Philip Ayers "Paintings"
The Painting Center
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The Painting Center presents an exhibit of paintings by Philip Ayers. This exhibit, entitled “Philip Ayers, Paintings: History in Nature” contains works from the 1990s to the present. There is a catalogue and essay by Kenneth Gross, Professor of English at the University of Rochester, to accompany the exhibit. Quoting from the catalogue essay by Kenneth Gross: "...These large, restless paintings make of their 'anxiety' something larger than the merely personal, although you might be hard pressed to say what that is. They speak to some strange collision of the historical and natural worlds, they seem to witness time as a process that involves both growth and decay; they are full of a sense of both historical ruin and continual re-building or repair. In their combination of constructedness and fragmentation they might recall the allegorical architecture of some Renaissance fresco or print, but they are in the end what Angus Fletcher has called 'allegories without allegory,' images in which you may sense hidden stories and secrets, but without any single authority or master-text to decode them, to give you their grammar of meaning... Looking long at these paintings has a curious effect when you walk again into the ordinary day. Commonplace things take a different face. You see a changed invitation in some passage of sunlit windows, in the facade of a brownstone glimpsed through trees, in the view of a car parked next to a dumpster full of construction debris, or in a glimpsed wedge of sky intruding between buildings. You see these things differently and you remember them differently."
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Schedule
from October 04, 2011 to October 29, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-10-06 from 18:00 to 20:00