2024 Holiday Season Sale
2024 Holiday Season Sale
 

My 2024 Holiday Season Sale is now in effect, until January 2, 2025 at 12AM EST. Orders from the Print Store that exceed $200 will be 20% off. All you have to do is add the code HOL2024 when prompted during checkout.

All fine art limited edition prints are produced with archival pigmented inks and printed on exhibition quality substrates. Each limited edition print comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, hand-signed by me, with the edition number. Please allow 2 - 5 weeks for delivery, dependent upon location. Prints are packaged and shipped in a sturdy tube. For a full list of policies regarding print orders, please click: Policies.

 
 
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New Work: Oizys - the Personification of Misery
 

Detail of Oizys, Artist: Andrew Binder, 2024

 
 

Honestly, this image wasn't originally meant to be so...purple, but I decided to let the process go where it was taking me. I originally envisioned it as overwhelmingly blue, but as the piece developed it kept coming out a bit too drab, and so more and more magenta tones kept being added. Like my prior piece Man, Composition in Red and Blue, this is a bit of an experiment mixing digital watercolor in with elements of my usual process (with the digital watercolor taking the lead). I'm experimenting with this flattened, mysterious figure idea at the moment.

The title Oizys refers to an ancient Greek goddess, a lesser deity that personified misery, distress and suffering. As usual, I'm not concerned with being consistent with any traditional visual representations of this mythological figure. Rather, I use the title "Oizys" as an expressive conceptual device. A lot of my work represents what I'm feeling at the moment, or is a reflection of my feelings about what's going on in the world around me, etc. I wanted the figure to appear almost as a phantasm whose features were not clear or distinct, yet conveyed a feeling of sadness and foreboding. A harbinger of doom. “Oizys” seems a perfect reflection of the feelings that were going into this image when making it.

 
 
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