The DKS - Barnaby Whitfield at Stux

Douglas Kelley interviews NY artist Barnaby Whitfield about the vivid symbolism in his show "Ah For A Man to Arise in Me / That the Man I Am May Cease to Be" at Stefan Stux Gallery.

"Whitfields works are at once hopelessly romantic and urgently contemporary. His work simultaneously pulls inspiration from Rococo era portraiture and contemporary fashion advertising. He seamlessly weaves cleverly appropriated Old-Master quotations with images sifted spontaneously from internet sources. The result is works loaded with inside jokes that belong to our twenty-first century psyche. Whitfields characters are rendered in gorgeously soft and dreamy pastel, their bodies glowing with eerie internal light, but perversely marred with sickly hues that allude to bruising, rotting, sweltering flesh. Something menacing seems to have a grip on these pastel beauties and the narrative clues are compellingly composed to allow the viewer partial access but ultimate suspense. The indecipherability of Whitfield's highly personal symbolism begins to breakdown as clues to the artist's appropriations surface, illuminating the development of his personal artistic vocabulary. " - Stefan Stux Gallery press release.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• the douglas kelley show
• gender politic in art
• barnaby whitfield
• stux gallery
• chelsea
• portraits
• pastels

[mollbud4]

Brilliant! Your Best DWK! Please Come Back.

[scooterlaforge]

your the cutest in the world barnaby