Everest Hall and Sean Capone "Still Life & Motion"
DCKT Contemporary
This event has ended.
Everest Hall’s latest graphite, ink and watercolor on paper works are images of in-studio tableaux of fresh cut flowers in bloom, personal props and mementos. Hall continues his exploration of the still life genre, setting up the images in layers as if they are floating. Hall often incorporates an image of the back of a stretched canvas to signify the internal life or soul of the artwork. The clash and combination of soft and hard is realized with lush irises and lilies juxtaposed with graphic abstractions and geometric repetitions.
Everest Hall received his MFA in painting from Yale University.
In Sean Capone’s new digital video animations, sensuous floral arabesques and decorative gestures bloom, morph, decay and bloom again in an endless cycle of birth, death and renewal. Based on visual systems that draw upon the aesthetics of baroque exuberance, painterly abstraction and rhythm as well as the grammar of ornament, Capone addresses the often overwhelming digital landscape we now continuously inhabit. Capone also explores the historical relationship between art, nature and the emotional response of the viewer to the images' cycle of beauty, efflorescence and decay.
Sean Capone received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
[Image: Sean Capone "Pink Narcissus" (2011) digital HD video 5:20]
Media
Schedule
from June 24, 2011 to July 23, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-06-23 from 18:00 to 20:00