One of our favorite painters that we have learned about over the past year is Romanian artist Dan Voinea, who mixes both a classical realist style with an almost performance like character connstruction. Voinea just opened a solo show, A Momentary Rise of Reason, at Beers.Lambert Contemporary in London. As the gallery notes, " Yet while technically realistic and anatomically correctly proportioned, the works are characterized as much by their apparent lack of realism: their fantastical tendencies, collapsing or nondescript environments and preference for magic realist narratives. "

After seeing fantastic exhibitions recently with two of the finest portrait painters we can think of, Lucian Freud and Alice Neel, we have been attracted to great works from portrait painters. Dan Voinea's work fell into our laps this morning, and we love his suspension of belief, his capturing of movement and timeless style in this new series of paintings.