FEATURING EYES AS AGENTS OF ENTROPY.

FEATURING EYES AS AGENTS OF ENTROPY.

FEATURING EYES AS AGENTS OF ENTROPY.

San Francisco-based painter EMILIO VILLALBA creates abstract portraits in oil paint inspired by the precision of master works from the past, as well as the contemporary human condition. The paintings of this Californian artist feature eyes as agents of entropy, crowning jewels in faces and heads that melt and devolve before the viewer. VILLALBA’s works are destabilising: the viewer finds himself observing a totally white canvas, on which are painted ever-watching eyes and other pieces of body. Disfigured objects, the eyes in his paintings stare back at the viewer "without apology for their misshapen-ness, lilting wrongly toward an on-looker in fierce, guiltless apathy, more landscape than figure."