Gregory Scott’s Outside the Frame mixed media work is more fun than walking through one of the old fun houses at the state fair or a mystery spot along the highway leading to a popular vacation site.
Gregory Scott’s ingenious painting-photo-video amalgams use humor to help blur the lines between mediums.
What would surrealist René Magritte be doing if he were alive today? I bet he would be doing pretty much what Chicago-based artist Gregory Scott is doing.
Recent Work by Whitfield Lovell and Visions From the South BY ERIC D. BOOKHARDT Excerpt: Whitfield Lovell collects old photographs of African-Americans, often decked out in their best suits and…
Whitfield Lovell collects old photographs of African-Americans, often decked out in their best suits and posed formally before the camera. Displaying fine draftsmanship, he recreates their images on wooden planks and then incorporates antique symbolic objects in his eloquent sculptural assemblages. Deuce is emblematic: A black couple from a century ago posed with a Victorian chair. Extending from the front of the sepia wooden planks is a tabletop covered in antique lace and vintage silverware. The vintage objects and eerily photographic images contribute to a resonant sense of “presence” that allows us entry into a time and place different from our own, yet so familiar that we can readily relate.
Shifting gears, in James Drake’s grand baroque theater drawing, Dancing in the Louvre, the elegantly simulated moldings mediate the viewer’s imaginative transgression of the proscenium plane. The gown that overflows into the foreground space, the dynamic diagonal and counterpoint of the dancers’ elegantly dressed forms, and the two point perspective defined by the pedestal at the left and the voyeur couple on the right serves to establish a continuum from the viewer’s real world space through the fore,
middle, and implied distance.
March 2010 Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery
For over 40 years, American artist James Surls (born 1943) has used sculpture and drawing as a personal language to document his life journey.
Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of mixed media on wood assemblages by Whitfield Lovell. The exhibition will be on view March 6th – April 17th at Arthur Roger Gallery located at 432 Julia Street. An opening reception will be hosted by the gallery on Saturday, March 6th from 6 to 8 pm.
