Lisa Zwerling "The Fountains"
First Street Gallery
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Lisa Zwerling’s large painting The Fountain of Youth reflects her interest in age and aging. Lucas Cranach’s Fountain of Youth in Berlin was the inspiration; however, in her version, Zwerling uses models, young and old, of both sexes. Cranach has the men carrying only old women to the Fountain. In Cranach’s world the men need no improvement, but old women definitely need rejuvenation. In Zwerling’s painting, both sexes take the plunge.
The Fountain of Youth is dedicated to the memory of the five Robinson brothers: the artist’s father David and her four uncles Samuel, Julius, Irving, and Ephraim. Irving appears in The Fountain of Youth as the old man carried by the young man on the far left of the painting.
The show includes many other fountain paintings. Battlefront Fountain and Crash at the Fountain are smoke filled visions of war zones. The gentler images are most often done directly from Paris fountains, but frequently the fountains are composites from Paris, Versailles, Moscow, Peterhof, Salzburg, and Rome.
[Image: Lisa Zwerling "Battlefront Fountain" (2008) oil on panel, 17 x 17 in.]
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Schedule
from October 06, 2009 to October 31, 2009
Artist talk: Saturdays, October 17 and 24 from 2 - 3
Opening Reception on 2009-10-08 from 18:00 to 20:00