Squeeze, 2011 Acrylic on canvas. 110 x 80 cm
Small Faces, 2011 Acrylic on canvas. 110 x 80 cm
DeShannon, 2011 Acrylic on canvas. 80 x 74.5 cm
Cadogan, 2011 Acrylic on canvas. 80 x 74.5 cm
Friday, 24 June 2011
Monday, 23 May 2011
The Gallery Cafe presents a selection of new paintings and prints by Carl Stimpson. Gallery Cafe, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PL. Privet View - Thursday, June 2nd at 7:30pm - June 29th at 6:30pm.
Redolent of wartime propaganda posters, Carl Stimpson’s paintings are a call to arms against the visual doldrums. Dominated by images of soldiers hurrying to battle, appropriated from Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s Boy Commandos comics of the 1940’s, Stimpson’s paintings make exigent the allegory of visual immediacy. Ballooning breasts of femmes fatales appropriated from Frank Frazetta’s illustrated fantasy-worlds, playfully contrast and sexualise the images of war and machinery that they exaggeratedly tower above. Like the chiselled chin of a Waffen SS guard, their over-developed protrusion incites a feverish compliance. Although no blood is actually seen to be spilled in these painted narratives, the smack of red lipgloss, or the claret of a revealing nightgown, suggest a sanguinary conclusion.
In opposition to the terrifying rhetoric within the captions of propaganda posters, Stimpson’s narrators express – through thought balloons, not speech bubbles – their internal malaise and human conditions. Incongruously, these thoughts recall lyrics from songs, devoid of their original context, they take on sinister and wistful undertones. These are paintings to arouse the army of the psyche, beware the consequences.
All are welcome to the privet view on the first Thursday of June. If you can come along that would be great.
All the best. Carl.
HAIL TO THE KING!
artists pay tribute to Jack Kirby
curated by Jason Atomic & Garry Vanderhorne
featuring:
Feroze Alam, Jason Atomic, Anthony Ausgang, Angela Edwards, Finlay Cowan, Espira, Dennis Franklin, The Gothic Hangman, Vlad Quigley, Skot Reynolds, Carl Stimpson, Suckadelic, Mark Wigan, Yes Future...
Original soundtrack inspired by the life of Kirby by Joe Alexander Melotte
special closing event organised by UK comics expert Paul Gravett to be announced!!!
artists pay tribute to Jack Kirby
curated by Jason Atomic & Garry Vanderhorne
featuring:
Feroze Alam, Jason Atomic, Anthony Ausgang, Angela Edwards, Finlay Cowan, Espira, Dennis Franklin, The Gothic Hangman, Vlad Quigley, Skot Reynolds, Carl Stimpson, Suckadelic, Mark Wigan, Yes Future...
Original soundtrack inspired by the life of Kirby by Joe Alexander Melotte
special closing event organised by UK comics expert Paul Gravett to be announced!!!
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Jimmy's Iced Coffee, 2011 Acrylic on canvas. 80 x 35 cm
Jimmy's Iced Coffee festival stand. Design and construction by Paul Horne. Paintwork by Carl.
For more information on Jimmy's please visit www.jimmysicedcoffee.com
Jack Kirby is the legendary icon responsible for bringing to life, the modern day superhero.
His work from the 40's through to his death in the early 90's, didnt just help shape the way in which comic art is seen today, but practically changed the whole world with his dynamic visionary style.
He invented sometimes with his co-conspirator Stan Lee, the Fantastic Four, the original X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, the Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, Galactus, Uatu the Watcher, Magneto, Ego the Living Planet, the Inhumans and their hidden city of Attilan, and the Black Panther — comics' first known black superhero — and his African nation of Wakanda.
Plus a whole other universe of colourful fantasy wonder like the New Gods, Mister Miracle, and The Forever People.
The list of iconic characters is endless and it's a real shame that the whole world knows them all by sight but may not know the genius who brought them to life.
Marvel Comics is known as 'the house that Jack built' because of his amazing legacy.
This show is our tribute to the king with several incredible internationally renowned artists showing how the king Kirby influenced their lives!
Feroze Alam
Jason Atomic
Anthony Ausgang
Angela Edwards
Espira
Dennis Franklin
Gothic Hangman
Part2ism
Vlad Quigley
Skot Reynolds
Carl Stimpson
Suckadelic
Mark Wigan
Artwork will be available to view by appointment at Resistance until the first week of May, contact the gallery at: resistancegallery@yahoo.co.uk for times.
Hope you can come and have a look.
All the best. Carl.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Friday, 7 May 2010
A steadied pistol, trails of smoke, enormous concrete pillars, these are just some of the external forces that threaten to determine the fate of the “Girls in Carl Stimpsons paintings.
These maidenly young women of equivocal age, synonymous with girls of the Archie comic’s era, are staged in ever-unpredictable situations. Their discordant presence within scenes of car crashes and other impending danger are crucial features of Stimpson’s role as creator, pulling the strings and playing games with the viewer.
Stimpson’s source material, the works of cartoonist Dan De Carlo (of Archie comics fame) and Edgar P.Jacobs among others, provide the subjects and visual information for his presentation of appropriated compositions. Painting from the enlarged originals via projection Stimpson’s method exploits the printed form and rich surfaces of the comic book image to create equally unique and new works of art. As in his painting ‘Museum Pin-Up and ‘Showgirls Stimpson confronts us with an inflated sense of both proportion and content. Through Stimpson’s faithfulness to the original image and his painstaking rendering of the printed surface, we find him working in an artistic form which itself mimes the origins of the comic book source material.
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Sunday, 14 February 2010
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