James Bullough (XX-XXI) - Breaking Point

\Artist: James Bullough (XX-XXI)
Technique: Silkscreen / Serigraph\Signature: Hand signed
James Bullough (American, b. 1978) Breaking Point 24 color screen print on 330 somerset paper Signed and numbered Edition of 75 Size : 94 x 75 cm (37 x 29 inches) James Bullough is an American born artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. His studio paintings, and huge monumentally scaled site-specific murals combine delicately handled realistic portraiture with harsh graphic distortion and abstraction. Inspired by the gritty urban graffiti he saw as a youth growing up in Washington, DC, Bullough harnessed it’s energy and edge while teaching himself more traditional realistic oil painting tech- niques by studying the Old Masters. Combining the momentum of the one and the technical precision of the other, his work is about staging com- pelling contrasts and juxtapositions. Wether working with spray paint on massive facades or oils in his studio, Bullough’s work strikes a delicate balance between realistic portraiture and stylized distortions, straddling the space between traditional and contemporary.