Brian Ermanski
Posted on | October 1, 2009 | No Comments
Photo by Ashes 57
Some artists demand peace and repose to paint, a secluded haven away from the chaos of the city. Brian Ermanski, however, is not one of these sensitive souls. Ermanski paints outside on the streets of New York. His vast canvases channel the movement of the people that pass him by.
His paintings are wrought with emotion, revisiting the joy and the pain of past loves. The ‘Art Whore’ appears in a number of his works; a former girlfriend who had no compunction about sleeping her way to the top. Although this theme is intensely personal to him, most of us can empathise with the anger and sorrow of rejection that inform these works.
Now Ermanski is in the ascendancy, and fame and fortune seem to be tantalisingly within grasp. His work has appeared in Vogue and the New York Times, and some major collectors on either side of the pond are sniffing around.
I picked up a couple of his smaller pieces for the show. His dalliances with pop art represent a interesting departure from the main body of his work, and both the pieces I chose have an overt pop art influence. I certainly hope to get more work by him in the future. I just hope his prices don’t rocket out of control while my back is turned.
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