Jeff Bartels
Pop Surrealism Oil on canvas
About
Jeff Bartels is a Canadian artist born in 1973 in Montreal, Quebec, currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. Renowned for his hyperrealistic oil paintings infused with surreal elements, he explores themes of nostalgia, memory, and the human condition. His meticulous works blend pop culture references with urban landscapes, often using 3D modeling software to construct impossible scenes that capture intricate details from bygone eras, such as 1979-2001 in his Urban Glitch series. Pieces like '1983' require hundreds of hours, incorporating nods to art history figures like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Damien Hirst.[1][2][4]
Hyperrealism combined with surrealism and pop surrealism
Selected Exhibitions
- Five And Under at Arcadia Contemporary
- Group exhibition at Suwon iPark Museum of Art, South Korea
- Studio 561 in Toronto