Eleanor Moreton "The Ladies of Shalott"

Jack Hanley

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The Jack Hanley Gallery presents The Ladies of Shalott, a solo exhibition of paintings by Eleanor Moreton. Painting with a savior faire tempered by the hand of introspection, Eleanor Moreton lays the pictorial and figural tradition bare in a haze of its own mythology. Bleak saturation and reverent hues consume the canvas. Layered strokes cut back on themselves allowing the painter's past to seep through her final coat of oil. Unlike John William Waterhouse s narrative depiction of the Arthurian legend, Moreton's Ladies of Shalott is the moment of the turn of the head, of the cracked mirror. In her revision, an ever-festering malady is forged.

Half sick of shadows, as legend has it, high up in her prison tower, the Lady of Shalott is cursed to experience the world through the mirror placed before her. No longer able to withstand such a fate, the lady turns to see what has forever existed behind her--the mirror cracks. With a blurred vision, somewhere between the realm of shadows and the realm of flesh, the lady takes three paces through the room and it is in this fleeting moment before evitable demise that Moreton s work lingers. She paints monochromatic rooms of green plagued to slip away, regal figures of indiscernible gender, and gaunt landscapes dedicated to Austrian painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Historical events, fables, memories, literature and found images collapse in on themselves and become symptoms of a faceless malady that when viewing Moreton s Ladies of Shalott we too are stricken by.

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Schedule

from December 10, 2010 to January 05, 2011

Opening Reception on 2010-12-10 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Eleanor Moreton

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