Vincent Vee
Vincent Vee is a figurative painter and assemblage artist who has exhibited in Europe. Recent exhibitions include Agostino Gallery in Milan, Parma Art Festival in Parma, Italy, Grande Ausonia Hungaria Hotel in Venice, and Bury Art Museum in England. He describes the origins of his work based on integrating “the world of Eastern Christian Icons with Western European Pop Art…Both Eastern iconography and Western Pop Art, which so aptly characterize the contemporary Western world, are based on the principle of replicating existing creativity according to schematic rules”.
Whether just straight acrylic painting or combining photographic prints to create assemblage-based paintings, Vincent explores the human figure, of both celebrities and hired models, which reflect dynamic methods of visual communication and consumption. These paintings and assemblages based on stimulating sensory experiences usually combine texts to flow easily with the color schematics and overall composition of the artworks. By fusing the power of the written word, Vincent goes beyond just capturing the figure and creates a direct correlation to creative writing, contemporary advertising, pop art, and references to Eastern Orthodoxy.
These paintings are rich in texture and color containing blobs of scratchy brush strokes, appearing as if carved rather than painted with a brush. Vincent provides the viewer with an insight between the relationship between varying points of visual stimulation, from reading, to absorbing flat colors and surfaces, to admiring the sophisticated expressive realism in painting figurative portraits. His depiction of celebrities and models conveys notions deeply ingrained into popular visual consumption, reflecting on a collective psyche in regard to recognition of familiarity combined with unusual forms and techniques in the way he presents his subjects.
She (pictured above) depicts an assemblage photographic print of a model Vincent captured with his camera in the studio. The piece reflects his artistry beyond just painting and also into interactive assemblage and his skill as a fashion photographer. Combining creative writing as if the figure were on the cover of a magazine handwritten instead of printed. Vincent redefines the meaning of pop art. The piece contains a monochromatic, earthy essence and color schematic, unusual compared to his more colorful works.
Vincent Vee explores the variation of capturing the human figure with iconography, the written word, symbolism, realism, and variation of approaches beyond just straight painting with assemblage and fashion photography. He remains a complex, dynamic artist who advances the cause of painting beyond merely capturing the subject and interpreting the figure through several modes of communication. With a strong portfolio and sophisticated eye for form, color, and composition, Vincent Vee offers a promising career in extending the purpose of pop art combined with other modes of visual expression.
