“People Staring” Exhibition

Kravets/Wehby Gallery

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Kravets Wehby Gallery presents People Staring, an exhibition featuring the work of Alison Blickle, James Busby, Sydney Chastain-Chapman, Asad Faulwell, Stan Narten, Charlie Roberts, Justin Samson, and Devan Shimoyama.

Alison Blickle creates luminous paintings in jewel tones and dramatic hues. Gorgeous figures and lux environments are deconstructed by bold patterns overlaying one another. Her use of ceramics adds yet another dimension to the paintings.

James Busby emplors techniques of drawing and grid making to create mirror like surfaces pushing them into depths of extreme space and fluidity.

Sydney Chastain-Chapman’s work depicts girlish interpretation of luxury. Behind the calm, refined faces of her subjects, the paintings diagram the awkwardness of daily life.

Asad Faulwell champions the bravery of the women of Algeria, who fought to defend and liberate their countries. There is a tense contrast between the western tradition of realistic rendering of the face and the intricate practice of patternmaking in the Middle East.

Wendell Gladstone’s work is driven by a desire to create a narrative. This collection of imagery becomes a personally driven mythology geared towards understanding symbolism, allegory and re-contextualization.

Stan Narten’s paintings contain a didactic and materialist value of historical work becoming re-contextualized into enigmatic paintings that are both open-ended and highly intentional.

Charlie Roberts’ has carved his most ambitious totem pole to date. He draws from a well of inspiration from Picasso and Matisse to Keith Haring.

Justin Samson is reviving and destroying ancient greek mythological characters for his architecturally collaged paintings made with fiberplast.

Devan Shimoyama’s work reimagines figures to find themselves echoed throughout the paintings, attempting to connect, but failing to join and fulfill their sensual desires within these dreamscapes.

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