Robert Schwartz Exhibition
Driscoll Babcock Galleries
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Robert Schwartz provides a portal into a world of emerging gay culture and social upheaval of the 1960s, seeking to expose truths about the human condition by depicting people involved in curious behaviors set in a world of his own invention. The 10 exquisite paintings in this exhibition represent the first major presentation of the late San Francisco-based artist’s work since 2005 and are accompanied by an exhibition brochure with an essay by art journalist and critic Carol Kino.
Robert Schwartz (1947–2000) painted detailed cross sections of a world where characters move about in the ironic overlaps of incongruous realities. With an intricacy often compared to that of medieval miniatures, each of Schwartz’s paradoxical narratives is expertly composed in a space rarely exceeding 10 inches wide—inviting close examination of his intriguing, yet revealing social scenarios.
[Image: Robert Schwartz "Living on Grasshoppers" (1990) gouache on paper 8 x 8.5 in.]
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Schedule
from September 08, 2011 to October 07, 2011