| In late 1996, artist
Andrew
Lakey commenced an enormously prodigious painting
cycle that continued (in its first phase at least) until November
1997, and which resulted in thousands of dazzlingly colorful
works of art. What began as a methodological color study using
nature icons became an obsessive compulsive journey into a
vast and phantasmagoric world of enchanting and utterly original
new form factors of botanica and beings detailed in sumptuous
color and signature line work.
Andrew Lakey’s extraordinary subjects in Brilliant
Nature were derived using an improvisational process
employing the unconscious, his memory and imagination. The
sheer volume of subjects painted in this collection –
including flowers of every type, exotic fish, mythical birds,
idyllic animals, magical crickets, psychedelic snails and
countless otherworldly flora and fauna – represent a
whole taxonomy of an artist’s known and imagined world.
Lakey does not simply sample his universe, he exhausts it
completely.
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For Night Multimedia.
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