"Celtic Girl", Oil on panel, 18"x24"

Paul Torres
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"Wild Cool West", acrylic & Oil on panel, 24"x48"

"Wild Cool West @ Pig Eyed Pete's Saloon", Size: 24"x48"


close up, 24x48



Hi Friends,
I am coming along on this Work, Medium : color pencil, acrylic, sand, cigarrete ash, tradionally home made Oils with resins. If you are interested in it, or any others from my albums here on FB, or my website, feel free to contact me, and or if you have any comments on this work, about the color palette, composition, theme etc.. I'd also appreciate that as well, have a pleasant day (^-^)


*Coming West , was not easy during the 1800's. The gold rush in 1848 brought people here to California from all over the world,including Europe, latin america , Australia, China, and pioneers and frontier people from the East, they had to travel along side rivers,facing the elements, like wild life, etc..or travel across Panama on canoes, often they died of malaria and scurvy or both... the sick were often left behind. Colorado was a key point in coming this way. In this painting , i have included fur trappers , Outlaws, gold diggers ,which it shows them having a good time, and sometimes not so good. At the drop of a hat, you could get called for a fight back then, very little law and order if any ...it was a great way to start over, so the term Califonia Dream came from this 49ers.....


*What the twin territories of Oklahoma and the Indian Nations were full of in the later part of the 19th century. Known as the Robbers Roost, the territories became a safe haven for some of the old west's most desperate villains. With no law west of St. Louis and no God west of Fort Smith, Ark. the remnants of the Missouri Border Raiders and Texas Freebooters found the territories a safe place to conduct their illegal business from. Throw in the cowboys who were fast becoming extinct with the opening of the Oklahoma Territory to homesteaders and the invention of barb wire, and the homesteaders that sank every dime of their life's saving into the risky and often heartbreaking business of farming on the Oklahoma prairie, and you have an ample supply of desperate characters who were willing to attempt anything to acquire their fortunes, so california became sort of another safe haven for a while for outcasts and people seeking a new life, thanks have a pleasant day ^-^





Paul Torres
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Paul Torres Solo Show : "Idiosyncratic Behavior" @ Grand Central Art Center, Sept 5th

Hi Friends,

You are cordially invited to attend my Solo Show "Idiosyncratic Behavior" I am really excited about this Event, I hope you can make it out, Bring Family and Friends, please share widely, thanks so much (^-^)




WHERE: 125 N Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92701

WHEN : Sept 5th , 7-10pm



Paul Torres

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Paul Torres-exploring the Superficially Grotesque

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Paul Torres-exploring the Superficially Grotesque



Pop surrealist Paul Torres, was a pop surrealist-even before the term was coined-as his long term friend-Lance Richlin will attest, which I guess makes him one of the Godfathers of the movement. On evidence of his extensive cannon, his proliferation certainly earns him the moniker.

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The themes however, offer a more abject and detached form than the claustrophobic limitations of such supine category,even if the bombshells with scud missile breasts, and pneumatic pumped hunks in faded tats, inform the diet of comic books Paul ingested in his native Chile.

Its the corners of the canvases that discern with their disquiet-decapitated heads and disembodied limbs, used syringes, condoms and coke bottles scattered like junk food tokens of psychopathic, psychosexual Americana. The swinging pendulous breasts of old wet hags in shopping marts, with their parasitic screaming bastards in tow-looking for all the world like a modern day fabled Snow white and obligatory dwarves of the age. Its the kind of superficially grotesque, Toulouse Lautrec might be elucidating, if he lived on the West Coast today-although I hasten to add that Paul is much taller than the diminutive, absinthe, swilling Frenchman.

Be it long-shadowed scenes of sun-drenched Venice beach or seamy downtown LA, his work peels back the lip gloss of the West coast, revealing the rotting yellow teeth barred beneath.






All artwork copyright of Paul Torres ©-reproduced with kind permission
Posted by davidgoughart at 8:11 PM
Labels: america, Paul Torres, Pop Surrealism

ART SHOW : TOMORROW NIGHT "OVERDOSE" at COPRONASON GALLERY

ART SHOW : TOMORROW NIGHT "OVERDOSE" at COPRONASON GALLERY

***Dear Friends and Art Lovers ****

***JOIN US FOR THIS FANTASTIC AND AMAZING GROUP SHOW*****

***ESCAPE FROM THE MUNDANE*****

** GREAT ART, DRINKS, CONVERSATION*****

**WITH AMAZING NEW WORKS BY THESE CREAM OF THE CROP ARTISTS******

****COME OUT AND ENJOY , DON'T MISS IT *****

WHEN: Saturday, April 04, 2009 At 08:00:00 PM

WHERE: Copro Gallery 2525 Michigan Ave, T5 Santa Monica, CA 90404 Gallery Name: Copro Gallery

Opening Reception, Saturday April 4 - 8:00 – 11:30 p.m.



Dates: Exhibit runs – April 4 – April 25, 2009

WEBSITE : http://www.copronason.com




"Westward Ho", oil on panel, 22x26 $ 900 by Paul Torres


WEBSITE : http://www.copronason.com
E-Mail: CoproGallery@live.com

WHAT: Hi-Fructose "Overdose" group art exhibition


Contact: Gary Pressman, Gallery Director Copro Gallery

Hi-Fructose Magazine and Copro Gallery are proud to showcase an incredible array of artists extraordinaire in "Overdose" the Hi-Fructose group art exhibition at Copro Gallery in Santa Monica. Hi-Fructose Collected Edition box sets will be available in limited quantities at the show and Greg "Craola" Simkins, Gary Baseman, Joe Ledbetter, Brian McCarty, Attaboy, and more special guests will be signing them. Brooklyn's own, "Hearts Challenger" the guerilla style good-time ice cream truck will be on hand to give out free ice cream and candy and Hi-Fructose Vol.11 will premier at the show before the issue goes on sale in stores or online.


Limited numbers of free issues and a free poster will be availiable at the show only! More suprises TBA

Hi-Fructose "Under the Counter Culture" quarterly magazine was founded by artists, Attaboy and Annie Owens in 2005 and is published by Ouchfactory Yumclub Publishing. Hi-Fructose transcends genre and trend, assuring our readers thorough coverage and content that is relevant, informative and original. We showcase a mix of underground artists, emerging and rediscovered counter cultures and awe inspiring spectacles from around the world.

Each beautifully de signed, full color issue goes beyond the comfort zone of the "alternative" norm to deliver a diverse cross section of the most influential, genre bending and defining subversive art of our time as well as breaking new and amazing talents world wide, bring friends, colleagues and family everybody is welcome :) See you there.


CLICK HERE TO SEE PREVIEW OF "OVERDOSE"
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WHO:

Alex Garcia Alex Pardee Andrew Hem Annie Owens Anthony Ausgang Attaboy Bob Dob Brandi Milne Brandt Peters Brendan Danielsson Chet Zar Chris Berens Chris Owens Chris Peters Chris Scarborough Greg "Craola" Simkins Damon Soule Dan May Dan Quintana David Correia Ekundayo Eric Fortune Erik Alos Femke Hiemstra Germs Glenn Barr Gris Grimly Jason D'Aquino Joe Vaux Josh Keyes Kathie Olivas Kenji Kokamoto KMNDZ Kris Kuksi Kukula Lola Luke Chueh Makiko Sugawa Mars-1 Martin Wittfooth McBess Mia Michael Page Naoto Hattori Nathan Spoor Robert Hardgrave Sam Gibbons Scott Musgrove Sergei Aparin Shag Skot Olsen Thomas Han Tin Tom Haubrick Travis Louie Viktor Safonkin Vince Cacciotti Yoskay Yamamoto Yosuke Ueno Yoko D’holbachie Paul Torres


Paul Torres
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The Meaning of Art

The imagination is our most mysterious aspect. It connects our conscious with our subconscious. It allows us to explore our inner self and fill that urge to understand our ever changing body, mind and universe. It is the most important part of every one of us.

"When it comes to eras like Paris the 1920s, Berlin in the 1930s and Greenwich Village in the 1940s, you saw scenarios where composers boozed it up with painters, dancers traded ideas with poets and
everyone was familiar with each other's work.


Now the fertile ground is here in Los Angeles "

La Luz de Jesus : "Everything But The Kitschen Sync"12th annual Group Show, March 6th

Paul Torres
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New Painting : " Marcella" $95 available

Marcella, Oil, $ 95 available Free Shipping in the US"





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