Featured Artist: Andy Kehoe

After months of eager anticipation, Where the Wild Things Are is finally in theaters, and it's pretty incredible; the kind of movie that sticks around in the back of your head and has you periodically feeling pangs of longing to return that world. So, when glancing through the online gallery of Andy Kehoe, an artist whose work I've long enjoyed, and who was featured in a previous post on the New York gallery Charming Wall, the immersive world of bizarrely wonderful creatures he creates had unusual resonance. Kehoe's world feels cohesive and consistent, populated by a cast of recurring characters captured in brief snapshots offering mere flickers of insight into an ongoing saga which reveals itself gradually with each passing image. There is a satisfying emotional complexity to his work, with the warm, richly textured Autumnal glow tempered by the creatures' slightly unsettling stoicism.