Aspects of a New Kind of Realism is curated by Michael Klein. The curator believes realism continues to play a crucial part in painting today, but it is now augmented by an emphasis on the process with which the paintings are made. He feels that for many artists, including those in the group exhibition, there is a quite conscious choice of content that reflects more than just a still life or portrait; that their ambition is to “present through painting ideas that suggest and suppose and present painting as a means by which questions can be raised and observations made about and for a contemporary audience.”
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The White series showcases seasoned master Dale Chihuly’s relentless pursuit to expand his highly original language of glass. As one of the greatest colorists in the history of the medium, his genius includes the application of colors in different sequences, mixing opaque with transparent, thus manipulating light as it travels through the glass.
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In recent years Brooklyn-based still-life artist Richard Baker has painted true to size interpretations of vintage paperback book covers, particularly classic covers from the 1950s through the 1970s including literary luminaries such as Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and William Faulkner. More recently, Baker has also begun painting classic record album covers.
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Using an insider’s bag of tricks and trade lingo, Waters celebrates the excess of the movie industry. Word and image play permeate Waters’ work, and the movie industry and its various sleights of hand are a common target. Always ambitious and playful, some of the works are condensed narratives or “little movies” as Waters calls them.
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Steve Rucker’s “Focus Group,” a ceramic and mixed media installation references the billions of dollars spent on advertising the varied products, including medications and even wars, which are initially shown to focus groups in order to refine marketing strategies.
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Elemore Morgan, Jr., was acknowledged for many years as the leading contemporary Louisiana landscape painter. He was especially renowned for his “en plein air” landscape paintings done in the heart of the rice growing region of southwest Louisiana. Many of Morgan’s landscapes were done in acrylic on oddly shaped Masonite panels, cut to fit his vision of the land, which he felt were integral to the design and composition of his works.
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“Postcards from Plaquemines” is an endeavor to give those who have never seen Grand Bayou a sense of what it’s like; and, for those who have been there, the artist intends this body of work as an homage to a glorious and disappearing environment.
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Dave Greber’s colorful new work Stilllives is a seamless high definition video loop which features a deconstructed still life which is in a constant state of flux.
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In this exhibition Kevin Jones presents work that conceptually examines systems found in scientific investigation, specifically the periodic table of elements.
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In Dawn DeDeaux’s “Unseen,” the works range from sculpture to photographs and expand the considerations of reality and time.
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