Jamie Wyeth "Seven Deadly Sins"
Adelson Galleries
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For more than 40 years, Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946) has attracted attention with his paintings of subjects and places that have mesmerized him: life on his Pennsylvania farm; the surroundings of his island home in Maine; the scene around Andy Warhol's Factory in New York City and elsewhere. Since 2005, Wyeth has been at work interpreting, among other subjects, time-honored biblical tradition, and the results will be seen in Seven Deadly Sins: The Recent Work of Jamie Wyeth, an exhibition and sale of approximately 30 new works. As an ensemble, these works create a portrait of the artist today and tap into our culture-with all its frailties and moral ambiguities-in an inescapably uneasy manner
In the series of works that comprise The Seven Deadly Sins, as in many of his paintings, the artist uses seagulls to represent the human condition. Of these birds he has said, "What I love about gulls is what most people dislike about gulls: I love the fact that they're scavengers, they're garbage pickers, they're pirates…. Living on this island, I'm able to completely tune into them." In these chilling and graphic works, for instance, we see two birds with beaks open in screams of Anger¸ another bird's distended throat as it tries to consume a fish in Gluttony and a grisly spectacle of birds swarming carrion while the foreground bird is sedentary in Sloth.
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from March 14, 2008 to April 18, 2008