Intriguing-as-ever updates from brilliant New York based artist Alex Roulette

I can’t quite believe that it’s two years since we last featured Alex Roulette’s work on the site because he’s undoubtedly one of our favourite artists working today. The New York based painter creates scenes which “explore the blurred sense of time and place within memories” and he’s a master of the atmospheric. Looking at his paintings feels like beginning a dream when you’re pitched into a situation conjured up by your subconscious and yet instinctively know broadly where you are and what’s going on.

That’s not to say that Alex’s paintings are full of answers; just as in the dream world there’s leads to follow and innuendo to explore. The empty chair in Waiting below is a good example of this – is this person waiting for us? Or are we watching someone waiting for someone else?