Alex Abdilla, Fiona Ackerman, Shannon Belkin, Phil Borges, Jesse
Garbe, Angela Grossmann, Kathryn Jacobi, Nick Lepard, Attila
Richard Lukacs, Xue Mo, Justin Ogilvie
June 7-30, 2007
Artist reception: Thursday June 7, 6-8 pm
The history of portrayal spans the course of Western art from
ancient Egyptian and Greek civilizations to the modern art of
Europe and North America. The genre remains alive and vibrant
today. The Diane Farris Gallery is pleased to present a unique
show of portraits in various mediums and styles by gallery artists
and invited guests.
Phil Borges photographs tribal people around
the world: displaced Tibetans, drought-stricken East Africans,
the Kalash of Pakistan, and indigenous peoples of the Upper
Amazon and North America. At the other end of the cultural spectrum,
The Yellow Room by Kathryn Jacobi suggests
the proud continuum of European culture as transmitted through
its music. Angela Grossmann creates nostalgic
composites of imagined people using oil, ink, collage and photography.
Using the monkey as a metaphor for primitive consciousness,
Attila Richard Lukacs explores the baser side
of humanity in a piece from his Primate Series.
The mesmerizing gazes of adolescent males by Nick Lepard
point directly at the viewer, while Xue Mo's
delicate portraits of Oriental women have the intoxicating mystery
of the Mona Lisa. Shannon Belkin, Justin
Ogilvie and Jesse Garbe are influenced
by the painting techniques and subject matter of European old
masters. Belkin's highly realistic horses recall the 18th and
19th Centuries when animal portraits were fashionable. Ogilvie’s
stunning images of bodies in space show the stylistic influences
of DaVinci and Lucien Freud. The narrative portraits of Rembrandt,
Kathe Kollwitz and Euan Uglow inspired Garbe’s poignant
portrait of his art dealer.
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Nick Lepard, From Milan to Vienna
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