Ross Chisholm Exhibition
Marc Jancou Contemporary
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Ross Chisholm deconstructs traditional notions of portraiture by meticulously painting figures from found photographs and art reproductions, and then interrupting them with visual breaks in the form of geometric abstractions, loose brushwork, and thick dabs of paint. Using found, 35 mm slides of English families on holiday, and historical paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries as source material, Chisholm distorts and isolates the figures until a fixed sense of time and place is rendered ambiguous. The strange worlds that emerge fracture the representational nature of painting, further questioning the way in which memory and nostalgia are represented.
[Image: Ross Chisholm "Henrietta, Countess of Warwick Without Her Children. Replaced. 1787" (2009) Oil on linen, 11.81 x 7.87 in.]
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Schedule
from June 18, 2009 to July 31, 2009