Beast Master
Alexis Rockman paints like Rembrandt and thinks like Darwin. He doesn't just make art - he remakes natural history. Rockman may be the only artist to call Charles Darwin a mentor and the late Stephen Jay Gould a fan. He's referred to himself as a paleogeek and favors two styles of painting: vast, lush, prehistoric landscapes that reinterpret our ecological past; and fantastic still lifes that recast our evolutionary future.