Connecticut-born artist
Damian Loeb is a photographer and painter and he's good at both.
Loeb's
early works were based on collages culled from varied sources,
including advertisements, magazines, television, and books. The
resulting paintings depict unsettling scenes rendered in a highly
representational, seamlessly multi-layered composition. The atmosphere
in the finished works expresses a dreamlike and surreal state, as if
painted from an emotional memory.
These
works however, gained him notoriety for his appropriation of images
from contemporary media sources, and he was taken to court various times
for copyright infringement. These early set-backs only fueled Loeb into
the upping the ante and creating a more breath taking, daring body of
work, one based in the world of sci-fi and horror.