BEN TOUR - Portfolio 3.12.2010

Canadian-born artist Ben Tour (b. 1977) channels a dark, often haunting sense of humanism in his work.

His observations deftly inform his paintings, enabling him to capture the essence of a character, and then distort that view any way he desires. Frenetic lines, swaths of color, and intimate angles all convey a sense that Tour may not only be drawing inspiration from the lives of strangers he observes, but manifesting his own personal experiences as well.