The thing about Gene Speck’s art is that, although it’s been dubbed realism, it goes beyond photorealism; it becomes your reality. Once you see one of his paintings, you aren’t just looking at a picture; you’re in another time and space. Speck’s heart and aesthetic nature is inured in a simpler time, when fewer people roamed the earth and had the space to do so. As a result, his paintings reach out and touch the viewer with palpable beauty and reality that in our hurried and fragmented lives seem to be long lost. Speck’s ability to immerse himself in his
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