Damian Loeb
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Damian Loeb
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| Born |
May 9, 1970 New Haven, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Self Taught |
| Known for | Painting |
Damian Loeb (born 1970) is an American painter and photographer.
Loeb had his first solo show in 1999 at Mary Boone Gallery in New York. He has also exhibited at White Cube in London, the Jablonka Galerie in Cologne, and the Kunsthalle in Hamburg. A 2006 retrospective of his work was held at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut. He is represented by Acquavella Galleries.
Loeb's early works were based on collages culled from varied sources, including advertisements, magazines, television, and books. The resulting paintings depict unsettling scenes rendered in a highly representational, seamlessly multi-layered composition. The atmosphere in the finished works expresses a dreamlike and surreal state, as if painted from an emotional memory. They allude to the work of John William Waterhouse or Andrew Wyeth, with surreal components plucked from postmodern culture.
Much of this early work gained him notoriety for his appropriation of images from contemporary media sources, and his paintings were the subject of several lawsuits brought by photographers over issues of copyright infringement. In 2004, controversy led to the removal of one of his paintings, Blow Job (The Three Little Boys) from a show at the University of Hartford.
After the appropriation series, Loeb embarked on a series of paintings based on stills from classic horror and science fiction films. To create these works, he captured and digitally combined multiple stills which were then rendered as large oil paintings.
Many of the works take the form of extreme landscapes up to 14 feet long, engulfing one's field of view and reproducing the atmospheric elements of the scene without the use of recognizable or iconic signifiers.
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