Bailey Gardner (XX) - Utopian Landscape

Description of the artist's painting

This is an oil painting 60x60 cm on stretched canvas inspired by artist David Hockney, one of my favorite artists. I try to steer away from 'local color' and explore what colors the naked eye really sees rather than relying on what color you think something in nature would be.

The original work of the artist is available and will be sent.

Biography / About the artist

Bailey Gardner is a contemporary American artist. She enjoys using the grid method and the Golden Ratio to idealize figures. She explores the concept of Utopia, a fictional paradise of leisure and pleasure, filled with naked figures at rest, using vivid, unnatural colors. Gardner has also developed a fondness for creating dystopias that feature horrifying scenes of devastation and a loss of individuality. The artist compares these opposing worlds, contrasting the zones we aspire to with the ones we do not wish to know, by presenting these two bodies of work side by side.

Bailey Gardner was born in 1997 in the USA. She earned her BFA at the University of Kansas and her MFA at the New York Studio School. Gardner recently completed a post-graduate program at The Slade School of Fine Art in London.