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Allegory of Music (After Boucher)  17" x 22"  Digitally Produced Print

Allegory of Music (After Boucher)

17" x 22"

Digitally Produced Print

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Candy Go Lightly, 2015 38” x 38” Mixed Media

Candy Go Lightly, 2015 (SOLD)

38” x 38”

Mixed Media

Cupid Conspiracy, (After Boucher), 2022 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Cupid Conspiracy, (After Boucher), 2022 (SOLD)

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

 

Diana After The Hunt II, (After Boucher), 2022 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Diana After The Hunt II, (After Boucher), 2022

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

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Diana And Liz After The Hunt, 2016-2023 40” x 60” Mixed Media

Diana And Liz After The Hunt, 2016 - 2023 (SOLD)

40” x 60”

Mixed Media

Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, (After Fragonard), 2016 - 2023  48” x 48”  Mixed Media

Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, (After Fragonard), 2016 - 2023 (SOLD)

48” x 48”

Mixed Media

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Leda And The Swan, (After Boucher), 2023 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Leda And The Swan, (After Boucher), 2023

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

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Marilyn; The Awful Truth  31" x 25"  Mixed Media

Marilyn; The Awful Truth

31" x 25"

Mixed Media

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Music And Dance, (After Boucher), 2022 17” x 30” Digitally Produced Print On Acrylic Panel

Music And Dance, (After Boucher), 2022 (SOLD)

17” x 30”

Digitally Produced Print On Acrylic Panel

Spring, (After Boucher), 2022 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Spring, (After Boucher), 2022

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

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Summer, (After Boucher)  13" x 19"  Acrylic Print

Summer, (After Boucher)

13" x 19"

Acrylic Print

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Summer I, (After Boucher), 2022 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Summer I, (After Boucher), 2022

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

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Summer II (After Boucher), 2023 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Summer II (After Boucher), 2023

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

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The Rape Of Europa, (After Boucher And Vasarely), 2022 13” x 19” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

The Rape Of Europa, (After Boucher And Vasarely), 2022

13” x 19”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

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The Toilette Of Venus, (After Boucher And Morris Louis), 2022 13” x 19” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

The Toilette Of Venus, (After Boucher And Morris Louis), 2022

13” x 19”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

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Untitled  45" x 33.5" x 2"  Mixed Media

Untitled, (After Fontana), 2015

45" x 33.5" x 2"

Mixed Media

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Venus Disarming Cupid, (After Boucher And Twombly), 2022 13” x 19” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Venus Disarming Cupid, (After Boucher And Twombly), 2022

13” x 19”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

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Why Do Artists Make Skate Decks?  54.5" x 43.5" x 2".  Mixed Media

Why Do Artists Make Skate Decks?, 2015

54.5" x 43.5" x 2"

Mixed Media

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Allegory of Music (After Boucher)  17" x 22"  Digitally Produced Print

Allegory of Music (After Boucher)

17" x 22"

Digitally Produced Print

Candy Go Lightly, 2015 38” x 38” Mixed Media

Candy Go Lightly, 2015 (SOLD)

38” x 38”

Mixed Media

Cupid Conspiracy, (After Boucher), 2022 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Cupid Conspiracy, (After Boucher), 2022 (SOLD)

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

 

Diana After The Hunt II, (After Boucher), 2022 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Diana After The Hunt II, (After Boucher), 2022

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Diana And Liz After The Hunt, 2016-2023 40” x 60” Mixed Media

Diana And Liz After The Hunt, 2016 - 2023 (SOLD)

40” x 60”

Mixed Media

Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, (After Fragonard), 2016 - 2023  48” x 48”  Mixed Media

Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, (After Fragonard), 2016 - 2023 (SOLD)

48” x 48”

Mixed Media

Leda And The Swan, (After Boucher), 2023 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Leda And The Swan, (After Boucher), 2023

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Marilyn; The Awful Truth  31" x 25"  Mixed Media

Marilyn; The Awful Truth

31" x 25"

Mixed Media

Music And Dance, (After Boucher), 2022 17” x 30” Digitally Produced Print On Acrylic Panel

Music And Dance, (After Boucher), 2022 (SOLD)

17” x 30”

Digitally Produced Print On Acrylic Panel

Spring, (After Boucher), 2022 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Spring, (After Boucher), 2022

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Summer, (After Boucher)  13" x 19"  Acrylic Print

Summer, (After Boucher)

13" x 19"

Acrylic Print

Summer I, (After Boucher), 2022 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Summer I, (After Boucher), 2022

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Summer II (After Boucher), 2023 17” x 22” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Summer II (After Boucher), 2023

17” x 22”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

The Rape Of Europa, (After Boucher And Vasarely), 2022 13” x 19” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

The Rape Of Europa, (After Boucher And Vasarely), 2022

13” x 19”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

The Toilette Of Venus, (After Boucher And Morris Louis), 2022 13” x 19” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

The Toilette Of Venus, (After Boucher And Morris Louis), 2022

13” x 19”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Untitled  45" x 33.5" x 2"  Mixed Media

Untitled, (After Fontana), 2015

45" x 33.5" x 2"

Mixed Media

Venus Disarming Cupid, (After Boucher And Twombly), 2022 13” x 19” Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Venus Disarming Cupid, (After Boucher And Twombly), 2022

13” x 19”

Digitally Produced Print, Edition 1 of 5

Why Do Artists Make Skate Decks?  54.5" x 43.5" x 2".  Mixed Media

Why Do Artists Make Skate Decks?, 2015

54.5" x 43.5" x 2"

Mixed Media

"I appreciate the Rococo for its extravagance and theatricality, as it appeals to my love of kitsch."

- Stuart Netsky

Stuart Netsky - Artists - Gross McCleaf Gallery

Why Do Artists Make Skate Decks?

54.5" x 43.5" x 2".

Mixed Media

I am a conceptual artist making paintings, mixed media sculptures, prints and other objects. My practice is an investigation into the inundation of imagery we are all collectively bombarded by, and how it reflects the absurdity I experience in our contemporary culture.

My work is made in distinct series, creating a crazy quilt of pictorial eclecticism that obscures our ability to make sense of the image, acting as a metaphor for the confusion and shifting dichotomies in social interactions.

Digital images speak to our technologically driven world and reflect the temporal paradox in pop culture whereby the past is brought to the present, the present to the past. I digitally appropriate art historical images with those from film and popular culture, juxtaposed with psychedelic and floral patterns and mix them all together. Francois Boucher and Gerhard Richter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Gene Davis, Bridget Riley, Nicholas Krushenick and Jean-Antoine Watteau, among others - the rococo and abstraction, op art and pop art, anime and realism, and the psychedelic all come together, layered, spliced, and distorted. I appreciate the Rococo for its extravagance and theatricality, as it appeals to my love of kitsch. Paintings, prints and sculptures, collaged with cakes, printed skate decks and fake fur create an extravagant hodge-podge of seemingly disparate imagery and materials that evoke the psychosexual.

Film imagery is another element important to my work. I grew up comforted by the classic Hollywood films and actors I reference in my work. As a gay adolescent, I escaped into film and identified with the women in what are considered "women’s films". Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, and femme fatales, Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth...idealized much like the goddesses in Rococo painting. I love them all, and sometimes view my practice as a drag display operating within this time I live in while embracing nostalgia and romanticism for their tender and universal sensibilities.

"I digitally appropriate art historical images with those from film and popular culture, juxtaposed with psychedelic and floral patterns and mix them all together. Francois Boucher and Gerhard Richter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Gene Davis, Bridget Riley, Nicholas Krushenick and Jean-Antoine Watteau, among others - the rococo and abstraction, op art and pop art, anime and realism, and the psychedelic all come together, layered, spliced, and distorted."

- Stuart Netsky

Stuart Netsky - Artists - Gross McCleaf Gallery

Between Two Worlds

16" x 9" x 9"

Mixed Media

Stuart Jan Netsky was born in Philadelphia, PA. In 1977 through 1983, Netsky was the President and head designer of his own millinery design company in New York City. In 1983, he received a Bachelor of Science in Design and Merchandising from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. Since 1984, Netsky has been pursuing his career as a professional artist. He received a Master of Art in Art Education from Philadelphia College of Art in 1986 and went on to receive a Master of Fine Art in sculpture from Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA in 1990.

Netsky was an Adjunct Professor at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Jefferson University.

Stuart Netsky has had solo exhibitions of his work at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Richard Anderson, NYC, Locks Gallery, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, and a retrospective at the Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts. He has also shown in innumerable group shows nationally and internationally. In 1995, he received the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. His work is in the collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, as well as the Johnson and Johnson Collection and many private collections. 

Stuart Netsky - Artists - Gross McCleaf Gallery

Untitled

45″ x 33.5″ x 2″

Mixed Media

Video

'Artist Stuart Netsky, Beauty, Love, and Excess'

Stuart Netsky, a 1995 Pew Fellow, has been a presence in the Philadelphia art scene for decades, and I finally got to meet him at his March 11th opening at Gross McCleaf. His new work, which combines the Rococo with psychedelia, is complex, beautiful and fabulously excessive!