Nathan Spoor Truth Automaton Print

Nathan Spoor has a new release with 1xRUN and he pays tribute to Hunter S Thompson in his Truth Automaton print.

"This piece exists as a fun exercise of me being influenced by the ideas, words and pictures from some pretty radical creative thinkers. Most of the characters in the piece are manifestations of Ralph Steadman’s reactions to Hunter S. Thompson’s wild Gonzo persona and my imaginings of how they would all huddle together around a core value in Hunter’s work – the eternal search for truth.

When I created this piece I was inspired by the double-feature articles I was writing for Juxtapoz last year, a cover feature on Steadman and a piece on Hunter. I researched for about three months, reading everything I could find, looking at all the images, articles, documentaries and interviews I could find. I collected editions of both guys’ books as part of the research, trying to find first printings or hard to find books of Steadman’s art so I could hold something with that original energy – it might sound silly but I’m old fashioned in some ways. So while I was doing the research and reading, I was also coming up with ideas and did a decent sized piece about the collaborative madness that Steadman and Hunter shared." - Nathan Spoor

On sale now at 1xRUN.com

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Nathan Spoor The Glass Menagerie Print Release Details

Nathan Spoor is back with 1xRUN today with a wild looking print titled The Glass Menagerie that will have looking at it for hours.

" The main goal of this piece was to make a work with lots of grand overtures and activity that overwhelms the majority of the piece, yet stays in balance overall. The actual focus of the work is the small girl standing on the bridge on the lower left of the piece. She’s holding a spyglass and is looking to the distant horizon on the right lower portion. The magician character (the guys biting each other with the yellow heads and serpentine arms) is holding a magnifying glass that is highlighting an umbrella that is very small on the far horizon of the grassy area. Essentially, there is a lot going on in her world, and she has the calm foresight to look past all the beauty and madness to spot the thing she needs to focus on." - Nathan Spoor

 On sale at NOON EST Tuesday at 1xRUN.com

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Nathan Spoor The Gathering Print Release

1xRUN welcomes back one of the fan favorite artists Nathan Spoor today with his newest print The Gathering.

"I think the important highlight of this piece is that it has a positive and joyous energy. The main idea of this painting is a moment of revelation, or culmination of something that the inhabitants have been waiting for. The main characters of the piece are the two items that have been constant symbols throughout as this entire series has grown: the gift and the umbrella. The gifts are objects that hold memories of the female character's past, present and future in the series. We never know which it will be, but the gifts have the ability to contain those moments and to transport her to another point in time. The umbrella is an item that appears so show the main characters (male or female) which paths are safe for traveling. These are being held inside a glass dome, and seem to have been there for some time. We come into this scene at the moment where there is a gathering of the land’s inhabitants, and a message is being delivered (from the balloon character top left area) that will signal a change for everyone."- Nathan Spoor

The Gathering is a 27 x 16 Inches Archival Pigment Print on 300gsm Museum Natural Fine Art Paper with a signed and numbered edition of 50

On sale today at NOON EDT at 1xRUN.com

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Nathan Spoor Rites of Passage Print Release Details

The guys at 1xRUN are excited to welcome back regular Nathan Spoor as he brings us his detail laden Rites of Passage. This RUN highlights yet another amazing artist that was part of (and curated) the recent Suggestivism Exhibition at Bold Hype Gallery.

Rites of Passage is 13 x 22 Inches Archival Pigment Print on 330gsm Fine Art Paper with an edition of 40

This RUN comes signed, numbered and with a Certificate of Authenticity from Nathan Spoor and 1xRUN.

On Sale today at Noon EDT at 1xRUN.com

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Nathan Spoor Migration Art Print on sale today

There is now this neutral ground in painting and contemporary illustration where elements of fantasy are colored with an emotional temper that seems neither happy nor sad to a beguiled viewer. The two key visuals in this piece by Nathan Spoor are dimensional opposites. We have an elevated island with towers and turrets in the background; on a promontory (or another island?) slightly more visible in the foreground is the figure of a child holding a balloon. It would be tempting to accept all of this as simply a charming variation on certain familiar themes tackled by a host of other painters in the past (Wyeth's "Christina's World, for instance), but Spoor has added a third motif - an umbrella framed within one of the empty spires - which arrests our attention and sends us back to contemplative musings.

All prints are Signed & Numbered by the Artist and come with a Certificate of Authenticity from 1xRUN.

17 x 20 inch Glclee on 330gsm 100% archival cotton rag paper.

On sale today at noon EDT at 1xRun.com

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