SoLost: Bo Bartlett's Magic World

Bo Bartlett is an American original. A realist painter with a deliciously surreal touch, the Columbus, Georgia-born artist was a protégé and life-long friend of Andrew Wyeth. His haunting and epic tableaus evoke a Hopper-like sense of longing and mystery combined with a Lynchian-cocktail of menace, beauty and stranger-then-fiction reality.

A natural traveler with an entire planet of subject matter to pick from, it might surprise some to learn that Bartlett chooses to spend several months each year painting in the modest Columbus, Georgia, home he grew up in -- in fact to paint in the very bedroom that was his as a child. But it is in fact the place where Bartlett goes each winter and where some of his most vital work is born.

"It's a magic world," says Bo, and indeed it is. Come see where some of it is born...
Shot & Directed by: Dave Anderson
Editing and Postproduction: Jonathan Childs
Motion Graphics: TJ McCoy
Piano Performance: Betsy Eby
Executive Producer: Warwick Sabin
SoLost is an Oxford American production.
(c) 2012 The Oxford American Literary Project

[@linooliveira1353]

Parabéns por seu trabalho de pintura.

[@cherylm1982]

I love when he says, "It's a magic world."

[@emayemay27]

David H.--Come down to Columbus, and we'll go there. You need to get out of Arkansas once in a while and experience the true South. How are you? Ken