Go Figure, 9798875000973
Hardcover
Eye-popping paintings: characters caught in surreal social ecosystems, fighting for individuality.
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Go Figure

figurative social surrealist paintings

$69.68

  • Hardcover

    96 pages

  • Release Date

    3 June 2025

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Summary

Go Figure: A Social Surrealist Journey in Vibrant Color

Go Figure collects 44 ‘social surrealist’ figurative paintings, spanning 1987-2023. All are in eye-popping color: many depict a crowd in observational tableaux, each figure a character by virtue of dress, body language, and interactions with each other, animals, and their setting.

Other paintings reflect Colwell’s wide travels, and still others are surreal - such as ‘Junior and the Legs’ (2023), which shows a young man …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9798875000973
Author:Guy Colwell
Publisher:Fantagraphics
Imprint:Fantagraphics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:96
Release Date:3 June 2025
Weight:0g
Dimensions:279mm x 279mm
About The Author

Guy Colwell

Guy Colwell is a painter and comics artist best known for his bestselling underground comix series Inner City Romance (collected into a volume published by Fantagraphics in 2015). He worked extensively as an illustrator, cartoonist and color artist for underground newspapers and publishers from the 1970s into the 1990s, between sabbaticals for environmental research travel and social action. His other books include Street Scenes (2015), In Fox’s Forest (2016), and Doll (2019). He lives in Berkeley, CA.

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