Mark Greenwalt

Though I am strictly a sculptor I admire the grotesquely beautiful drawings of Mark Greenwalt.  I love the combination of the idealistic anatomy with the deformities of extra limbs.  I love his use of color and texture to bring his figures to life.

Here is an insight to the content of his work:

"I use various drawing media to synergistically combine complex creative dualities via allegorical human figures.  These might include the tension between reason and intuition, chaos and order, or the beautiful and the grotesque.   Although these figures are often derived from anatomical sources, they seldom represent biologically living beings, but instead represent a shift away from forms occurring independently in Nature and toward forms highly dependent on Culture.

My figures often directly and indirectly reference this era’s recorded wealth of culturally mediated figuration – from master drawings to stuffed animals, from anatomical illustrations to animistic tribal effigies. In my cyclic processes of forming, deforming, and reforming, I appreciate the role of growth and decay in the creative process and reflect on the absurdities of spiritual receptivity in a mechanistic world."

-http://www.markgreenwalt.com/