“My Big Fat Painting” Exhibition

Brian Morris Gallery

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A construction worker sitting on a girder high atop the city at the almost completed Freedom Tower drops a knitting needle while doing his daily knitting at lunch. The needle drops perilously 104 stories below to where a 5 year old girl is enjoying her ice cream cone. It lands smack dab in the middle of her top scoop of pistachio. Only mildly startled, the little girl carefully removes the needle and looks upward from whence it has come, and holding the needle before her eyes, instantly recognizes it as being an exact replica of the needle tower that sits atop the building she is standing next to. And she also realizes, that from her perspective, her needle is a lot larger.

MY BIG FAT PAINTING is an exhibition about scale, that is, the relation of the part (be it a mark, brushstroke, shape, depicted object or even a sense of space) to the whole of the painting. One of the more difficult feats for a painter to achieve, I think, is the ability to make a small painting appear large. Rembrandt, for example, was a master at this, creating a vast sense of space in his small etchings. The premise of this show is to present painters whose work often features a large scale, even when working on a small size.

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from October 18, 2014 to November 23, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-10-18 from 18:00 to 20:00

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