{"product_id":"four-eyes-john-gurbacs","title":"Four Eyes | John Gurbacs | Original Oil Painting","description":"\u003c!-- VIRTUAL VIEWING BANNER --\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr auto; align-items: center; gap: 0; margin-bottom: 3px; font-family: 'Outfit',system-ui,sans-serif;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"background: #111111; padding: 14px 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 9px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.45); font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 3px;\"\u003eCan't visit in person?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSchedule a private virtual viewing with Marcolina, from anywhere in the world.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/form-private-viewing\" style=\"display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; background: #FF1E8A; color: #ffffff; padding: 14px 24px; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 0.16em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; height: 100%;\"\u003eRequest a\u003cbr\u003eVirtual Viewing →\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"background: #FF1E8A; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 16px; font-family: 'Outfit',system-ui,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.12em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\u003ePayment plans available  ·  Ships worldwide  ·  Certificate of Authenticity included  ·  \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/form-private-viewing\" style=\"color: #ffffff; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eContact us to discuss options\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: 'Outfit',system-ui,sans-serif; max-width: 680px; color: #333333; line-height: 1.85;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; color: #ff1e8a; letter-spacing: 0.04em; margin-bottom: 16px;\"\u003eOriginal oil painting by John Gurbacs · Available at Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery, Tampa, Florida · Ships worldwide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:15px; font-weight:300; margin-bottom:20px;\"\u003eFour wolf faces surround a figure shown from behind, dressed in red, hands caught mid-motion adjusting the waistband. Each wolf occupies its own corner of the canvas, eyes and muzzles pressing in from every side, close enough that none of them can be mistaken for background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size:15px; font-weight:300; margin-bottom:28px;\"\u003eRed clothing, wolves, a figure who can't see what's watching her, the reference sits close enough to Little Red Riding Hood that it doesn't need spelling out. But the painting never actually says who the menace is. The fairy tale assumes the wolves are the danger and the girl in red is the target, that's the reading everyone brings in automatically. Nothing in the composition confirms it. The wolves could just as easily be watching, not hunting, and the figure in red, the one thing actually moving in the scene, hands active, in control, could be the one the painting is actually warning you about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #999999; width: 40%;\"\u003eArtist\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 500;\"\u003eJohn Gurbacs\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #999999;\"\u003eMedium\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 500;\"\u003eOil on Canvas, Thin Wooden Frame\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #999999;\"\u003eDimensions\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 500;\"\u003e20 1\/2 x 24 1\/2 in\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #999999;\"\u003eCertificate\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 500;\"\u003eCertificate of Authenticity included\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #999999;\"\u003eShipping\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 500;\"\u003eShips worldwide with full insurance\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8; border-bottom: 1px solid #E8E8E8;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #999999;\"\u003ePayment\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding: 10px 0; color: #111111; font-weight: 500;\"\u003ePayment plans available\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.16em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; color: #111111; margin-bottom: 12px;\"\u003eCollector's Note\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; color: #444444; line-height: 1.85; margin-bottom: 28px;\"\u003eThe most narrative piece in this group, leaning on a story everyone already knows to do quiet, unsettling work without needing to explain itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.16em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; color: #111111; margin-bottom: 12px;\"\u003eAcquisition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; color: #444444; line-height: 1.85; margin-bottom: 28px;\"\u003eAvailable through Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery with worldwide shipping, full insurance, and professional art packaging. Payment plans available. Private viewings by appointment in Tampa, Florida. Virtual viewings available for collectors anywhere in the world. \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/form-private-viewing\" style=\"color: #ff1e8a; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eContact us to inquire.\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/become-a-collector\" style=\"color: #ff1e8a; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eNew to collecting? Read our collector guide →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; color: #777777; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 28px; font-style: italic;\"\u003eA standard shipping rate is charged at checkout. Once your work is packed, we calculate the actual shipping cost for its size and destination. If there is a difference, we will follow up to either invoice the additional amount or refund the difference, whichever applies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"background: #F5F0EB; padding: 20px 24px; border-left: 3px solid #FF1E8A; margin-bottom: 28px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #555555; font-weight: 300; margin: 0; font-style: italic;\"\u003e\"We can see that the branches of a tree are similar in form to a bolt of lightning, or that rings of Saturn resemble the rings of water in a puddle. Yet they exist separately in time, space, and scale. There exists an order of continuity throughout the different realms.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #888888; margin-top: 6px;\"\u003eJohn Gurbacs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border: none; border-top: 1px solid #E8E8E8; margin: 8px 0 28px;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.16em; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; color: #111111; margin-bottom: 16px;\"\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; color: #444444; line-height: 1.85; margin-bottom: 14px;\"\u003eJohn Gurbacs is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow with over fifty years of continuous practice exploring the fractal geometry hidden inside nature, the recurring patterns that connect a tree branch to a bolt of lightning, or the rings of Saturn to the rings of water in a puddle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; color: #444444; line-height: 1.85; margin-bottom: 14px;\"\u003eHis process begins in the field. He photographs construction debris, tropical foliage, microscopic patterns, and underwater scenes, then builds collages until a connection reveals itself between forms and scales. From there he draws, then paints, some pieces taking months to complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; color: #444444; line-height: 1.85; margin-bottom: 14px;\"\u003eHis work sits in the permanent collections of the Tampa Museum of Art, the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, the Polk Museum of Art, and the USF Contemporary Art Museum, along with commissions for Tampa General Hospital, Holland and Knight, Tampa Electric, and the Volusia County Courthouse. He has completed five major public murals across Florida, including the Sulphur Springs Mural, the largest of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; margin-bottom: 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/john-gurbacs\" style=\"color: #ff1e8a; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eExplore more works by John Gurbacs →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Marcolina's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45131561238847,"sku":"JG20230501","price":3200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/2773\/6639\/files\/FOUR_EYES_john_gurbacs.png?v=1786035836","url":"https:\/\/marcolinas.com\/products\/four-eyes-john-gurbacs","provider":"Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}