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Artist Joshua Suda paints amazing hyperrealistic oil portraits of people that appear to emerge from layers within the canvas.
His incredibly life-like artworks feature torn black-and-white photographs that reveal faces beneath them, hands protruding from paper, and a man’s face peeking out from a hole in a cardboard box. Each piece exhibits Suda’s impressive technical proficiency in his use of color and shading to create realistic textures and lighting.
Suda explains, “I paint pictures. I’ve been born with an innate requirement to create, and by circumstance paint is the vehicle I have chosen. At the easel there is meditation, maybe some insanity that takes place. Sometimes I praise it, sometimes it’s my scapegoat. It’s a yin and yang thing going on. Whatever it is, there is a drive to get the cerebral into the physical without the ultimate concept ever fully unveiled; and that is why I paint.”
Check out his paintings below and view more on his website.
Wallflower
At a Moment
Vapor Trail
Amalgam
Embrace
Birth
Self with X-Ray Specs
[via My Modern Met and Fubiz, images via Joshua Suda]