zakDEREK

Contemporary Painter What is important? Force. -- Break it down further. Influence. DEREK's work animates our individual jostling with just that: the everyday pressures of place and space (re: Sophie) and at times, the mosquitoes and their malaria (re: Edward). This is all measured in an illustrative style that evokes the mind's wanderings in ethereal things. So much so, we are left with that more deflating of reflections: Oh, no! Am I just a drama queen? DEREK has been active for a number years from his studio outside of Nagoya, Japan. He works predominately in acrylic on linen and paper. Influence and admiration span the cleanliness of Ingres' lines, Degas and Cassatt's Impressionism, Schiele's pornographic boldness -- through to Bernard Buffet's line work and John Currin's Rockwellian sex. zakderek.com

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A Hungry Hand

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A Foul Smelly Thing

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Lilly and the Fan

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Coupling http://wp.me/s4AiO3-coupling

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In the Works

It is practically July and Robert still waits, but the cities! They have come alive. Here are two in the works.

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A Manicured Little Thing

A Manicured Little Thing

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(The Reflections on) Frank

(The Reflections on) Frank

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Louis (in the Storm)

Louis (in the Storm)

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A modern family. Then again, it couldn’t be! — Far too pretend for any sane wo/man to imagine. How could one draft so far flung a tool, so far removed a man from his family life that he could very well be considered dead.

No too cruel! Stop!

But it continues! A mother, dead… or she alive? Hell, she does’t even know. And then those kids, left to feel with their senses — to grasp, but not understand what it all means.

Yes, it is a modern family — but not mine, of course.

Family Portrait A modern family. Then again, it couldn’t be! -- Far too pretend for any sane wo/man to imagine.

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Pulled http://wp.me/s4AiO3-pulled

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There in Red

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Coming http://wp.me/s4AiO3-coming

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May. It has led me here. And June? Full force, my dear. So, let us see — with a smile and a hope.

In The Works May. It has led me here. And June? Full force, my dear. So, let us see -- with a smile and a hope.

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Finished. At last, the brush called; my hand gave the answer. And now, I am happy.

A Lovely Little Potted Thing Finished. At last, the brush called; my hand gave the answer. And now, I am happy.

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From the Archive.

Child from Somewhere From the Archive.

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The Fullness of Living

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The Body of a Man or Woman