These works belong to my new favorite contemporary artist, Tim Liddy. I not only love the fact that he realistically recreates the covers of some of the best board games ever made and looking at them sends me into paroxysms of sicky sweet nostalgia bordering on an overdose, but the fact that he paints the game boxes exactly as he finds them: with the tears and bends, yellowed tape, broken flaps and endless yucky stains left behind by some careless owner or their crummy kids, or both, to me is equally fabulous.
"Circa 1965 (Life)" 2005, oil, enamel, urethane on copper
"Circa 1959 (Risk)" 2007, oil, enamel on copper
"Circa 1970 (Ouija)" 2008, enamel, oil on copper
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