Modest Cuixart, 39, cousin of Antoni Tpies, paints in a richly detailed impasto that he calls "the new baroque.
Done in a thick, ocherous impasto, which produced a paint surface that looked both lavish and summarily abbreviated, the image suggested (of all unlikely things) mushrooms: swollen .
He makes paint an equivalent to flesh, a palpable substance that he ushers across the canvas in broad paths of impasto.
In the Galleries: Past the Pillars of Hercules Advocate -featured artist Aaron Smith's canvases, with their uninhibited impasto color, look good enough to eat. read more
Oct. 22, 2013 - The Advocate