Graham Durward Exhibition
Louis B. James Gallery
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Durward’s paintings in oil on linen render formally the intangibility and ephemerality of desire. He works primarily in three veins: portraiture, still life, and art historical devotional imagery, and treats each subject to the same interplay of abstraction and representation, obscurity and clarity. The portraits are culled from the Internet and display anonymous men who have obscured their own faces with crude Photoshop technology. The painterly violence of erasure, with oil paint mimicking digital drawing, lends a darkness to the subjects’ advertisements of desire. Durward’s still lives bear a tenuous relationship to the tradition; based on photographs taken by the artist, they depict the smoke from incense and candles, fixing in time the fluidity of the incorporeal. His sacred imagery, here the Shroud of Turin and the Sistine Chapel dissolved to abstraction, similarly engage the impossibility of the depiction of immateriality in paint.
Graham Durward studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Whitney Independent Study program.
[Image: Graham Durward "U" (2011) oil on linen 20 x 22 in.]
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Schedule
from January 15, 2012 to February 25, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-01-15 from 16:00 to 19:00