Ed Rath “Sacred, Profane, Mundane”

NohoM55 Gallery

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The paintings in this exhibition address themes known to us from the canon of art history – the temporal nature of the world, the fragility of life, the senselessness of cruelty, suffering and death. Ed Rath expresses these themes through personification and parody. His animated trees bypass the idealization of the human figure and express raw emotion by aping human poses. Branches become hair and arms, bark - skin, knots and holes – eyes. These long- suffering soulless beings bear their crosses in silence while they enact the great narratives of art history.