Sight Revamped
- When
- Event has passed (Fri Nov 23, 2007 - Sun Dec 16, 2007)
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- Galleries, Painting & Drawing
Description
Painters Rachel Dawson and Marty McCorkle revamp the stale rules of representational painting in a “Sight Revamped,” a group exhibition at Esteban Sabar Gallery from November 20th to December 16th, 2007.Both Dawson and McCorkle break up images in their different ways to piece them back together freshly and unexpectedly without mending the gaps, throwing out some of painting’s visual conventions along the way.
The Artists:
Rachel Dawson - Painting
One is taken aback by the circuitous steps that Rachel Dawson employs to complete a painting. Beginning her process by taking photographs of her subject, Dawson goes on to tear up the printed photograph, loosely crumpling and composing the pieces. She then paints the composition of photographic tatters onto canvas, wrinkles, reflections, tears and all.
The slightly disorienting effect of the fragmented images is a visually dynamo. Dawson presents nuanced narratives of unrelated images and colors as well as grandly scaled portraits of friends.
Marty McCorkle – Painting
Partially transparent figures and a refreshing disregard for painting “inside the lines” marks Marty McCorkle’s paintings of human figures and landscapes.
One is initially tempted consign McCorkle to the dusty tomb of cubism for his use of “scaffold” shapes to compose objects in his paintings, but he departs from any familiar style through distinctly muscled, minimal brushstrokes of paint to describe the human figure convincingly but unfamiliarly.
McCorkle confidently paints within the rift between representation and abstraction, freshly pulling a rabbit out of painting’s seemingly exhausted hat.
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