Limelight Agency, Celebrity Art and The Art of Celebrity

TOM EVERHART PAINTS PARTLY CLOUDY

I have wanted for many years to create works that share their brilliance but didn’t want to produce the same old sky landscape paintings that are still so common and offer nothing to learn. So, with Sparky’s (Charles Schulz) character of the flying ace, I found the perfect vehicle to present and demonstrate their beauty and power.

WEARING JIM DINE

"Like many others, I’ve always understood that there were more important reasons for making art than just art world approval. Nonetheless, from the beginning I couldn’t’ help but wonder how uncomfortable the fit was going to be in the very small art world’s established taste of what art was at the time."

EVERHART'S BUBBLE BATHS

It seems very much like the world is one big round bubble bath comprised of an endless amount of smaller bubbles that we each all live in. Within these bubbles, a meaningful expression through which the personality of the person and the broad outlook of a group are visibly similar...

Sleeping Beauties; The Have Mercy Paintings Tom Everhart's New Book

Tom Everhart’s newest (160 pages)book

EVERHART CELEBRATES TAHITIAN HIPSTERS

"My studio in Venice faces out to a neighborhood involved in an evolution of rapid visual change. Accompanying this change is a new sense of contemporary commercial fashion and style supported on the street by the constant new flow of very styled ‘Hipsters’."

OPIE OTTERSTAD - MLB'S ARTIST OF THE BOSTON RED SOX 2018 WORLD SERIES VICTORY

EVERHART'S Coup D'état

"When I first saw Sparky (Charles M. Schulz) draw, roughly in pencil and then finally in India ink, that beautiful struggle between his characters of Snoopy and Linus over his security blanket, I told him that it had a quality and meaningful expression through which the personality felt like some kind of a coup d’état event."

Holland Paints The Undefeated Champ, Gennady Golovkin:

Along with the expected announcements from representatives of both boxers, Golovkin’s manager Tom Loeffler introduced a familiar face to the gathered press and fans – famed sports and celebrity artist Stephen Holland. Holland was asked to join the afternoon events to unveil his newest painting – a portrait of Gennady Golovkin himself.

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