Thomas Allen

I find this image sublime. Very cool. Reminds me of a painting I'd seen at the MFA (cannot remember the name) of men on a raft after their boat had been hit. The endless gray that darkens at a horizon line here seems a mirror of the other painting with its icy blue-green translucent strokes of paint, evocative of the salty Atlantic, full of dark, forboding barrels of cloud with barely a shimmer of light.

I stumbled onto this artist after visiting a blog (thanks, Queerty). Together with an old paperback, an X-acto knife, and his camera, Thomas Allen makes images that are, as he says, all about creating 'false realities'. In many of his works, the false realities he stumbles on is one of outmoded but still desirable masculinity that were as much a part of these vintage stories as they are historical elements of americana. I admit the men on these old books are pretty hot, even if (or maybe because) they're stylized distillations of unattainable manliness.
But I digress. This is about art. Really. Visit here to see moreThomas Allen works.