Jacob Collins

is one of the great mod­ern real­ist painters. He’s a stu­dent of Ted Seth Jacobs, who also taught Den­nis Cheaney, who I’ve stud­ied with. What I par­tic­u­larly like about Jacob is his facil­ity in find­ing exactly the right com­bi­na­tions of light and color to cre­ate a mood. The work is finely-rendered with­out being fussy. It is informed by the work of the past, but is still clearly from the early 21^st cen­tury. In his best work he cre­ates a kind of visual hyper-reality, in a man­ner sim­i­lar to, but dif­fer­ent from, the work of Andrew Wyeth.

You can see his work at his web site. There’s some other good stuff at the Art Renewal Center.

I hope he doesn’t mind my post­ing a sam­ple of his work.