“The Unstilllife: A Celebration of the Eccentric Possibilities of Still Life” Exhibition
The Painting Center
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The Painting Center is pleased to present The Unstilllife celebrating the eccentric possibilities of still life. Trevor Winkfield has collaborated with Zeuxis in organizing this exhibition, which includes works by guest artists Tom Burckhardt, Owen Gray, Elliott Green, Matthew Lopas, Mary Jo Vath and Trevor Winkfield along with the Zeuxis artists. Since 1995 Zeuxis, an association of still life painters, has organized dozens of group shows in New York City and around the country.
Trevor Winkfield shows at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. He writes frequently on art and co-founded the journal The Sienese Shredder. In the essay for the publication accompanying the exhibition, he frames the theme this way:
Early Modernism surreptitiously introduced two new perplexities into the viewer’s mind: “What is it?” swiftly followed by “Where am I”. Contemporary cartoonists showed puzzled viewers standing on their heads in order to make better sense of what they were looking at. Suddenly, right and left, top and bottom became interchangeable, figuration morphed into abstraction, then morphed back again, all within the same painting. While not demanding gymnastics, our show proposes a similar challenge: can a still life be a face, or even a body? Can a basket of fruit suggest a hillside? Does a single stick of chalk constitute a still life? And does a still life always have to be set upon a table, or can it, like certain Cotans, be suspended from the ceiling? The permutations—and challenges— should be endless, for as the saying goes, the world is your oyster.
Artists include: Rita Baragona, Temma Bell, Tom Burckhardt, Richard Castellana, Susan Cohen, Bevin Engman, Phyllis Floyd, John Goodrich, Owen Gray, Elliott Green, Elizabeth Higgins, Tim Kennedy, Deborah Kirklin, Matt Klos, Carmela Kolman, Richard La Presti, John Lee, Ying Li, Sydney Licht, Matthew Lopas, Anthony Martino, Margaret McCann, Stephanie Rauschenbusch, Stephanie Sanchez, Sandra Stone, Gwen Strahle, Sheldon Tapley, Ian Tornay, Mary Jo Vath, Megan Williamson, and Trevor Winkfield.
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Schedule
from February 28, 2017 to March 25, 2017
Artist(s)
Rita Baragona, Temma Bell, Tom Burckhardt, Richard Castellana, Susan Cohen, Bevin Engman, Phyllis Floyd, John Goodrich, Owen Gray, Elliott Green, Elizabeth Higgins, Tim Kennedy, Deborah Kirklin, Matt Klos, Carmela Kolman, Richard La Presti, John Lee, Ying Li, Sydney Licht, Matthew Lopas, Anthony Martino, Margaret McCann, Stephanie Rauschenbusch, Stephanie Sanchez, Sandra Stone, Gwen Strahle, Sheldon Tapley, Ian Tornay, Mary Jo Vath, Megan Williamson, Trevor Winkfield