NYAB Event - Marion Peck "What You Are, So Once Were We"

Marion Peck "What You Are, So Once Were We"

Sloan Fine Art

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With "What You Are Now, So Once Were We," Marion Peck takes inspiration from photographic portraiture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and a Victorian sensibility, to challenge our contemporary relationship with death. As she explains, “Looking into the face of a stranger, someone who had a name, someone who lived a life and then died long ago, I am filled with a strange sensation. It is as though I am looking at a ghost. There is a connection between me, one of the living, and them, one of the dead.” By marrying this emotional, connective response with her exquisite technique and fastidious attention to detail, Marion Peck has created an exhibition that both honors the dead and engages the living. Two powerful, complex, larger scale works, the painting “Good Christian Children” and mixed media sculpture “Solve et Coagula,” are complimented by a multitude of smaller, hauntingly beautiful sepia-toned portraits while the entire gallery is staged with black velvet walls, a church altarpiece and fresh lilies. The overall effect is not sadness, but rather the feeling of being enveloped in an environment of quiet reverence and fond affection. The viewer is encouraged to slow down, take pause, and experience each individual, lovingly executed work while considering the artist's message that, "Remembering those who came before us is what makes us truly alive."

[Image: Marion Peck “Colette” (2010) oil and encaustic on panel 16.5 x 16.5 in.]

Media

• Painting
• Sculpture

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