Steve Rosendale 'Motel Pool Vacancy' painting

Steve Rosendale 'Motel Pool Vacancy' paintingThis motel is the kind of place that a hero and his heroine would cruise up to. Its where our protagonist would take refuge, sipping sangria beside the pool. In his practice, Steve Rosendale sifts through hundreds of film stills, searching for an evocation. Here, in the golden hour of yesteryear, he finds just that. Rosendales work draws upon the collective memories of popular culture. He sets up enthralling mise en scenes, elongating a flicker of

a European flower opens above the alienesque Australian landscape

'Villages over Abu Dhabi' 2013

titled and inscribed in pencil in margin below image: P/P Out to Sea Rick Amor 91

fall under the spell of the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic eye

This original charcoal and pastel on paper

Dimensions: 121 x 161 cm

and internal coherence

In ‘Crab II’

Blackman and classical art

Image Size: 10 x 13 cm

which itself is a play on Leonardo DaVinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’

'Great Western Tiers III'