Andrew Batcheller-Batcheller’s paintings walk a fine line between being cheesy and awe-inspiring, but for most people they should fall firmly on the side of the latter. His style of working is in the same vein as work that might be considered “New Age,” the type of art that might be made by people who heal themselves by laying crystals on their body or believe that real-life problems are caused by warring spirits out in the cosmos. And maybe Batcheller is into that stuff — and there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that — but the typical tendency for an artist of the New Age belief is to make incredibly precise, surrealistic scenes of the world and the universe that come off feeling flat and sterile. Perhaps it is a symptom of viewing reality as an illusion that causes so much New Age art to feel this way, but it is not the case with Batcheller’s work. Though he may use a similar aesthetic quality and imagery, one is able to perceive a strong feeling of substance within the work.
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 12:49:32 +0000
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