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The Photorealists
The Center for the Arts welcomes visitors to question reality this
summer when it brings a fascinating major exhibition of over three dozen
Photorealist paintings and sculpture to its 4,500 sq. ft. Holmes Gallery.
The exhibition The Photorealists opens to the public on Saturday,
July 22 and continues through Sunday, September 10, 2000. (left:
Tom Blackwell, Swimwear, 1998, oil on masonite, 42 x 62 inches, On
loan from Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York)
Popular
in the United States and Great Britain from the 1960's, Photorealism (also
called Super Realism) is still going strong today. Photorealist painting
technique, as revealed in 
the Center's exhibition depicts subjects, such as
city streets, diners, pin ball machines, mobile homes, show horses, people,
and motor vehicles, with an impersonal exactitude of detail. Artists who
practice the style work from photographs, recreating on canvas the all-over
sharpness of the camera lens, except where out-of-focus effects are faithfully
recorded. (left: Ron Kleemann, Pecker Heads, 1997, oil on
linen, 72 x 50 inches, On loan from a private collection; right: Robert
Cottingham, Great Northern, 1998, oil on linen, 78 x 78 inches, On
loan from a private collection)
The Photorealists exhibition
combines the work of well known artists Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, Davis
Cone,
Robert Cottingham, Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings,
Richard McLean, and John Salt with young practitioners Don Jacot, Kim Mendenhall,
and Reynard Milici. The exhibition also includes an example of Photorealist
sculpture by John De Andrea. Lenders to the exhibition are Louis K. Meisel
Gallery, New York; Midtown Payson Galleries, Hobe Sound, Florida; Nancy
Hoffman Gallery, New York; O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, and artist
Davis Cone of Miami Beach, Florida. (left: Audrey Flack, Queen,
1976, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80 inches, On loan from a private collection)
The exhibition was curated by Ellen Fischer, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Center for the Arts.
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