
past show: Grant Searcey Artwork booth combined Brentwood Spring Art Show / L.A. April 2011 (photo courtesy of Dennis Wilen / BrentwoodPatch.com)
excerpt from Brentwood Patch.com review by Mario Maximilian Muller
"...There were a couple of glimmers of originality though.
Grant Searcey had a modest booth of paintings that showed a facile use of medium. He’s certainly developed a style and a voice of his own.
Strongly influenced by a graphic novel aesthetic, the paintings of hybrid animals and plants have a wit and charm. Turtles, sea horses and frogs occupy the artist’s iconography. Kudos to the artist as well for not offering countless variations in all manner of digital prints as well.
The style most reminds me of the animation on the music video for Feel Good Inc. by the band Gorillaz. [See video.] There are also overtones of Sam Keith’s artwork done for the comic book called The Maxx in the early nineties. Good stuff." |