Sam Thurston Exhibition

Blue Mountain Gallery

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Sam Thurston will exhibit eight wood sculptures of archetypal figures: five recent and three older to give conceptual context. Thurston is also exhibiting paintings of New York City street scenes depicting Fourteenth Street, Brooklyn Bridge, Long Island City and Queens Plaza. The artist says of his work:

When I use the image of the human body in sculpture I simultaneously resist its reality and embrace its reality. Resist it because I really want to show my self- not a dumb, inert, academic reality. But I need to embrace the real because the real is the only tool with power I can use; if I abandon that tool I am just guessing or using someone else’s idea. My middle way between is to use myth, archetype, story and dance along with looking and intuition. In my cityscapes I find a similar situation – to embrace and reject the real. By working directly from life and from drawings done on site, and continuing to work on them in the studio, and by allowing subjective distortions and narrative to enter I try to balance the two.

Sam Thurston does painting and sculpture, working from life and imagination. Born in 1943 he lived in NYC in the ’60′s and ’70′s, then moved to Vermont. His work has been reviewed by Jed Perl in the New Republic and Ken Johnson in the New York Times, among others.

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Schedule

from January 28, 2014 to February 22, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-01-30 from 17:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Sam Thurston

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