Description
‘Living from the End’ by Ian C. Hess
Artist: Ian C. Hess
Title: ‘Living from the End’
Medium: Acrylic, gold, and Flashe paint on wood panel
Dimensions: 18″ x 18″ x 2″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2025
Artwork Will Ship From: USA
About the Artwork:
Living from the End denotes a state of mind that does not seek to be in a space of abundance – it occupies one. Using background references from Renaissance paintings, I placed a figure in a state of continual revelation. As if the sun was setting within – emanating outwards. In this state of constant revelation – he is living from the end & clad in cloth marking a reverence for what is beyond. – Ian C. Hess
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Ian C. Hess explores the beauty of brokenness expressed through the shattered, graceful, and failed myths of yesterday. While coinciding with the Japanese Philosophies of Wabi Sabi (acceptance of transience and imperfection) and Kintsugi (treats breakage as beauty to be emphasized), he aims to reinvent aspects of these categories into present tense embodied forms, adorned in the textures and idioms of our time. The central theme of portraiture expressed through the means of broken Grecko – Roman busts serve as the foundational constant amongst the myriad of techniques, and varied perspectives of the human ideal. The pieces work to synthesize a plurality of elements comprised of the past and present with universally recognized imagery within each painting as a specific locality that brings with it a generative power. All myth was once personal experience.