Judy Glantzman “Dressing for the Carnival”
Betty Cuningham Gallery
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Betty Cuningham Gallery opens its 2015-2016 season with the work of New York based artist, Judy Glantzman. The solo exhibition, titled after the Winslow Homer painting, Dressing for the Carnival, will be Glantzman’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.
The exhibition includes approximately fifty small paintings (ranging in size of 6 x 6 inches to 10 x 10 inches), six folded large drawings on paper and two gridded collages. In the small paintings, Glantzman sources images from Homer’s painting as well as from portraits by Jacques-Louis David or stock photos of TV personalities such as Columbo (TV detective), or simply head shots of people on the street. She paints the same portrait repeatedly, finding that each painting revealed a new personality. She refers to these small canvases as “the actors” as they take on her voice. The six folded drawings are done over several months, each drawing a square portion of the whole, often worked on while she commuted to her teaching job. She paints or draws every image that captures her eye, layering images upon images, month after month, resulting in a visual record of time. She refers to these folded drawings as “the calendar.” The two larger collages are, for Glantzman, “the Grand Stage.” In these, she pulls from the small paintings and the images from folded drawings as if all were her vocabulary, joining together to complete the opera.
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Schedule
from September 09, 2015 to October 17, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-09-09 from 18:00 to 20:00
The artist will be present.