Jake Berthot "Artist Model, Angels Putti, Poetry Visual Prose, works on paper"

Betty Cuningham Gallery

poster for Jake Berthot "Artist Model, Angels Putti, Poetry Visual Prose, works on paper"

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The exhibition will include 32 works on paper and according to Berthot these drawings are not preparatory for painting, as is true of his recent, well known landscape drawings. They stand alone as his own personal visual vocabulary. As the title for the show indicates, the works divide into three categories: 1. Artist and Model, 2. Angels and Putti and 3. Poetry and Visual Prose. Berthot did several Artist Model drawings in 1986 and then revisited this theme in 2005-7. In these drawings he explores the relationship between an artist and his models: the dilemma of a blank canvas, the focus on the voluptuous model or a bow to earlier masters. They are, in the high art sense, classical cartoons. The Angel and Putti works honor masters of past generations such as, Tiepolo, Raphael or Puvis de Chavannes. And finally the last category, Poetry and Visual Prose, deals with line as meaning and letters as drawing, where Berthot blends his own poetry in to the line on the page. The works on paper are in ink wash and gesso; they range in size from 18 x 9 inches to 23 x 35 inches, and they are selected by the artist from works of the last 25 years.

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Schedule

from July 05, 2012 to August 10, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-07-12 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Jake Berthot

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