness to exploit, your name is a weapon, slam it on some junk mail and gain at least a few more seconds of attention from another sucker. Scott LeFavor has been instrumental in the development of the Boulder arts community, he's currently a freelance designer and artist, and was the curator for the now defunct JoyEngine. Scott has quite a few paintings and prints on sale, take a look, there might be something you fancy. He even offers custom portraits at just $100 a pop!                 |
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