Jeremy Mann (b. 1979) is a young (mid-30s) artist whose work disproves the modernist conceit of the 1950s that there was no point to realist or naturalist painting in the age of photography, and that abstraction was the viable Fine Arts alternative.

The link to a Fine Arts Connoisseur magazine piece featuring Mann is here, and a gallery web page regarding Mann is here. They contain snippets of biographical information.

Mann's style is a combination of sketchy, impressionistic backgrounds delivered using a variety of means for attacking a wood panel with paint along with tightly-painted details, especially in his depictions of beautiful women. He is also hugely prolific, as his own web site reveals. Click on the images below to enlarge.

Gallery

[Image]Bay Evening

[Image]Raised freeway

[Image]Hell's Kitchen

[Image]Rooftops in the Snow

[Image]Soho

[Image]The Muse

[Image]Undressing

[Image]Untitled (Grace)

[Image]The White Vanity

[Image]The Forgotten (Version Two - Neglect)